Main entry:

Wright, Richardson Little, 1887-1961, author.

Title & Author:

The story of gardening : from the hanging gardens of Babylon to the hanging gardens of New York / by Richardson Wright

Publication:

Garden City, N.Y. : Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., 1938.
©1934

Description:

x, 475 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
"Copyright, 1934 by Dodd, Mead and Company, Inc."
Includes bibliographical references ( pages 433-446) and index,
I. The wayfaring of gardens -- II. How gardening began -- III. Down the west Asian road -- IV. Gardening in ancient Greece -- V. On Roman roof gardens and country places -- VI. Monastic and mediæval gardens -- VII. A cycle of gardening in Cathay -- VIII. In old Japan -- IX. Mohammedan gardens go westward -- X. The garden flowering of the Renaissance - and afterward -- XI. Two centuries of English gardening -- XII. Le Nôtre and the spread of his gardens -- XIII. Gardening in eighteenth century England -- XIV. The rise of gardening in America -- XV. The eighteenth century in France and on the continent -- XVI. Mingled garden advances in the nineteenth century -- XVII. The threshold of our own times.
Also available online.

Subject:

Gardening History.
Gardening

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 110999
Call No.: ID:85-B18089
Status: Available