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University Press of New England publishes books under its own imprint and is the publisher for Brandeis University Press, Dartmouth College, Middlebury College Press, University of New Hampshire, University of Rhode Island, Tufts University, University of Vermont, Wesleyan University Press, and Salzburg Seminar.
University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 03755 1996 by University Press of New England All rights reserved Printed in Singapore 5 4 3 2 1
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Emmet, Alan. So fine a prospect: historic New England gardens /Alan Emmet. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-87451-749-4 (alk. paper) 1. Historic gardensNew England. 2. GardensNew England History. I. Title. SB466.U65N4825 1996 712'.6'0974dc20 95-36320
Title page spread: Grandmother's Garden, Lydia Field Emmet, oil on canvas, ca. 1912.
(National Academy of Design, New York, New York)
Page v
"The Kingdom of England don't afford so Fine a Prospect as I have." Thomas Hancock, (17021764)
Page vii
Acknowledgments
I could not have completed this book without the support and encouragement of my whole family, and of Ellie Reichlin, Cass Canfield, Harlan Hanson, Sally Brady and the Wednesday group. I am indebted to the late Florence Wolfe who said, "write," and to the late Nicholas King, remembering especially one sunny afternoon on Edith Wharton's terrace.
My favorite people are the librarians and archivists, too many to name, who helped me. I am grateful particularly to Lorna Condon at the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, and to Sally Pierce and indeed to the entire staff of the Boston Athenaeum, that most felicitous of libraries.
OCTOBER 1995 A.E.
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Contents
Introduction: So Fine a Prospect
xi
1. A Race of Cultivators
Theodore Lyman, John Codman, and Other Exemplars of the Pastoral Ideal
1
2. The Conservative Tradition
Gardens of Portsmouth, New Hampshire
14
3. Radishes and Orchids
The Bootts' Garden in Boston
32
4. Ghosts in the Garden
Vaucluse, Portsmouth, Rhode Island
47
5. Brief Dynasty
John Perkins Cushing's Bellmont, Watertown, Massachusetts
57
6. Boxwood and Bunting
Henry Bowen's Roseland, Woodstock, Connecticut
69
7. Family Trees
Wellesley, The Hunnewell Estate
84
8. To Bring Back the Past
The Codmans at The Grange, Lincoln, Massachusetts
101
9. A Little Taste of Everything
Potter's Grove, Arlington, Massachusetts
118
10. On the Isles of Shoals
Celia Thaxter and Her Garden by the Sea
130
11. The Power Landscape
William Seward Webb's Shelburne Farms, Shelburne, Vermont
144
12. The Sculptor Makes a Garden
Daniel Chester French's Chesterwood, Stockbridge, Massachusetts
162
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13. Of Time and the River
The Gardens at Hamilton House, South Berwick, Maine
177
14. The Italian Inspiration
The Garden at Faulkner Farm, Brookline, Massachusetts
191
15. The Great Good Place
Edith Wharton at the Mount, Lenox, Massachusetts
206
16. A New Palette
Eolia, The Harkness Estate, Waterford, Connecticut
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