America's romance with the English garden / Thomas J. Mickey.

"The 1890s saw a revolution in advertising. Cheap paper, faster printing, rural mail delivery, railroad shipping, and chromolithography combined to pave the way for the first modern, mass-produced catalogs. The most prominent of these, reaching American households by the thousands, were seed and nur...

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Main Author: Mickey, Thomas J.
Language:English
Published: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2013], ©2013.
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Physical Description:xxi, 271 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a The British connection -- The English garden influence at Williamsburg -- Early wealthy Americans and their English landscapes -- A short history of the nineteenth-century seed and nursery industries in America -- Garden writing from the seed companies and nurseries -- Social changes affect the seed and nursery industries -- Major themes in the catalogs -- Gardening and the middle class -- The grandest rose of the century -- Landscape design according to the catalogs. 
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