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1 online resource (pages) |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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 nursery catalogs with beautiful pictures of middle-class homes surrounded by sprawling lawns, exotic plants, and the latest garden accessories-in other words, the quintessential English-style garden. America's Romance with the English Garden is the story of tastemakers and homemakers, of savvy busines. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Gardens, English -- United States -- History.
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Gardens, English. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Seed industry and trade -- United States -- History.
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Seed industry and trade. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mickey, Thomas J. America's romance with the English garden. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, ©2013 9780821420355 (DLC) 2013000593 (OCoLC)822025322 |
| ISBN |
0821444522 (electronic book) |
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9780821444528 (electronic book) |
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9780821420355 (pb ; alkaline paper) |
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0821420356 (pb ; alkaline paper) |
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