Main entry:

Chambers, Douglas.

Title & Author:

The planters of the English landscape garden : botany, trees, and the Georgics / Douglas Chambers.

Publication:

New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 1993.

Description:

214 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm

Series:

Studies in British art

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-209) and index.
The patriots of horticulture: an introduction -- The translation 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 of Islay at Whitton and the Duke of Richmond at Goodwood -- Painting with living pencils: Lord Petre -- The practical part of gardening: botanists, gardeners, and designers -- Gardeners: forest trees for use and ornament -- Nature's still improv'd but never lost: Philip Southcote and Wooburn Farm -- Prospects and the natural beauties of places: Joseph Spence -- Smoothing or brushing the robe of nature: William Shenstone and the Leasowes -- None but real professors: conclusion.

Summary:

There have been many studies of the English landscape garden of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, but most of these have concentrated on the tastes of owners or the technical plans of designers. This handsomely illustrated book by Douglas D.C. Chambers instead discusses the philosophy of gardening and landscaping that developed during this period, the gardeners who made the gardens, and the new planting materials available to them. Between 1650 and 1750, new developments in botanical horticulture led to the availability of a vast new repertory of trees and shrubs. These imports, mainly from America, were the materials that made the extensive English landscape garden possible. Inspired by texts of Virgil, Pliny, and Horace as well as by scientific advances of the newly founded Royal Society, theorists and designers, owner-planters, and countless gardeners and nurserymen used the expanded vocabulary of botanical taxonomy to create gardens that transformed the look of the English landscape. Chambers illustrates how philosophy and practice, ancient ideals and horticultural experimentation all served one end: the creation of an ideal landscape that was both Edenic and classical. Out of this came not only the foundation collection for the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew but an English landscape of forest garden, ferme ornee, and park landscape that would have been inconceivable a century earlier: the English landscape that we know today. -- Publisher.

ISBN:

0300054645
9780300054644

Subject:

Gardens, English History.
Gardeners England History.
Gardens England History.
Plants, Ornamental England History.
Ornamental trees England History.
Jardins anglais Histoire.
Jardiniers Angleterre Histoire.
Jardins Angleterre Histoire.
Arbres d'ornement Angleterre Histoire.
Gardeners.
Gardens.
Gardens, English.
Ornamental trees.
Plants, Ornamental.
Bildband
Botanik
Englisch
Gartenkunst
Landschaftsgarten
Literatur
Tuinarchitectuur.
Landschapsarchitectuur.
Hoveniers.
Tuinieren.
Arquitetura Paisagistica.
England.
Großbritannien
Gardens Landscape design
Landscaping.
Horticulture.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Studies in British art (Unnumbered)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 86192
Call No.: ID PLS; ID:93-B1814
Status: Available

Location: Library main 86191
Call No.: ID:93-B1814
Status: Available