Early American Gardens: For Meate or Medicine by Leighton, Ann

Early American Gardens: For Meate or Medicine (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780870235306)

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Early American Gardens: For Meate or Medicine by Leighton, Ann

Early American Gardens: For Meate or Medicine

$32.95
Early American Gardens: For Meate or Medicine by Leighton, Ann

Early American Gardens: For Meate or Medicine

$32.95
Format: Paperback
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Early American Gardens, published in 1970, was the first of three authoritative volumes of garden history by Ann Leighton. The 464-page masterwork of garden history was reissued in this paperback edition by University of Massachusetts Press in 1986. Concentrating on the gardens of the early settlers of New England, this volume deals with gardeners as well as the plants they depended upon for household aids, flavorings, drinks, and medicines. The well-illustrated, thorough, and scholarly volume is a book for history buffs as well as avid and inquisitive gardeners.

Companion volumes by Ann Leighton

American Gardens in the Eighteenth Century "For Use or for Delight"
American Gardens of the Nineteenth Century "For Comfort and Affluence"

Author: Ann Leighton
ISBN-10: 0870235303
ISBN-13: 9780870235306
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Language: English
Published: 08/29/1986
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.43lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.05w x 0.98d
By Ann Leighton
By Ann Leighton
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Ann Leighton was the professional name of Isadore Smith (1902-1985), the renowned garden historian, scholar, author, designer and landscape architect who, with Catherine C. "Kitty" Weeks, designed the colonial-themed gardens at the Weeks Brick House in Greenland, New Hampshire in 1977. Among many commissions, Smith designed the garden at the 1677 Whipple House in Ipswich, Massachusetts, which is owned by the Ipswich Historical Society. Smith neatly summed up the staying power of her subject matter in a brief book-jacket teaser: "While buildings may decay and crumble, the plants of every age are still with us and need only to be collected and replanted to speak for the time and its people."

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