House & garden's book of gardens; containing over four hundred illustrations of special flower types, plans and suggestions for landscape work, a complete gardener's calendar of the year's activities, planting and spraying tables, and a portfolio of beautiful gardens in varied sections of the United States and foreign countries (1921)
Wright, Richardson Little, 1887-1961 · New York, C. Nast & Company · leaf 39
sfied with theungentle mi.xtures of colorwhich the old gardens dis-played. There are distinct kindsof old gardens in each sec-tion of the country. Inthe extreme South is theSpanish tj^pe, a walled en-closure of simple thoughformal design, with roses,heliotrope and carnations,oranges and lemons,… … In the oldfaihioned garden flowers straggled informally over the walks, their back-ground of tail shrubs lending an air of length and seclusion. These gardens, the planand the text are the work of Elizabeth Leonard Strang, landscape architect of the Colonies, the earliest gardens were…
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