CONTENTS 



Foreword vii 



PART I. HISTORICAL 



CHAPTER PAGE 



I Of Beginnings i 



II Spanish Gardens of the Semi-Tropics . . 14 



III Gardens of the English Gentlemen Adven- 



turers 30 



IV New Amsterdam Housewives' Gardens . ,. 56 



V Austere Puritan Gardens 80 



VI Catholic and Quaker Along the Divide . 109 



VII The Presidents' Gardens 132 



PART II. RECONSTRUCTION 



I The Old-Fashioned Garden . . . . .159 



II Design 168 



III Inclosures 183 



IV Old-Time Flowers 200 



V "Anticke" Works 225 



VI The Early Ideals 232 



VII Reproducing the Old-Fashioned Garden . 240 



Bibliography 255 



Index 261 



