All the presidents' gardens : Madison's cabbages to Kennedy's roses : how the White House grounds have grown with America
(2016)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
635.09753/MCDOWELL,M

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 635.09753/MCDOWELL,M Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Portland, Oregon : Timber Press, Inc., 2016
DESCRIPTION

335 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781604695892, 1604695897, 9781604695892, 1604695897 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Prologue: the pursuit of happiness -- Versailles on the Potomac: the 1790s -- Founders' grounds: 1800-1809 -- Gentlemen's occupation: 1810s-1830s -- Embellishments: 1840s-1880s -- Gilded gardens: 1880s-1900s -- Home front: 1910s-1940s -- America the beautiful: 1940s-1990s -- Is green the new red, white, and blue?, 1990s and beyond -- Epilogue -- First gardeners: the men who planted for presidents -- All the presidents' plants: two centuries of shrubs, trees, and vines