NEW ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GARDENING

America’s Gardens

Unabridged

GREYSTONE PRESS, New York (1964)

204-page hardback book chock full of information and illustration of some of America’s finest gardens. Marvelous color illustrations and photos. Three Sections:

PART I. Visits to America’s Gardens

Some of the gardens include: National Trust properties; Mount Vernon; Colonial Williamsburg; Virginia’s Historic Garden Week; Richmond garden; Gunston Hall; Nelson House; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum courtyard; Old Westbury; Brooklyn Botanic gardens; New York Botanical gardens; Longwood Gardens; New Orleans’ French Quarter; antebellum homes and gardens of Natchez; Descanso gardens at Los Angeles; San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park; the University of Seattles’ Japanes garden; and more….

PART II. Gardens that Specialize

Hammond Museum; Japanese gardens; topiary gardens; wildflower gardens; the Audubon Center of Connecticut; Bowman’s Hill; Rancho Santa Ana; herb gardens; water gardens; rock gardens; container gardens; and Bonsai collections.

PART III. Gardens for All Seasons

Three seasons in the Umberto Innocenti’s garden; gardens of W.R. Coe, Jr.; spring gardens; Sherwood gardens; flowering bulbs; flowering shrubs and trees; peonies and iris; rose gardens; early summer annuals; old-fashioned favorites; the new lilies; perennial borders; summer’s bulbs; hemerocallis; and chrysanthemums.

Index

Acknowledgements

CONDITION: All pages intact, clean and crisp. Shelf wear along upper and bottom spine, tips of corners of cover. Otherwise, great vintage condition.

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