The Pleasure Gardens of Virginia
Subtitle: From Jamestown to Jefferson
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University Press of Virginia
Published: November 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780813920535
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Gardens (descriptions, history etc); Landscape art & architecture; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; History: American; Landscape Horticulture; Virginia - Local History; Gardening; Gardening / Horticulture; Virginia; Garden Design; Regional - South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA; General; United States - State & Local - General; Gardens; History
First sentence: On one of the first days after his landing in the New World in May 1607, George Percy, a member of the original Jamestown settlement, excitedly recorded seeing in the forests, fields, and swamps "ground all flowing over with fair flowers of sundry colors and kinds, as though it had been any garden or orchard in England."1