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title	:	American Gardens of the Nineteenth Century : "For Comfort and Affluence"
author	:	Leighton, Ann.
publisher	:	University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin	:	087023532X
print isbn13	:	9780870235320
ebook isbn13	:	9780585231280
language	:	English
subject	Gardening--United States--History--19th century, Gardens, American--History--19th century, Plants, Cultivated--United States--History--19th century.
publication date	:	1987
lcc	:	SB451.3.L46 1987eb
ddc	:	635/.0973
subject	:	Gardening--United States--History--19th century, Gardens, American--History--19th century, Plants, Cultivated--United States--History--19th century.

Page iii American Gardens of the Nineteenth Century "For Comfort and Affluence" Ann Leighton

Page iv Copyright 1987 by Emily Smith Cain All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Set in Linotron Bembo at G & S Typesetters, Inc. Printed by Cushing-Malloy and bound by John Dekker & Sons Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Leighton, Ann, 1902?-1985. American gardens of the nineteenth century. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. GardeningUnited StatesHistory19th century. 2. Gardens, AmericanHistory19th century. 3. Plants, CultivatedUnited StatesHistory19th century. 1. Title. SB451.3.L46 1987 635'.0973 86-11330 ISBN 0-87023-532-x (alk. paper) ISBN 0-87023-533-8 (pbk.: alk. paper)

Page v To my sister, Emily, and my daughter, Emily, and to my daughters-in-law, Jane and Ellen.

Page vii CONTENTS List of Illustrations xi Foreword xv Preview from the Summerhouse 3 Unfamiliar Territory One American Plants and Early American Botanists 15 Two Star of Empire: Botanist-Explorers in the Western Territories 29 Three Those Blessed Visitors: Observers from Abroad 42 Four Free Spirits and Fixed Points 49 Five Seedsmen and Their Nurseries 67 Six Enter the Ladies 83 Seven Societies and Shows 101

Page viii Laying on of Hands Eight Early Links 119 Nine Cemeteries into Parks 134 Ten Principals and Their Principles 144 Eleven Later Links 173 Twelve Greensward into Central Park 186 Thirteen The Final Link: Trees as Keys to Understanding the Value of Natural Resources 196 Domestic Pleasures Fourteen Tracing Outlines of the Past: Living Clues and Eyewitness Accounts 209 Fifteen The Uses of Space, and of Embellishments 228 Sixteen Bedding-out 241 Seventeen Neighboring Improvements 249 Eighteen How to Make Country Places 261

Page ix Nineteen Northern Lights 269 Twenty Specialty Gardens 284 Afterword 296 Appendix: Plants Most Commonly Used in Nineteenth-Century American Gardens 299 Bibliography 381 Index 391

Page xi LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Summerhouse 4 Illustration from seed catalogue 7 Budding's mowing machine 9 Trumpet vine

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