Main entry:

Copeland, Robert Morris, 1830-1874, author.

Title & Author:

Country life : a handbook of agriculture, horticulture, and landscape gardening / by R. Morris Copeland.

Publication:

Boston : John P. Jewett and Company ; Cleveland : Heney P. B. Jewett, 1859.
Cambridge : printed by H. O. Houghton and Company, [1859]
©1859

Description:

x, 813 pages, 10 leaves of plates : illustrations (some color), plans ; 22 cm

Notes:
Double-page lithographed frontispiece and eight full page wood engravings; wood engravings throughout text; on verso of title-page: "Illustrations drawn by Warren, engraved by Andrew."
"Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by John P. Jewett and Company, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the district of Massachusetts."
Electrotyped by Cowles & Company, 17 Washington Street, Boston.
Dedicated "to all lovers of nature and to all engaged in cultivating and adorning the earth ..."
Illustrated t.p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Also issued online.

Summary:

This book addresses the beginnings of suburbanization in the United States. Copeland imagines a sixty acre estate, and aims his descriptions for the upper-middle class, on the grounds that the rich can afford gardeners and the working class can't afford the estate. In fact, his plans look pretty grand from the perspective of today, replete with greenhouses, conservatories, graperies, and asparagus patches, and the country gentleman to be who took all of Copeland's advice would have his hands full.

Subject:

Agriculture Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Horticulture Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Landscape gardening Handbooks, manuals, etc.
plant cultural practices.
horticulture.
horticultural crops.
crop production.
rural sociology.
rural economics.
Agriculture

Form/genre:

handbooks.
manuals (instructional materials)
Handbooks and manuals
Guides et manuels.

Added entries:

Copeland's country life
Country life, a handbook of agriculture, horticulture, and landscape gardening

Holdings:

Location: Library main 126307
Call No.: W5639; ID:85-B21928
Status: Available