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Beautiful Gardens in America

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Beautiful Gardens in America

Louise Shelton

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Step through the gates of the grand gardens of a young country. Louise Shelton's classic gathers the finest American gardens of its day in words and pictures, honoring the men and women who made them. A tour of terraces, borders, and green rooms coast to coast. Stroll the most beautiful gardens America had to show.

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62 chapters

  1. 1BEAUTIFUL GARDENS IN AMERICA
  2. 2BOOKS BY LOUISE SHELTON
  3. 3PUBLISHED BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
  4. 4BEAUTIFUL GARDENS IN AMERICA
  5. 5LOUISE SHELTON
  6. 6SECOND EDITION
  7. 7NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1916
  8. 8DEDICATED TO THE PRAISE OF THOSE AMERICAN MEN AND WOMEN, OF WHATSOEVER PERIOD, WHO HAVE PLANTED SO BEAUTIFULLY THAT THEIR GARDENS ARE AN INSPIRATION TO OTHERS IN ALL GENERATIONS
  9. 9IN GREEN OLD GARDENS
  10. 10CONTENTS
  11. 11ILLUSTRATIONS
  12. 12COLOR-PLATES
  13. 13HALF-TONE PLATES
  14. 14FOREWORD
  15. 15BEAUTIFUL GARDENS IN AMERICA
  16. 16A GARDEN
  17. 17I
  18. 18THE GARDEN AND ITS MEANING

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