Main entry:

Maloney, Cathy Jean.

Title & Author:

Chicago gardens : the early history / Cathy Jean Maloney.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2008.

Description:

xii, 417 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-410) and index.
Introduction -- Growers and sowers: planters of the plains and parkways -- Planting the prairie: defining the new plant palette -- Chicago by design: a blank canvas for cultivated gardens -- Suburban sojourn: gardens in the country -- Fairs and flowers: Chicago hosts a world of fairs -- Prairie pastimes: entertaining in the garden -- The next century -- Appendix 1: Plant lists by time period -- Appendix 2: Chicago plants -- Appendix 3: Key names and groups in the Garden City, 1833-1933.

Summary:

"In 1837 the fledgling city of Chicago, once maligned as a swampy outpost, brazenly adopted the motto Urbs in Horto, or City in a Garden. Chicago Gardens shows how this upstart town earned its unlikely sobriquet over the next century, from the first vegetable plots at Fort Dearborn to innovative garden designs at the 1933 World's Fair. Cathy Jean Maloney has spent decades researching the city's horticultural heritage, and here she reveals the unusual history of Chicago's first gardens."--Jacket.

Resources:
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Contributor biographical information
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Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9780226502342 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0226502341 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Gardens Illinois Chicago History.
GARDENING / Regional / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Gardens
Garten
Illinois Chicago
Chicago, Ill.
Chicago Gärten und Grünanlagen Geschichte.

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 258689
Call No.: BIB 189481
Status: Available