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

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"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.
Subjects:
Gardens, English > United States > History.
Seed industry and trade > United States > History.
Physical Description:xxi, 271 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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.