Book ID: 58736
Douglas, D. and C. Chambers
The planters of the English landscape garden:botany, trees and the Georgics.1993.130 figs. Some col.pls.214 p. 4to.Hard cover.
Contents (partly): The Patriots of Horticulture: An Introduction/ TheTranslation of Antiquity: Pliny and Virgil/ A Grove of Venerable Oaks:John Evelyn and his Contemporaries/ Things of a Natural Kind: Shaftesbury and the Concept of Nature/ Rural and Extensive Landscape:Switzer and Ingentia Rura/ Evergreens and American Plants: The Earl ofIslay at Whitton and the Duke of Richmond at Goodwood/ Painting withLiving Pencils: Lord Petre/ The Practical Part of Gardening: Botanists,Gardeners, and Designers/ Gardeners: Forst Trees for Use and Ornament/Nature's still Improv'd but never Lost: Philip Southcote and WooburnFarm/ etc.