Sarudy, Barbara Wells, author.

Gardens and gardening in the Chesapeake, 1700-1805 / Barbara Wells Sarudy.

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

xiv, 206 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

The mid-Atlantic region has an abundance of houses and buildings dating to the eighteenth century. But the gardens that surrounded these early homes were almost all reclaimed by wilderness or altered by later residents. The author describes the region's earliest gardens, and those who designed and tended these landscapes. She tells of Charles Carroll of Annapolis, who spent the 1770s fretting about revolutionary politics and designing geometric landscapes for his home -- and who died in 1783, the result of a fall in his beloved garden. She describes Charles Ridgely's terraced garden at Hampton, one of more than seventy geometric gardens that dotted the hills around Baltimore in the 1800s. And she recalls Rosalie Stier Calvert's quest for beauty and utility in her garden at Riversdale, where at great expense she ordered the installation of an ornamental lake to improve the view while also providing ice for the kitchen and fish for the table. Beyond the gentry, she tells the less familiar stories of the gardeners, laborers, nurserymen, and seed dealers whose skills and efforts transformed the Chesapeake landscape.

0801858232 (alk. paper)
9780801858239 (alk. paper)

Gardens Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) History 18th century.
Gardening Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) History 18th century.
Gardening.
Gardens.
United States Chesapeake Bay Region.

History.

Location: Library main 196898
Call No.: ID SB451.34.C45.S27; ID:98-B183
Status: Available