Main entry:

Hawthorne, Hildegarde, author.

Title & Author:

The lure of the garden / by Hildegarde Hawthorne ; illustrated in full color by Maxfield Parrish, Jules Guérin, Sigismond de Ivanowski, Anna Whelan Betts, and others, and with photographs.

Publication:

New York : The Century Co., 1911.
[New York] : The De Vinne Press
©1911

Description:

x, 259 pages : illustrations (color), plates ; 27 cm

Notes:
Title within ornamental border.
Plates included in pagination.
Introduction -- Our grandmother's gardens -- Washington's garden -- Childhood in the garden -- The social side of gardens -- Gardens and gossips -- Gardens of some well-known people -- Some garden vices -- Gardens in literature -- Garden Gates -- Gardens public and botanical -- Winter wonder -- Possibilies of the future.
Also available online.

Summary:

"This is not a typical book on gardening methods, but rather a meditation on how each of us responds to a garden as a place, and on the importance of gardens to humans' well-being ... Author Hildegarde Hawthorne was the granddaughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne and a prolific writer in her own right. The book is richly illustrated with drawings and black-and-white photographs. The last chapter speculates about America's future gardens. Will we have stately gardens similar to those in England, Italy, and France? One hundred and six years later, the answer is a resounding "Yes." The variety and number of public and private gardens throughout the United States would surely please Hawthorne"--From the Smithsonian Institution website.

Subject:

Gardens.
Gardens, American.
Nature observation.
Jardins.
Jardins américains.
Nature Observation.
gardens (open spaces)

Form/genre:

Illustrated works.
Publishers' cloth bindings.
Decorated papers.
Embossed cloth bindings.
Pictorial cloth bindings.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Parrish, Maxfield, 1870-1966, illustrator.
Guérin, Jules Vallée, 1866-1946, illustrator.
Ivanowski, Sigismond de, 1875-1944, illustrator.
Betts, Anna Whelan, illustrator.
De Vinne Press, printer.
Century Company, publisher.
United States New York (State) New York,

Holdings:

Location: Library main 5768
Call No.: ID:87-B20493
Status: Available