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Available
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Publication
Random House (1994), Edition: 1st, 240 pages
Description
This is a comprehensive study of the evolution of gardens and the men and women who shaped that evolution: the Tradescants; Charles Bridgeman, William Kent; Sir John Vanburgh; Sir Francis Dashwood; Sir Joseph Paxton; Sir Edwin Lutyens; and Gertrude Jekyll, through to figures of the 20th century such as Thomas Church, Beatrix Farrand and Fletcher Steele in America, and Vita Sackville-West, Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe and Penelope Hobhouse in Britain. There is also an account of the degree of co-operation between British and American gardeners.
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ISBN
0679430148 / 9780679430148
LCC
SB61 .P58