Georgian Gardens. The Reign of Nature. 1983. 92 (12 col.) figs. 240 p. gr8vo. Cloth.

Contents (partly): The Birth of the Natural Style (Genius of the Place,The Ferme Ornee, Uniting the Arts, Beautiful Nature, Mr Kent's Notion ofGardening, The Progress of the New Taste, Parkland)/ The Progress ofTaste (Chinoiserie and Gothic Revival, Gardening Taste, The Scenery ofNature, Improvement)/ The Heyday of the Natural Style (Royal Patronage,Lancelot Brown and his Pupils, Improving One's Own Place, ThePicturesque Eye, Tan Chet-Qua and the Peasant Slave)/ Strictures onLandscape Gardening (The Planting Spirit, Professional Improvers,Private Improvers, The Picturesque Principle, Sense, Propriety andCongruity, Tourism)/ Repton and the Picturesque (Humphry Repton.Landscape Gardener, The Tasteless Band of Followers, Beauty, Sublimityand Picturesqueness, The Picturesque Debate, Sequestered Glades, Theoryand Practice, Picturesque Improvement)/ Regency Gardens (LandscapeGardeners and Their Clients, Picturesque Taste, Gardening as an Art ofTaste, Architecture and Sculpture Softened by Vegetation, The Displayof Plants, The Cottage Garden, Landscape Gardening in the Metropolis)/Notes/ Bibliography/ Index.