1st Edition

Encyclopedia of Gardens History and Design

    1590 Pages
    by Routledge

    Produced under the auspices of the Chicago Botanic Garden, this major international reference work contains more than 600 entries on a wide range of topics. Coverage includes important people in the history of gardening and landscaping throughout the ages; specific sites, both historical and existing; surveys of types and styles of gardens; gardening movements; traditions of specific geographic regions; and materials and techniques. Extensive illustration makes use of photographs (both color and black-and white) as well as dozens of line drawings detailing plans, techniques, and tools. Comprehensive in scope, this will be an indispensable reference for teachers and students of garden history, landscape architecture, and archaeology, as well as for professional and amateur gardeners.

    Entries include: African-American Gardening; Animals in Gardens; Bed and Bedding System; Botanical Illustration; Caribbean Islands and West Indies; Children and Gardening; Container Gardening; Darwin, Charles; Design Fundamentals; Education: Landscape Architecture; Film, Garden in; Formal Garden Style; Fruit Garden; Greenhouse; Herb Garden; Herbs: Medicinal; Islamic Gardens; Jefferson, Thomas; Landscape Garden Style; Literature, Garden in; Medieval Garden Style; Music in the Garden; Neoclassicism; Pathways and Paving; Perennials; Politics of Gardening; Religion, Garden in; Roman Gardens; Sculpture in the Garden; Shrubbery; Symbolism in Eastern Gardens; Taj Mahal; Tools, Garden; Tourism and Gardens; Trees; Women as Gardeners; Zoological Garden; and many more.

    Biography

    Candice A. Shoemaker is the former director of the School of the Chicago Botanic Garden. She is currently an Associate Professor of Horticulture at Kansas State University. Her current research involves Human Issues in Horticulture.

    "A sumptuous publication." -- E-Streams
    "One of the finest works of its kind to date." -- Australian Garden History
    "This quintessential reference will be used in academic and large public libraries." -- Choice
    "The best of this season's encyclopedias- a genuine cornucopia..." -- The New York Times
    "A definitive source for garden design and history..." -- Booklist/RBB
    "Useful for the broad range of topics it covers and is recommended for gardening collections." -- Library Journal
    "Any public or college library seeking a basic set to anchor or update the gardening reference shelf would do well to invest in Fitzroy Dearborn's latest contribution to horticulture. For scientists, landscapers, builders, city planners, historians, students, researchers, travelers, and plant lovers, this choice set breaks new ground in reference scholarship." -- American Reference Books Annual