British and American gardens in the eighteenth century : eighteen illustrated essays on garden history /
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Williamsburg, Va. :
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation,
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Table of Contents:
- Bursting prospect": British garden history now / M. Brownell.
- Nomenclature of style in garden history / K. Woodbridge.
- Pope's Twickenham revisited / J.D. Hunt.
- An 18th-century view of Pope's villa / A.J. Weitzman.
- The "Ferme Ornee" and changing attitudes to agricultural improvement / W.A. Brogden.
- The high phase of English landscape gardening / M. Batey.
- Parnell's garden tours: Hagley and the Leasowes / J. Sambrook.
- Nature as the bride of art: the design and structure of Painshill / M. Symes.
- The volcano: culmination of the landscape garden / C. Thacker.
- The American garden at Millburn Tower / A.A. Tait.
- The picturesque in the American garden and landscape before 1800 / J.D. Kornwolf.
- "Long and assiduous endeavours": gardening in early 18th-century Virginia / P. Martin.
- People and plants: North Carolina's garden history revisited / J. Flowers.
- Eighteenth-century New England garden design: the pictorial evidence / A.L. Cummings.
- Town and country gardens in 18th-century Philadelphia / E. McLean.
- Gardens and landscapes in 18th-century South Carolina / G.C. Rogers, Jr.
- Landscape archaeology: a key to Virginia's cultivated past / W.M. Kelso.
- The temple in the garden: Thomas Jefferson's vision of the Monticello landscape / W.L. Beiswanger.