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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