Main entry:

Emmet, Alan, 1927-2021.

Title & Author:

So fine a prospect : historic gardens of New England / Alan Emmet.

Publication:

Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, ©1996.

Description:

xvi, 238 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: So Fine a Prospect -- 1. A Race of Cultivators: Theodore Lyman, John Codman, and Other Exemplars of the Pastoral Ideal -- 2. The Conservative Tradition: Gardens of Portsmouth, New Hampshire -- 3. Radishes and Orchids: The Bootts' Garden in Boston -- 4. Ghosts in the Garden: Vaucluse, Portsmouth, Rhode Island -- 5. Brief Dynasty: John Perkins Cushing's Bellmont, Watertown, Massachusetts -- 6. Boxwood and Bunting: Henry Bowen's Roseland, Woodstock, Connecticut -- 7. Family Trees: Wellesley, the Hunnewell Estate -- 8. To Bring Back the Past: The Codmans at The Grange, Lincoln, Massachusetts -- 9. A Little Taste of Everything: Potter's Grove, Arlington, Massachusetts -- 10. On the Isles of Shoals: Celia Thaxter and Her Garden by the Sea -- 11. The Power Landscape: William Seward Webb's Shelburne Farms, Shelburne, Vermont -- 12. The Sculptor Makes a Garden: Daniel Chester French's Chesterwood, Stockbridge, Massachusetts -- 13. Of Time and the River: The Gardens at Hamilton House, South Berwick, Maine -- 14. The Italian Inspiration: The Garden at Faulkner Farm, Brookline, Massachusetts -- 15. The Great Good Place: Edith Wharton at The Mount, Lenox, Massachusetts -- 16. A New Palette: Eolia, the Harkness Estate, Waterford, Connecticut -- 17. The Mind's Eye and the Camera's Eye.

ISBN:

0874517494 (alk. paper)
9780874517491

Subject:

Historic gardens New England.
Gardens New England History.
Jardins historiques Nouvelle-Angleterre.
Gardens.
Historic gardens.
New England.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 120156
Call No.: ID SB466.U65.N4825; ID:96-B412
Status: Available