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American gardens in the eighteenth century : "for use or for delight" / by Ann Leighton.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating SB451.3 .L45 1986
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leighton, Ann, 1902?-1985.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gardening--United States--History--18th century.
- Gardening.
- Gardens, American--History--18th century.
- Gardens, American.
- Plants, Cultivated--United States--History--18th century.
- Plants, Cultivated.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 514 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1986.
- Summary:
- A most entertaining account of the plants and gardens of a fascinating era, based on the letters, journals, invoices, and books of men and women (among them George Washington, Manasseh Cutler, and Jane Colden) who were interested in the discovering, the growing, and the exchanging of plants of the New and Old World. - from review by Library Journal.
- Notes:
- Reprint. Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1976.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 493-503.
- ISBN:
- 0870235311
- OCLC:
- 13396123
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