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Indexes Volume I to III, Fall 1991-Fall 1993

A
American Renaissance Movement, 3:23, 27
Arlington, Massachusetts, 1:21
Arnold Arboretum, 1:41
B
Bassick, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar H., rose garden, 2:48–50
Beautiful, The, 1:4; 3:20; 3:49
Beecher, Henry Ward, 3:51, 52
Begg, Virginia Lopez : Frances Duncan: the "New Woman" in the Garden, 2:29–35
Begg, Virginia Lopez:Influential Friends..L..Y..King and C..S..Sargent, 1:39–45
Bellmont, 1:1–9
Biltmore, 3:2–6
Bok, Edward, 2:33
Brockway, Lucinda : John Hay's Fells Farm, 3:39–47
Brookline, Massachusetts, 1:47, 48
Budding, Thomas, 1:55
C
Cabot, Frank, 2:38–45
Campbell, William, 1:22
Canning, Edward J., 1:21
Century magazine, 2:31, 32
Charles O. Dexter Estate, Sandwich, Massachusetts. see Dexter, Charles O.
Child, Susan:Warren Manning 1860-1938, 1:29–37
Child Associates, 1:33, 35
Children and gardens, 2:33
Cleveland, Horace William Shaler (1814-1900), 3:8–14
Coffin, Marian Cruger (1876-1957), 2:47–52
Concord, Massachusetts public park, 3:13
Copeland, Robert Morris (1830-74), 3:8, 10–14
Cornish, New Hampshire, 2:1, 31, 32
Cushing, John Perkins (1787-1862), 1:1–9
D
Darnell, Margaretta J. The Willows : Edith Wharton and Andrew Jackson Downing, 3:17–22
Dean, Ruth B. (1889-1932), 3:35–38
Dean, Ruth B:The Livable House Its Garden, 3:35, 36
Dexter, Charles O., 2:17, 18
Downing, Andrew Jackson. A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening., 3:17–22, 49
Downing, Andrew Jackson. The Architecture of Country Homes., 3:18–20
Downing, Andrew Jackson (1815-1852)
description of Brookline, Massachusetts, 1:48
description of Holm Lea, 1:22
and The Horticulturist, 3:49
influence on Hudson River Bracketed, 3:17–22
and lawns, 1:55
and the morality of gardening, 3:49–52
and the Picturesque, 2:25, 3:17, 20
visit to Bellmont, 1:2
Duncan, Charles, 2:30
Duncan, Frances, 2:29–35
description of Northcote, 2:2, 8
E
Edgeworth, Maria: The Absentee, 2:26
Ely, Helena Rutherford: A Woman's Hardy Garden, 1:39.40
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882), 3:8, 11–14
Emmet, Alan. Brief Dynasty: John Perkins Cushing's "Bellmont," 1:1–9
Emmet, Alan. Potter's Grove and the Suburban Ideal, 2:20–27
Endicott, H. Wendell (1880-1954), 1:27
Evers, Gustave, 1:8
F
Farrand, Beatrix Jones (1872-1959), 1:11, 13–16, 24
Fells, The, 3:39–47
Fleming, Nancy M. Marian Coffin and the Roses in Her Landscapes., 2:47–52
Frick, Mrs. Childs, rose garden, 2:50
Frost, Paul Rubens (1883 - 1957)
and Gwinn, 3:29
life and career, 2:10–19
G
Gallagher, Percival, 2:17
Ganong, William F., 1:21
Garden Book of Alexander Hamilton Ladd, 1:59–61
Garden Club of America, 1:42
Garden writing, 2:29
Gardening and women, 3:51, 52
Gilder, Richard Watson, 2:31, 32
Greenhouses, 1:5
Gwinn, 3:23–33
H
Haggerston, David, 1:7, 8
Handlin, David P.:The American Home, 1:57
Hay, Alice Appleton, 3:42–45
Hay, Clarence, 3:42–45
Hay, John (1838-1905), 3:39–42
and Abraham Lincoln, 3:39
Hay, John II, 3:45, 46
Henderson, Peter, 1:60
Heritage Plantation. see Dexter, Charles O.
Higginson, Stephen, 1:47
Hill, Anna Gilman: Forty Years of Gardening, 1:40
Holm Lea, 1:22–24
Hutchinson, B. June: The Importance of Seeing Green, 1:55–57
I
Imagist poetry, 1:51
Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary, 1:24
Irving, Washington: "Legend of Sleepy Hollow," 3:9, 11
J
Jack, John George, 1:24
Jensen, Jens, 3:35
Judge Seth Gage Garden, Weathersfield, Vermont, 2:11, 12
K
Karson, Robin:Gwinn: ... by Charles A. Platt and Warren H. Manning, 3:23–33
Keyes, John, 3:10
Kiley, Dan, 1:29
King, Louisa Yeomans (1863-1948), 1:38–44
Klaus, Susan L. "Such Inheritance as I Can Give You" : ....FLO, Jr., 3:1–7
L
La Libellulle, 2:38, 39
Ladd, Alexander Hamilton (1815-1900), 1:58–62
Ladies' Home Journal, 2:33
Lawns, 1:55–57
Lee, Thomas, 1:22
Les Quatre Vents, 2:36–45
Lincoln, Abraham, 3:39
Linn, Eve F. W.: Comfortable Haven: the garden writing of Ruth B. Dean, 3:35–38
Longfellow Park, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2:12–14
Loudon, John Claudius, 1:55
Lowell, Amy (1874-1925), 1:46–53
Lowell, Augustus, 1:47, 48, 51
Lowthorpe School, 1:43
M
Manning, Jacob, 1:29
Manning, Warren (1860-1938)
career, 1:29–37, 3:3
and Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr., 3:3, 24
and Gwinn, 3:3, 23–33
Massachusetts Horticultural Society
awards to Charles Sander, 1:23
awards to John Perkins Cushing, 1:6
financial help for Horticulture magazine, 1:42
George Robert White medal to Charles Sprague Sargent, 1:39
George Robert White medal to Louisa Yeomans King, 1:39
Jackson Dawson medal to Paul R. Frost, 2:17
letters of Charles Sprague Sargent, 1:39
Mather, William Gwinn (1857-1951), 3:23, 26
Mathews, Edward James, 2:37, 44
McGuire, Diane Kostial : Sermon on "The Mount," 1:11–17
McMahon, Bernard, 1:55
Moffat, John, 1:59
Moffat-Ladd garden, 1:59–62
Morgan, Patrick, 2:37
Mount, The see The Mount
Muspratt, Sally. Les Quatre Vents: Frank Cabot's Global Garden., 2:35–45
N
Nadenick, Joseph Daniel. Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, 3:8–14
National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in the State of New Hampshire, 1:59
New Woman, the, 2:29, 34
Noble, William: Northcote: an artist's New Hampshire garden, 2:1–9
Northcote, 2:1–9
O
Olmsted, Frederick Law, Jr. (1870-1957), 3:1–7
Olmsted, Frederick Law, Sr. (1822-1903), 1:56, 57
Influence on Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., 3:1–6
Lawns, 1:56, 57
Parks, 3:52
Olmsted-Manning style, 1:30, 31
P
Parrish, Stephen (1846 - 1938)
at Cornish, New Hampshire, 2:1–9
and Gwinn, 3:23, 26–33
Parsons, Samuel, 2:30
Parsons, Samuel, Jr., 1:56
Perkins, Thomas Handasyd, 1:1, 2
Picturesque, The, 2:25, 3:17, 20
Pierce, Mrs. George W., Garden, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2:12
Pineapples, 1:6
Platt, Charles (1861 - 1933), 2:1
Potter, Joseph S. (1822-1904), 2:20–27
Prairie School, 3:24
Proctor, Thomas, 1:23, 24
Q
Quail Hollow, Sandwich, Massachusetts, 2:17
Quebec gardens, 2:36–45
R
Rock gardens, 1:19–28 ; 3:45, 46
Rockweld, 1:26–28
Rogers, Ruthanne C.: The Man Who Loved Tulips, 1:59–62
Roses, 2:48–51
S
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 2:1, 32
Sander, Charles, 1:23
Sargent, Charles Sprague (1841-1927), 1:38–45
and Holm Lea, 1:22
Sargent, Henry W., 1:55, 56
Schnare, Susan E. : Some Massachusetts Rock Gardens, 1:19–28
Schwimming, Heinrich, 1:8
Scott, Frank J.: The Art of Beautifying Home Grounds, 1:56, 2:21
Seiberling, F. A., 1:31–34
Sevenels, 1:48–52
Sharp, H. Rodney, estate, 2:50
Shawme Farm. see Dexter, Charles O.
Shipman, Ellen Biddle
and Gwinn, 3:23, 26, 27, 29
and women landscape architects, 3:38
Singer, John Singer, 3:6
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, 3:8–14
Smith College Botanical Garden, 1:20–22
St. Amour, Wilmington, Delaware, 2:50
Stan Hywet Estate, 1:31–36
Steele, Fletcher, 1:29
Suburbs, 2:21
Sunset Hill, 1:19, 20
Sweeting, Adam:The morality of Antebellum gardening, 3:49–52
T
The Mount, 1:12–15, 24–26
Thomas Proctor Estate, 1:23, 24
Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862), 3:13
Todisco, Patrice: Amy Lowell: A Poet in the Garden, 1:47–53
Transcendentalist philosophy, 3:8, 11, 12
Trumpy, Jean Rudolph, 2:30, 31
Tulips, 1:60–62
Twain, Mark, 2:30
Two Places, Concord, Massachusetts, 2:15
U
Urban, Abram Linwood:Garden of Dreams, 1:51
V
Van Ravensway, Charles, 1:62
Van Rensselaer, Marianna Griswold:Art Out-of-Doors, 1:57
Vick, James, 1:60, 61
Von Arnim, Mary Annette Beauchamp: Elizabeth and Her German Garden, 1:40, 2:29
W
Weld, Stephen M. (1842-1920), 1:26, 27
Wharton, Edith, (1862-1937)
and Beatrix Jones Farrand, 1:11, 13–16
and The Mount, 1:13–15, 24–26
Wharton, Edith. Hudson River Bracketed., 3:17–22
Wharton, Edith. Italian Villas and Their Gardens, 3:17, 20
Wheeler, Gervase: Homes for the People in Suburb and Country, 2:21
Whidden, Michael, 1:59
Women writers, 2:29
Z
Zaitzevsky, Cynthia: Paul R. Frost of Cambridge, 2:10–19

Author Index

Andersen, Phyllis
The Codman collection of books on landscape gardening at the Boston Public Library
Vol. 5, pp. 50-52
Begg, Virginia Lopez
Alice Morse Earle: old time gardens in a brave new century
Vol. 8, pp. 13-21
Begg, Virginia Lopez
Frances Duncan: the “new woman” in the garden
Vol. 2, pp. 29-35
Begg, Virginia Lopez
Influential friends: Charles Sprague Sargent and Louisa Yeomans King
Vol. 1, pp. 38-45
Begg, Virginia Lopez
Mabel Osgood Wright: the friendship of nature and the commuter’s wife
Vol. 5, pp. 35-41
Berg, Shary Page
Mount Auburn Cemetery: an evolving legacy of public horticulture
Vol. 5, pp. 9-16
Brabec, Elizabeth
Meridian Hill Park: the making of an American Neoclassical landscape
Vol. 10, pp. 11-19
Brockway, Lucinda A.
“I have nowhere found a more beautiful spot”: John Hay’s Fells Farm
Vol. 3, pp. 39-47
Brown, Jay Roy
Skylands: a Jens Jensen landscape in Maine
Vol. 10, pp. 20-29
Chasse, Patrick
The last garden of Beatrix Farrand
Vol. 11, pp. 35-42
Child, Susan
Warren Manning 1860-1938: the forgotten genius of the American landscape
Vol. 1, p p. 29-37
Cole, Karen
A chapter in southern garden writing: the correspondence of Elizabeth Lawrence and Caroline Dormon
Vol. 9, pp. 45-54
Crawford, Pleasance
Andre Parmentier’s “two or three places in Upper Canada”
Vol. 5, pp. 1-8
Cutler, Phoebe
The villas of Rome and gardens of home, 1897
Vol. 8, pp. 3-12
Darnall, Margaretta J.
The Willows: Edith Wharton and Andrew Jackson Downing
Vol. 3, pp. 16-22
Darnall, Margaretta J.
Unraveling Rappaccini’s garden: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s botanic imagery
Vol. 5, pp. 17-24
Davidson, Rebecca Warren
The spirit of the garden: landscape and cultural expression in the work of Martha Brookes Hutcheson
Vol. 4, pp. 22-29
Deming, M. Elen
Christopher Tunnard, modern landscape architecture and the “empathic” view of Japan
Vol. 4, pp. 30-37
Dodenhoff, Donna C.
The view from Montpelier: James Madison’s configuration of the ideal republican landscape
Vol. 9, pp. 1-10
Emmet, Alan
Brief dynasty: John Perkins Cushing’s “Bellmont”
Vol. 1, pp. 1-9
Emmet, Alan
“For a fleeting moment”: Edith Wharton’s flower-garden at The Mount
Vol. 8, pp. 31-37
Emmet, Alan
Potter’s Grove and the suburban ideal
Vol. 2, pp. 20-28
Fleming, Nancy M.
Marion Coffin and the roses in her landscapes
Vol. 2, pp. 47-52
Fraker, Robert
The building of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society Library
Vol. 8, pp. 38-45
Franklin, Nan Wolverton
“A great cultivated garden”: vernacular gentility on the prairie
Vol. 5, pp. 42-49
Goodman, Phebe S.
East Boston’s Belmont Square: a nineteenth century urban landscape
Vol. 11, pp. 43-53
Gordon, Leonie
The evolution of New York City’s Bryant Park
Vol. 7, pp. 46-54
Griswold, Mac
Sylvester Manor: a colonial garden becomes a colonial revival garden
Vol. 5, pp. 25-34
Grove, Carol
Aesthetics, horticulture and the gardenesque: Victorian sensibilities at Tower Grove Park
Vol. 6, pp. 32-41
Hanna, Jennifer G.
Cultivating the amateur gardener: James Vick, seedsman and editor
Vol. 9, pp. 23-33
Hayward, Allyson M.
“A rather wild and picturesque place”: Henry Sargent Hunnewell at The Cedars
Vol. 6, pp. 1-13
Hayward, Allyson M.
Elm Bank: the evolution of a country estate in Dover, Massachusetts
Vol. 8, pp. 22-30
Hayward, Allyson M.
Hill-Stead: a country place farm in Connecticut
Vol. 11, pp. 22-34
Hilderbrand, Gary R.
Looking forward, or the return to the garden
Vol. 8, pp. 1-2
Hill, May Brawley
George Washington Cable and the Carnegie Gardening Competition in Northampton, Massachusetts
Vol. 8, pp. 46-53
Hutchinson, B. June
The importance of seeing green
Vol. 1, pp. 54-57
Karson, Robin
Gwinn: a collaborative design by Charles A. Platt and Warren H. Manning
Vol. 3, pp. 23-33
Klaus, Susan L.
“Such inheritance as I can give you”: the apprenticeship of Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.
Vol. 3, pp. 1-7
Krall, Daniel W.
The landscape architect as advocate: the writings of Elizabeth Leonard Strang
Vol. 11, pp. 12-21
Lanman, Susan Warren
Professional gardeners of Massachusetts
Vol. 7, pp. 15-23
Libby, Valencia
Jane Haines’ Vision: the Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Women
Vol. 10, pp. 44-52
Linn, Eve F. W.
Comfortable haven: the garden writing of Ruth B. Dean
Vol. 3, p p. 34-47
McGuire, Diane Kostial
Sermon on “The Mount”: Edith Jones Wharton’s influence on Beatrix Jones Farrand
Vol. 1, pp. 10-17
McLean, Elizabeth
Springettsbury: a lost estate of the Penn family
Vol. 7, pp. 34-45
Monro, J. Peter
John Calvin Stevens: relating landscape design to domestic architectural style
Vol. 8, pp. 54-62
Morse, Susan I.
Fiji ferns, damask roses, and china asters: Compton, a Victorian garden in Philadelphia
Vol. 9, pp. 11-22
Muspratt, Sally McGuire
Les Quatre Vents: Frank Cabot’s global garden
Vol. 2, pp. 36-4
Nadenicek, Daniel Joseph
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery: transcendental garden and community park
Vol. 3, pp. 8-15
Newbury, Diane
“But that garden now became his hobby-horse”: Charles Willson Peale and his garden at Belfield
Vol. 4, pp. 38-47
Noble, William
Northcote: an artist’s New Hampshire garden
Vol. 2, pp. 1-9
Otto, Stephen A.
Andre Parmentier’s “two or three places in Upper Canada”
Vol. 5, pp. 1-8
Reford, Alexander
Les jardins de Metis: Elsie Reford’s Canadian garden
Vol. 9, pp. 34-44
Reinberger, Mark
Springettsbury: a lost estate of the Penn family
Vol. 7, pp. 34-45
Richter, Paula Broadstreet
A rediscovered gardener’s legacy: Mr. John Robinson (1846-1925) of Salem, Massachusetts
Vol. 4, pp. 48-58
Rogers, Millard F, Jr.
The lost gardens of Mariemont, Rhode Island
Vol. 10, pp. 1-10
Rogers, Ruthane C.
The man who loved tulips
Vol. 1, pp. 58-62
Rusnak, Cecelia Jaswa
“His canvas is the sky”: O. C. Simonds and the Douglas estate
Vol. 7, pp. 24-33
Schnare, Susan E.
Some Massachusetts rock gardens
Vol. 1, pp. 19-28
Sweeting, Adam
“An enlarged unstraitened piety”: the morality of antebellum gardening
Vol. 3, pp. 48-54
Tankard, Judith B.
Henry Davis Sleeper’s gardens at Beauport
Vol. 10, pp. 30-43
Tankard, Judith B.
Of books and archives: an American perspective on Gertrude Jekyll’s legacy
Vol. 6, pp. 42-51
Todisco, Patrice
Amy Lowell: a poet in the garden
Vol. 1, pp. 46-53
Toole, Robert M.
“Illustrated and set to music”: the picturesque crescendo at Idelwild
Vol. 4, pp. 1-12
Tschirch, John R.
The evolution of a Beaux Arts landscape: The Breakers in Newport, Rhode Island
Vol. 7, pp. 1-14
Vinson, Donna Amelia
Architecture out back: Herbert J. Kellaway’s Chestnut Street garden in Salem, Mass.
Vol. 11, pp. 1-11
Webster, Constance A.
Recreating an American landscape: artistic and literary images of Joseph Bonaparte’s park at Point Breeze, New Jersey
Vol. 4, pp. 13-21
Whitworth, Peggy Boyle
“His canvas is the sky”: O. C. Simonds and the Douglas estate
Vol. 7, pp. 24-33
Zaitzevsky, Cynthia
A career in bud: Beatrix Jones Farrand’s education and early gardens
Vol. 6, pp. 14-31
Zaitzevsky, Cynthia
Paul R. Frost of Cambridge: an introduction to his life and work
Vol. 2, pp. 10-16

Table of Contents

VOLUME 1 (1991)

Brief Dynasty: John Perkins Cushing’s “Bellmont” by Alan Emmet
Sermon on “The Mount”: Edith Jones Wharton’s Influenceon Beatrix Jones Farrand by Diane Kostial McGuire
Some Massachusetts Rock Gardens by Susan E. Schnare
Warren Manning 1860-1938: The Forgotten Genius of the American Landscape by Susan Child
Influential Friends: Charles Sprague Sargent and LouisaYeomans King by Virginia Lopez Begg
Amy Lowell: A Poet in the Garden by Patrice Todisco
The Importance of Seeing Green by B. June Hutchinson
The Man Who Loved Tulips by Ruthanne C. Rogers

VOLUME 2 (1992)

Northcote: An Artist’s New Hampshire Garden by William Noble
Paul R. Frost of Cambridge: An Introduction to His Life andWork by Cynthia Zaitzevsky
Potter’s Grove and the Suburban Ideal by Alan Emmet
Frances Duncan: The “New Woman” in the Garden by Virginia Lopez Begg
Les Quatre Vents: Frank Cabot’s Global Garden by Sally McGuire Muspratt
Marian Coffin and the Roses in Her Landscapes by Nancy M. Fleming

VOLUME 3 (1993)
“Such Inheritance as I Can Give You”: The Apprenticeship of Frederick Law Olmsted, Junior by Susan L. Klaus
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery: Transcendental Garden and Community Park by Daniel Joseph Nadenicek
The Willows: Edith Wharton and Andrew Jackson Downing by Margaretta J. Darnall
Gwinn: A Collaborative Design by Charles A. Platt and Warren H. Manning by Robin Karson
Comfortable Haven: The Garden Writing of Ruth B. Dean by Eve F. W Linn
“I Have Nowhere Found a More Beautiful Spot”: John Hay’s Fells Farm by Lucinda A. Brockway
“An Enlarged Unstraitened Piety”: The Morality of Antebellum Gardening by Adam Sweeting

VOLUME 4 (1996)
“Illustrated and Set to Music”: The Picturesque Crescendo at Idlewild by Robert M. Toole
Recreating an American Landscape: Artistic and Literary Images of Joseph Bonaparte’s Park at Point Breeze, New
Jersey by Constance A. Webster
The Spirit of the Garden: Landscape and Cultural Expression in the Work of Martha Brookes Hutcheson by Rebecca Warren Davidson
Christopher Tunnard, Modern Landscape Architecture and the “Empathic” View of Japan by M. Elen Deming
“But That Garden Now Became His Hobby-Horse”: Charles Wilson Peale and His Garden … by Diane Newbury
A Rediscovered Gardener’s Legacy: Mr. John Robinson (1846—1925)of Salem, Massachusetts by Paula Bradstreet Richter

Volume 5 (1997)
André Parmentier’s “Two or Three Places in Upper Canada” by Pleasance Crawford and Stephen A. Otto
Mount Auburn Cemetery: An Evolving Legacy of Public Horticulture by Shary Page Berg
Unraveling Rappaccini’s Garden: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Botanic Imagery by Margaretta J. Darnall
Sylvester Manor: A Colonial Garden Becomes a Colonial Revival Garden by Mac Griswold
Mabel Osgood Wright: The Friendship of Nature and the Commuter’s Wife by Virginia Lopez Begg
“A Great Cultivated Garden”: Vernacular Gentility on the Prairie by Nan Wolverton Franklin
The Codman Collection of Books on Landscape Gardening at the Boston Public Library by Phyllis Andersen

VOLUME 6 (1998)
“A Rather Wild and Picturesque Place”: Henry Sargent Hunnewell at The Cedars by Allyson M. Hayward
A Career in Bud: Beatrix Jones Farrand’s Education and Early Gardens by Cynthia Zaitzevsky
Aesthetics, Horticulture, and the Gardenesque: Victorian Sensibilities at Tower Grove Park by Carol Grove
Of Books and Archives: An American Perspective on Gertrude Jekyll’s Legacy by Judith B. Tankard

VOLUME 7 (1999)

The Evolution of a Beaux Arts Landscape: The Breakers in Newport, Rhode Island by John R. Tschirch
Professional Gardeners of Massachusetts by Susan Warren Lanman
“His Canvas Is The Sky”: O.C. Simonds and the Douglas Estate by Cecilia Jaswa Rusnak and Peggy Boyle Whitworth
Springettsbury: A Lost Estate of the Penn Family by Elizabet McLean and Mark Reinberger
The Evolution of New York City’s Bryant Park by Leonie Gordon


VOLUME 8 (2000)
Looking Forward, or the Return to the Garden by Gary R. Hilderbrand
The Villas of Rome and Gardens at Home, 1897 by Phoebe Cutler
Alice Morse Earle: Old Time Gardens in a Brave New Century by Virginia Lopez Begg
Elm Bank: The Evolution of a Country Estate in Dover, Massachusetts by Allyson M. Hayward
“For a Fleeting Moment” Edith Wharton’s Flower-gardenat The Mount by Alan Emmet
The Building of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society Library by Robert Fraker
George Washington Cable and the Carnegie Gardening Competition in Northampton, Massachusetts by May Brawley Hill
John Calvin Stevens: Relating Landscape Design to Domestic Architectural Style by J. Peter Monro

VOLUME 9 (2001)
The View from Montpelier: James Madison’s Con­figuration of the Ideal Republican Landscape by Donna
C. Dodenhoff
Fiji Ferns, Damask Roses, and China Asters: Compton, A Victorian Garden in Philadelphia by Susan I. Morse
Cultivating the Amateur Gardener: James Vick, Seedsman and Editor by Jennifer G. Hanna
Les Jardins de Métis: Elsie Reford’s Canadian Garden by Alexander Reford
A Chapter in Southern Garden Writing: The Cor­respondence of Elizabeth Lawrence and Carolin Dormon by Karen Cole

VOLUME 10 (2002)
The Lost Gardens of Mariemont, Rhode Island by Millard F. Rogers, Jr.
Meridian Hill Park: the Making of an American Neoclassical Landscape by Elizabeth Brabec.
Skylands: A Jens Jensen Landscape in Main, by Jane Roy Brown.
Henry David Sleeper’s Gardens at Beauport by Judith B. Tankard.
Jane Haines’ Vision: The Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Women by Valencia Libby.


VOLUME 11 (2003)
Architecture Out Back: Herbert J. Kellaway’s Chestnut Street Garden in Salem, Massachusetts by Donna Amelia Vinson.
The Landscape Architect as Advocate: the Writings of Elizabeth Leonard Strang by Daniel W. Krall.
Hill-Stead: A Country Place Farm in Connecticut by Allyson M. Hayward.
The Last Garden of Beatrix Farrand by Patrick Chasse´.
East Boston’s Belmont Square: a Nineteenth-Century Urban Landscape by Phebe S. Goodman.

 

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