WASHINGTON'S GARDENS AT MOUNT VERNON LANDSCAPE OF THE INNER MAN

C 1999 VERY GOOD HARDBACK IN VG DUST JACKET HOUGHTON MIFFLIN [GRISWOLD, MAC] LANDSCAPE OF THE INNER MAN

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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.

Product Info

ISBN: 0395929709

ISBN-13: 9780395929704

Publisher: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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