Thomas Jefferson's Flower Garden at Monticello
Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia Press, 1986. 5th Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Item #2342933
ISBN: 9780813910871
Fifth printing. Faint stain on front cover.
96 pp. The restoration of the flower gardens at Monticello in 1941, sponsored by the Garden Club of Virginia, was the result of Edwin Betts's scholarly research and Hazlehurst Perkins's practical gardening skills. Thomas Jefferson's Flower Garden at Monticello presents the evolution of Jefferson's ornamental gardening efforts with an analysis of the flower gardens as they were planned, planted, and ultimately restored. No early American gardens were as well-documented as those at Monticello, which became an experimental station, a botanic garden of new and unusual plants from around the world. Betts and Perkins communicate here the nature and sources of Jefferson's intelligent venture into ornamental gardening.
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