Cultivating environmental justice : a literary history of U.S. garden writing / Robert S. Emmett. by Emmett, Robert S., 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The democratic roots of twentieth-century U.S. garden writing -- Postwar garden writing, literary cultivation, and environmentalism -- Being there, second nature, and the gardener as pragmatist -- Race, regionalism, and the emergence of environmental justice in Southern gardens -- Postindustrial America and the rise of community gardens -- Seeding new territories -- Epilogue. garden writing and a phenology of survival.…”
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America's romance with the English garden / Thomas J. Mickey. by Mickey, Thomas J.

Table of Contents: “…The British connection -- The English garden influence at Williamsburg -- Early wealthy Americans and their English landscapes -- A short history of the nineteenth-century seed and nursery industries in America -- Garden writing from the seed companies and nurseries -- Social changes affect the seed and nursery industries -- Major themes in the catalogs -- Gardening and the middle class -- The grandest rose of the century -- Landscape design according to the catalogs.…”
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The Liberty Hyde Bailey gardener's companion : essential writings / edited by John A. Stempien and John Linstrom. by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954

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