Colonial Gardens

Author : M. Kent Brinkley
Publisher : Colonial Williamsburg
ISBN 13 : 9780879351588
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gardens of Colonial Williamsburg written by M. Kent Brinkley and published by Colonial Williamsburg. This book was released on 1996 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""The Gardens of Colonial Williamsburg" features twenty gardens in Colonial Williamsburg's Historic Area. Stunning photography complements the text and detailed garden plans identify the plantings in each garden. Experience the sights, colors, and textures found in Colonial Williamsburg's gardens each season of the year."--Book jacket.

Author : Wesley Greene
Publisher : Rodale
ISBN 13 : 1609611624
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vegetable Gardening the Colonial Williamsburg Way written by Wesley Greene and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Colonial Williamsburg garden historian outlines traditional methods for planting and tending 50 different kinds of vegetables, profiling such 18th-century utilities as shelter paper and fermented manure while sharing complementary weather-watching guidelines, organic techniques and seed-saving advice.

Author : American Society of Landscape Architects
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colonial Gardens written by American Society of Landscape Architects and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph Prentis
Publisher : Colonial Williamsburg
ISBN 13 : 0879352507
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Williamsburg's Joseph Prentis written by Joseph Prentis and published by Colonial Williamsburg. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The personal garden book and garden calendar of Joseph Prentis, an attorney in Williamsburg, Virginia. Prentis's garden directions and advice provide us with an interesting and useful garden record. These manuscripts from eighteenth-century tidewater Virginia are a welcome addition to kitchen garden literature.

Author : Frances Phipps
Publisher : Dutton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colonial Kitchens, Their Furnishings, and Their Gardens written by Frances Phipps and published by Dutton. This book was released on 1972 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lucile H. Brockway
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300091434
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science and Colonial Expansion written by Lucile H. Brockway and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This widely acclaimed book analyzes the political effects of scientific research as exemplified by one field, economic botany, during one epoch, the nineteenth century, when Great Britain was the world's most powerful nation. Lucile Brockway examines how the British botanic garden network developed and transferred economically important plants to different parts of the world to promote the prosperity of the Empire. In this classic work, available once again after many years out of print, Brockway examines in detail three cases in which British scientists transferred important crop plants--cinchona (a source of quinine), rubber and sisal--to new continents. Weaving together botanical, historical, economic, political, and ethnographic findings, the author illuminates the remarkable social role of botany and the entwined relation between science and politics in an imperial era.

Author : Susan Hight Rountree
Publisher : Colonial Williamsburg
ISBN 13 : 9780879352127
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From a Colonial Garden: Ideas, Decorations, Recipes written by Susan Hight Rountree and published by Colonial Williamsburg. This book was released on 2003 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonial Williamsburg's renowned gardens have always played a major role in the life of the town. Their beauty and bounty inspired this clearly written and illustrated entertaining and decorating guide.

Author : Peter Martin
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813920535
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pleasure Gardens of Virginia written by Peter Martin and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a rich assortment of illustrations and biographical sketches, Peter Martin relates the experiences of colonial gardeners who shaped the natural beauty of Virginia's wilderness into varied displays of elegance. He shows that ornamental gardening was a scientific, aesthetic, and cultural enterprise that thoroughly engaged some of the leading figures of the period, including the British governors at Williamsburg and the great plantation owners George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, William Byrd, and John Custis. In presenting accounts of their gardening efforts, Martin reveals the intricacies of colonial garden design, plant searches, and experimentation, as well as the problems in adapting European landscaping ideas to local climate. The Pleasure Gardens of Virginia also brings to life the social and commercial interaction between Williamsburg and the plantations, and examines early American ideas about gracious living. While placing Virginia's garden tradition within the larger context of that of the colonial South, Martin tells a very human story of how this art both influenced and reflected the quality of colonial life. As Virginia grew economically and culturally, the garden became a projection of the gardener's personal identity, as exemplified by the endeavors of Washington at Mount Vernon and Jefferson at Monticello. Martin draws upon both pictorial representations and the findings of modern archaeological excavations in order to recapture the gardens as they existed in colonial times.

Author : Timothy P Barnard
Publisher : Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9814722456
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nature's Colony written by Timothy P Barnard and published by Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1859, Singapore's Botanic Gardens has served as a park for Singaporeans and visitors, a scientific institution, and a testing ground for tropical plantation crops. Each function has its own story, while the Gardens also fuel an underlying narrative of the juncture of administrative authority and the natural world. Created to help exploit natural resources for the British Empire, the Gardens became contested ground in conflicts involving administrators and scientists that reveal shifting understandings of power, science and nature in Singapore and in Britain. This continued after independence, when the Gardens featured in the "e;greening"e; of the nation-state, and became Singapore's first World Heritage Site. Positioning the Singapore Botanic Gardens alongside the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew and gardens in India, Ceylon, Mauritius and the West Indies, this book tells the story of nature's colony-a place where plants were collected, classified and cultivated to change our understanding of the region and world.

Author : Daud Ali
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000365670
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Garden and Landscape Practices in Pre-colonial India written by Daud Ali and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a set of new and innovative essays on landscape and garden culture in precolonial India, with a special focus on the Deccan. Most research to date has concentrated on the comparatively well preserved gardens and built landscapes of the celebrated Mughal empire, giving the impression that they have been lacking in other times and regions. Not only does this volume provide a corrective to such assumptions, it also moves away from traditional art-historical approaches by posing new questions and exploring hitherto neglected source materials. The contributors understand gardens in two related ways: first as real or imagined spaces and manipulated landscapes that are often invested with pronounced semiotic density; and second as congeries of institutions and practices with far-reaching social ramifications for the constitution of elite societies. The essays here present a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of garden culture in precolonial India, and together suggest several new and exciting directions of enquiry for those working in the Deccan, Mughal India, and beyond.