Gardens and culture
Subtitle: eight studies in history and aesthetics.
By: Edited with an introd. by Hannah Disinger Demaray.
Contributors: Beirut College for Women. Alumnae Association.
Publisher: Eastern Press
Published: 1969
Place of publication: Beirut
Language: eng
Number of pages: 145
Subjects: Gardens.
Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.
"Originally these essays were delivered in 1967-68, as a series of lectures for the cultural program of the Alumnae Association at the Beirut College for Women."
Table of contents: title: Gardens of the ancient Near East, by W. Ward.; title: The Japanese garden, by P. Sutton.; title: Ikebana; a floral art, by S. Abu Fadil.; title: Persia: the culture of pleasure gardens, by G. H. Kirkwood.; title: Arabic gardens in Spain, by N. Akrawi.; title: The French garden; medieval to modern, by J. de Vigan with P. Sutton.; title: English gardens, by A. R. Walmsley.; title: The literary gardens of Andrew Marvell and John Milton, by H. D. Demaray.; title: The garden; a poem, by A. Marvell.