Chicago gardens the early history /
Once maligned as a swampy outpost, the fledgling city of Chicago brazenly adopted the motto Urbs in Horto or City in a Garden, in 1837. Chicago Gardens shows how this upstart town earned its sobriquet over the next century, from the first vegetable plots at Fort Dearborn to innovative garden designs...
| Основен автор: | Maloney, Cathy Jean. |
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| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
℗♭2008.
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Print version::
Chicago gardens. |
Съдържание:
- Introduction
- Growers and sowers: planters of the plains and parkways
- Planting the prairie: defining the new plant palette
- Chicago by design: a blank canvas for cultivated gardens
- Suburban sojourn: gardens in the country
- Fairs and flowers: Chicago hosts a world of fairs
- Prairie pastimes: entertaining in the garden
- The next century
- Appendix 1: Plant lists by time period
- Appendix 2: Chicago plants
- Appendix 3: Key names and groups in the Garden City, 1833-1933.