Washington's Gardens at Mount Vernon: Landscape of the Inner Man
by Griswold, Mac
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. Book. Illus. by Foley, Roger. Fine. Hardcover. First Printing. 192 pages, numerous illustrations and color photos by Roger Foley, plant lists, time line for Mount Vernon's Gardens and Landscape, notes, bibliography, index, illustrated endpapers; oblong 8vo, light brown cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Synopsis
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: Landscape of the Inner Man
- Author
- Griswold, Mac
- Illustrator
- Foley, Roger
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Printing
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- George Washington, Mount Vernon, Horticulture, Presidents
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