Rose, James C. (James Clarence), 1913-1991.

Creative gardens.

New York, Reinhold Pub. Corp. [1958]

208 pages illustrations (some color) diagrams, facsimile, plans 33 cm

This is definitely not a how-to-do-it book, but it might well be considered a how-to-think-it book. Mr. Rose feels that to tell someone whose place you have never seen how to design a garden is like a doctor trying to perform an appendectomy over the telephone when he is not sure the patient has appendicitis. Here is a thought-provoking essay, counter-pointed against handsome photographs and factual, case history, caption stories. Mr. Rose separates the garden from the house for purposes of analysis. He then discusses the usual house plus garden, wherein the garden is an afterthought that generally suffers from a tired budget. He finally illustrates, with specific examples, the complete fusion of house and landscape an attribute so rare in this country that our language does not yet have an individual word to describe it. -- from book jacket.

Landscape gardening.
Gardens.
Landscape architecture.
Architecture du paysage.
Jardins Architecture.
Jardins.
landscape gardening.
gardens (open spaces)
landscape architecture (discipline)
Garten
Landschaftsgarten
Architektonischer Garten
Landscaping.
Horticulture.

Location: Library main 77188
Call No.: ID:92-B905
Status: Available