Writing the Garden

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Elizabeth Barlow Rogers. Writing the Garden
Preface
Foreword
Introduction
Women in the Garden
Jane Loudon
Frances Garnet, Viscountess Wolseley
Gertrude Jekyll
Warriors in the Garden
William Robinson
Reginald Blomfield
Rhapsodists in the Garden
Celia Thaxter
Alice Morse Earle
Elizabeth von Arnim
Louise Beebe Wilder
Nurserymen in the Garden
Andrew Jackson Downing
William Paul
Foragers in the Garden
Reginald Farrer
E. A. Bowles
Herbert Durand
Travelers in the Garden
Edith Wharton
Sir George Sitwell
Frederic Eden
Paula Deitz
Humorists in the Garden
Reginald Arkell
Karel Capek
Charles Dudley Warner
Beverley Nichols
Spouses in the Garden
Vita Sackville-West & Harold Nicolson
Margery Fish & Walter Fish
Sir Roy Strong & Julia Trevelyan Oman
Joe Eck & Wayne Winterrowd
Correspondents in the Garden
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Thomas Jefferson
Katharine S. White
Elizabeth Lawrence
Gene Bush
Conversationalists in the Garden
Hugh Johnson
Eleanor Perényi
Robert Dash
Teachers in the Garden
Russell Page
Penelope Hobhouse
Rosemary Verey
Linda Yang
Lynden B. Miller
Philosophers in the Garden
Henry David Thoreau
Michael Pollan
Allen Lacy
Conclusion
Afterword
Selected Bibliography
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It gives us great pleasure to present Writing the Garden: Books from the Collections of The New York Society Library & Elizabeth Barlow Rogers to our members and the public at large. The exhibition, which opened on May 12, 2011, in the Peluso Family Exhibition Gallery, was co-curated by Harriet Shapiro, the New York Society Library’s Head of Exhibitions, and Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, the author of the book you now hold in your hands.
A few words about the history of the New York Society Library are in order here. Founded in 1754 by six prominent New Yorkers—William Smith Jr., William Livingston, John Morin Scott, Philip Livingston, Robert R. Livingston, Sr., and William Alexander—it is the city’s oldest library. Its first home was in the “Library Room” at City Hall; then as the residential city moved uptown from the tip of Manhattan, it relocated in 1856 to 67 University Place and, finally, in 1937 to its current building designed by Trowbridge and Livingston at 53 East 79th Street. Over time the library’s collection has grown from approximately 2,000 books to more than 300,000. Among these are numerous volumes on subjects related to gardens and gardening, a number of which are recognized as literary gems.
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Penetrating deeper into the wood we find ourselves among oaks and birches.
Looking round, the view is here and there stopped by prosperous-looking Hollies, but for the most part one can see a fair way into the wood. In April the wood floor is plentifully furnished with Daffodils. Here, in the region farthest removed from the white Poet’s Daffodil of the upper ground, they are all of trumpet kinds, and the greater number of strong yellow colour. For the Daffodils range through the wood in a regular sequence of kinds that is not only the prettiest way to have them, but that I have often found, in the case of people who did not know their Daffodils well, served to make the whole story of their general kinds and relationships clear and plain; the hybrids of each group standing between the parent kinds; these again leading through other hybrids to further defined species, ending with the pure trumpets. As the sorts are intergrouped at their edges, so that at least two removes are in view at one time, the lesson in the general relationship of kins is easily learnt.
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