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Washington's Gardens at Mount Vernon Hardback - 1999

by Mac Griswold; Roger Foley (Photographer)

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For gardeners and readers of early American history, here is the first book to document the unknown George Washington --- landscaper, farmer, and gardener of Mount Vernon. Remarkably, the George Washington who spent forty-five years designing and planting the gardens at Mount Vernon is virtually unknown today, hidden behind the icon of the first president's frozen dignity. In her new book, Mac Griswold reveals to us a man who gathered seed, transplanted and pruned trees, and designed a kitchen garden, a pleasure garden, and even a botanical garden, where he did all the experimental work himself. Washington left for historians and restorationists a wealth of memos, directives, diaries, plans, and plant lists that documented every step of his creation (and now the recreation) of his gardens. Out of this wealth of archival material, Griswold paints a remarkably vivid picture of eighteenth-century gardening.

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For gardeners and readers of early American history, here is the first book to document the unknown George Washington --- landscaper, farmer, and gardener of Mount Vernon. Remarkably, the George Washington who spent forty-five years designing and planting the gardens at Mount Vernon is virtually unknown today, hidden behind the icon of the first president's frozen dignity. In her new book, Mac Griswold reveals to us a man who gathered seed, transplanted and pruned trees, and designed a kitchen garden, a pleasure garden, and even a botanical garden, where he did all the experimental work himself. Washington left for historians and restorationists a wealth of memos, directives, diaries, plans, and plant lists that documented every step of his creation (and now the recreation) of his gardens. Out of this wealth of archival material, Griswold paints a remarkably vivid picture of eighteenth-century gardening.

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  • Title Washington's Gardens at Mount Vernon
  • Author Mac Griswold; Roger Foley (Photographer)
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Houghton Mifflin, Boston
  • Publication date 1999-05-15
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780395929704 / 0395929709
  • Weight 2.2 lbs (1.00 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 10.42 x 0.89 in (21.08 x 26.47 x 2.26 cm)
  • Category Gardening / Horticulture
  • Library of Congress subjects Mount Vernon (Va.: Estate), Washington, George - Homes and haunts -
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 98-46015
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.410
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