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from Brinkley, M. Kent and Gordon W. Chappell. The Gardens of Colonial Williamsburg. Williamsburg, Va.: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1996:

Adams, William Howard. Nature Perfected: Gardens Through History. New York: Abbeville Press, 1991.

Betts, Edwin M., and Hazlehurst Bolton Perkins. Thomas Jefferson's Flower Garden at Monticello. 3rd ed. revised and enlarged by Peter J. Hatch. Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1986.

Betts, Edwin Morris, ed. Thomas Jefferson's Garden Book, 1766-1824. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1944.

Carson, Jane. We Were There: Descriptions of Williamsburg, 1699-1859. Williamsburg, Va.: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1965.

Chambers. Douglas. The Planters of the English Landscape Garden: Botany, Trees, and the Georgics. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1993.

Coats, Alice M. Flowers and their Histories. London: Adam & Charles Black, 1968.

----------. Garden Shrubs and their Histories. Rev. ed. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992.

de Bray, Lys. Lys de Bray's Manual of Old-Fashioned Flowers. Sparkford, Yeovil, Somerset, Eng.: Oxford Illustrated Press, 1984.

de Forest, Elizabeth Kellam. The Gardens & Grounds at Mount Vernon: How George Washington Planned and Planted Them. Mount Vernon, Va.: Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union, 1982.

Dutton, Joan Parry. The Flower World of Williamsburg. Rev. ed. Williamsburg, Va.: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1973.

----------. Plants of Colonial Williamsburg. Williamsburg, Va.: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1979.

Favretti, Rudy J. Gardens & Landscapes of Virginia. Little Compton, R. I.: Fort Church Publishers, Inc., 1993.

Favretti, Rudy F., and Gordon P. DeWolf. Colonial Gardens. Barre, Mass.: Barre Publishers, 1972.

Favretti, Rudy J., and Joy P. Favretti. For Every House A Garden: A guide for reproducing period gardens. Chester, Conn.: Pequot Press, 1977.

Favretti, Rudy J., and Joy Putman Favretti. Landscapes andGardens for Historic Buildings: A handbook for reproducing and creating authentic landscape settings. 2nd rev. ed. Nashville, Tenn.: American Association for State and Local History, 1991.

Frye, Harriet. The Great Forest, John Clayton and Flora: A Narrative Biography of America's First Botanist. Hampton, Va.: Dragon Run Books, 1990.

Gardner, Jo Ann. The Heirloom Garden: Selecting & Growing Over 300 Old-Fashioned Ornamentals. Pownal, Vt.: Storey Communications, Inc., 1992.

Halliwell, Brian. Old Garden Flowers. London: Bishopsgate Press, Ltd., 1987.

Hatch, Peter J. The Gardens of Monticello. Charlottesville, Va.: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, Inc., 1992.

Hedrick, U. P. A History of Horticulture in America to 1860. Reprint ed. Portland, Ore.: Timber Press, 1988.

Hobhouse, Penelope. Gardening Through the Ages: An Illustrated History of Plants and Their Influence on Garden Styles--from Ancient Egypt to the Present Day. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992.

Hussey, Christopher. English Gardens and Landscape 1700-1750. London: Country Life Limited, 1967.

Jabs, Carolyn. The Heirloom Gardener. San Francisco, Calif.: Sierra Club Books, 1984.

Jackson, John Brinckerhoff. Discovering the Vernacular Landscape. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1984.

Jackson-Stops, Gervase. The Country House Garden: A Grand Tour. London: Pavilion Books, Ltd., 1987.

Jacques, David, and Arend Jan van der Horst. The Gardens of William and Mary. London: Christopher Helm, 1988.

Jellicoe, Geoffrey, Susan Jellicoe, Patrick Goode, and Michael Lancaster. The Oxford Companion to Gardens. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Keen, Mary. The Glory of the English Garden. Boston: Little Brown and Co., Inc., 1989.

Kelly, Mary Palmer. The Early English Kitchen Garden. Columbia, S. C.: Garden History Associates, 1984.

Kornwolf, James D. "So Good A Design": The Colonial Campus ofthe College of William and Mary: Its History, Background, and Legacy. Williamsburg, Va.: College of William and Mary Joseph and Margaret Muscarelle Museum of Art, 1989.

Laird, Mark. The Formal Garden: Traditions of Art and Nature. London: Thames and Hudson, Ltd., 1992.

Leighton, Ann. American Gardens in the Eighteenth Century: "For Use or for Delight." Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1976.

----------. Early American Gardens: "For Meate or Medicine." Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1970.

Le Rougetel, Hazel. The Chelsea Gardener: Philip Miller 1691-1771. Portland, Ore.: Sagapress,Inc./Timber Press, Inc., in association with Natural History Publications, London, 1990.

Llewellyn, Roddy. Ornamental English Gardens. New York: Rizzoli, 1990.

Lounsbury, Carl, ed. An Illustrated Glossary of Early Southern Architecture and Landscape. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Lowenthal, David, and Marcus Binney, eds. Our Past Before Us: Why Do We Save It? London: Temple Smith, Ltd., 1981.

Maccubbin, Robert P., and Peter Martin. British and American Gardens in the Eighteenth Century. Williamsburg, Va.: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1984.

Martin, Laura C. Garden Flower Folklore. Chester, Conn.: GlobePequot Press, 1987.

Martin, Peter. The Pleasure Gardens of Virginia: From Jamestown to Jefferson. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1991.

Mathes, Martin C. The Planting of a Campus Tradition: A History of the Landscape of the College of William and Mary. Rev. ed. Williamsburg, Va.: College of William and Mary, 1992.

NoNl Hume, Audrey. Archaeology and the Colonial Gardener. Williamsburg, Va.: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1974.

Pregill, Phillip, and Nancy Volkman. Landscapes in History: Design and Planning in the Western Tradition. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1993.

Proctor Rob. Antique Flowers: Annuals: Yearly Classics for the Contemporary Garden. New York: Harper Collins, 1991.

----------. Antique Flowers: Perennials: Enduring Classics for the Contemporary Garden. New York: Harper & Row, 1990.

Punch, Walter T., ed. Keeping Eden: A History of Gardening in America. Boston: Little Brown and Co., Inc., for the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 1992.

Reps, John W. Tidewater Towns: City Planning in Colonial Virginia and Maryland. Williamsburg, Va.: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1972.

Robinson, William. The English Flower Garden. New York: Amaryllis Press, 1984.

Rose, Graham. The Classic Garden. New York: Summit Books, 1989.

Scott-James, Anne, and Osbert Lancaster. The Pleasure Garden: An Illustrated History of British Gardening. London: John Murray, 1977.

Stilgoe, John R. Common Landscape of America, 1580 to 1845. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1982.

Strong, Roy. The Renaissance Garden in England. London: Thames and Hudson, Ltd., 1979.

Stuart, David, and James Sutherland. Plants from the Past. New York: Viking, 1987.

Taylor, Patrick. Period Gardens: New Life for Historic Landscapes. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991.

Thomas, Graham Stuart, ed. Recreating the Period Garden. Boston: David R. Godine, 1985.

Triggs, H. Inigo. Formal Gardens in England and Scotland. 2nd ed. Woodbridge, Suffolk, Eng.: Antique Collectors' Club, 1988.

Turner, Tom. English Garden Design: History and styles since 1650. Woodbridge, Suffolk, Eng.: Antique Collectors' Club, 1986.

Whiteside, Katherine. Antique Flowers: A Guide to Using Old-Fashioned Species in Contemporary Gardens. New York: Villard Books, 1989.

Williams, Dorothy Hunt. Historic Virginia Gardens: Preservations of the Garden Club of Virginia. Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1975.

Williamsburg's Joseph Prentis: His Monthly Kalender & Garden Book. Chillicothe, Ill.: American Botanist, Booksellers, 1992.

Wright, Richardson. The Story of Gardening: From the Hanging Gardens of Babylon to the Hanging Gardens of New York. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1934.


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