Title: American gardens in the eighteenth century : "for use or for delight" /
Authors: Leighton, Ann, 1902?-1985.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin,
Year: 1976
Subjects: Gardening United States History.; Plants, Cultivated United States History.
Contents: Introduction: Like Birds on a Gate -- "All Was Virginia" -- "Seed of a Nation" -- Voyages to Carolina -- Naturalists and Botanists -- Gardeners and Collectors -- American Husbandry -- "Every Man His Own Doctor" -- Eighteenth-Century American Vegetables -- Fruits -- "Rid to All My Plantations" -- "To Be Got When I Can" -- Catalogues and Lists -- Landskip and Offskip -- The American Way -- An Appendix of the Plants Most Frequently Cultivated in Eighteenth-Century American Gardens -- Collinson's List of Seeds and Plants -- Bibliography -- Index.