America's romance with the English garden / Thomas J. Mickey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mickey, Thomas J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gardens, English--United States--History.

Gardens, English.

Seed industry and trade--United States--History.

Seed industry and trade.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The 1890s saw a revolution in advertising. Cheap paper, faster printing, rural mail delivery, railroad shipping, and chromolithography combined to pave the way for the first modern, mass-produced catalogs. The most prominent of these, reaching American households by the thousands, were seed and nursery catalogs with beautiful pictures of middle-class homes surrounded by sprawling lawns, exotic plants, and the latest garden accessories-in other words, the quintessential English-style garden. America's Romance with the English Garden is the story of tastemakers and homemakers, of savvy business

Contents:

The British connection

The English garden influence at Williamsburg

Early wealthy Americans and their English landscapes

A short history of the nineteenth-century seed and nursery industries in America

Garden writing from the seed companies and nurseries

Social changes affect the seed and nursery industries

Major themes in the catalogs

Gardening and the middle class

The grandest rose of the century

Landscape design according to the catalogs.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8214-4452-2

OCLC:

841909763