American Gardens, 1890-1930: Northeast, Mid-atlantic, And Midwest Regions (Urban and Suburban Domestic Architecture)
The years best garden gift books offer fascinating insights into history. In "American Gardens, 1880-1930" (Acanthus Press, $75.00) scholar Sam Watters uses more than 250 archival photographs to present some of the most remarkable and diverse designs of the period... --Town & Country, December 2006The editor has done a stellar job of presenting a range of designers, both well-known and obscure. American Gardens should serve as a unique visual resource for this great era of landscape architecture for many years to come --Landscape Architecture magazineThe garden voyeur will love this book featuring  photographs of lavish gardens and country homes....  The enviable retreats, from the country estates of American aristocracy like John D. Rockefeller s Hudson River home, evoke thoughts of garden soirees with rose terraces, arbors and gates --Riviera