American gardens in the eighteenth century
Subtitle: "for use or for delight"; with illustrations of the period.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1976
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 514
ISBN-13: 9780395247648
Copyright date: 1976
Subjects: Gardening -- United States -- History.; Plants, Cultivated -- United States -- History.
Notes: Bibliography, p. 493-503.
Companion volumes by Ann Leighton: Early American Gardens "For Meate or Medicine", American Gardens of the Nineteenth Century "For Comfort and Affluence".
Author's full name: Isadore Leighton Luce Smith - title page verso.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Like birds on a gate; title: "All was Virginia"; title: "Seed of a nation"; title: Voyages to Carolina; title: Naturalists and botanists; title: Gardeners and collectors; title: American husbandry; title: "Every man his own doctor"; title: Eighteenth-century American vegetables; title: Fruits; title: "Rid to all my plantations"; title: "To be got when I can"; title: Catalogues and lists; title: Landskip and offskip; title: The American way; title: An appendix of the plants most frequently cultivated in eighteenth-century American gardens; title: Collinson's list of seeds and plants; title: Bibliography