Science Reference Guides
GENERAL WORKS
Hollingsworth, Buckner. Her garden was her delight.
New York, Macmillan, 1962. 166 p.
Bibliography: p. 160-166.
SB61.H6
The Illustrated book of women gardeners. Edited by Deborah Kellaway.
Boston, Little Brown, c1997. 223 p.
SB455.I6 1997
Plumptre, George. The garden makers: the great tradition of
garden design from 1600 to the present day. New York, Random House, c1993.
240 p.
Bibliography: p. 236-237.
SB61.P58 1993
Wilson, Andrew. Influential gardeners: the designers who shaped 20th-century
garden style. New York, Clarkson Potter/Publishers, c2002. 192 p
SB469.9.W56 2002 <SciRR>
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BOOKS BY AND ABOUT INDIVIDUAL WOMEN
Jane Colden
Colden, Jane. Botanic manuscript. Edited by H. W. Rickett and Elizabeth C. Hall.
New York, Garden Club of Orange and Dutchess Counties, New York, 1963. 205
p.
QK41.C58
Brenda Colvin
Colvin, Brenda, and Jacqueline Tyrwhitt. Trees for town and country: a selection
of sixty trees suitable for general cultivation in England. London, L. Humphries,
1947. 132 p.
SB435.A86
Anne Ophelia Dowden
Dowden, Anne Ophelia Todd. This noble harvest: a chronicle of herbs. New York,
Collins, 1979. 80 p.
SB351.H5D67
Helena Rutherford Ely
Ely, Helena Rutherford. A woman’s hardy garden. New York, London, The
Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1903. 216 p.
SB454.E48
Beatrix Farrand
Balmori, Diana, Diane Kostial McGuire, and Eleanor M. McPeck. Beatrix Farrand’s
American landscapes: her gardens and campuses. Sagaponack, NY, Sagapress; Millwood,
NY, distributed by Kraus R. and P., c1985. 215 p.
The Wave Hill exhibition of Beatrix Farrand’s American Landscapes, April
21, 1985-August 4, 1985.
Bibliography: p. 203-208.
SB470.F37B35 1985
Beatrix Jones Farrand (1872-1959): fifty years of American
landscape architecture, Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the
History of Landscape Architecture, VIII. Edited by Diane
Kostial McGuire and Lois Fern. Washington, Dumbarton Oaks
Trustees for Harvard University, 1982. 142 p.
SB470.F37D85 1980
Farrand, Beatrix. Beatrix Farrand’s Plant book for Dumbarton Oaks. Edited
by Diane Kostial McGuire. Washington, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard
University, 1980. 148 p.
Also available online through Dumbarton Oaks:
http://www.doaks.org/MCFPP.html
SB466.U7D853
Brown, Jane. Beatrix: the gardening life of Beatrix Jones Farrand, 1872-1959.
New York, Viking, 1995. 252 p.
Bibliography: p. 244-245.
SB470.F37B76 1995
Margery Fish
Chivers, Susan, and Suzanne Woloszynska. The cottage garden: Margery Fish
at East Lambrook Manor. London, J. Murray, 1990. 124 p. SB466.G8E27 1990
Fish, Margery. Cottage garden flowers. Sterling, VA, Capital
Books, c2001. 111 p.
SB406.G7F57 2001
Fish, Margery. We made a garden. Foreword by Henry Boyd-Carpenter.
London, Boston, Faber and Faber, 1983, c1956. 120 p.
SB466.G8E273 1983
Penelope Hobhouse
Hobhouse, Penelope. A book of gardening: a practical guide. Boston, Little,
Brown, c1986. 256 p.
SB453.3.G7H63 1986
Hobhouse, Penelope. Borders. London, Pavilion; Kensington, M.
Joseph, 1989. 112 p.
SB424.H63 1989
Hobhouse, Penelope. The country gardener. Oxford, Phaidon, 1976.
190 p.
Bibliography: p. 183-184.
SB472.H5
Gertrude Jekyll
Bisgrove, Richard. The gardens of Gertrude Jekyll. Boston, Little Brown, c1992.
192 p.
SB470.J38B57 1992
Brown, Jane. Gardens of a golden afternoon: the story of
a partnership, Edwin Lutyens & Gertrude Jekyll. New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold,
1982. 208 p.
SB469.9.B76 1982
Gunn, Fenja. Lost gardens of Gertrude Jekyll. New York, Maxwell
Macmillan International, c1991. 144 p.
SB473.G86 1991
Jekyll, Gertrude. Colour in the flower garden. London, Country Life Ltd., 1908.
148 p.
SB454.J4
Jekyll, Gertrude. Garden ornament. London, Offices of Country
Life; New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1918. 460 p.
SB466.G7J495 1918
Jekyll, Gertrude. Gertrude Jekyll on gardening. Edited with a
commentary by Penelope Hobhouse. London, National Trust, W. Collins,
336 p.
Bibliography: p. 322-323.
SB473.J34 1983
Jekyll, Gertrude. The making of a garden: Gertrude Jekyll,
an anthology of her writings illustrated with her own photographs
and drawings, and watercolours by contemporary artists. Compiled
and edited by Cherry Lewis. Woodbridge, Suffolk, Antique Collector’s
Club, 1985 (1989 printing). 167 p.
SB455.3.J455 1985
Jekyll, Gertrude. Wall and water gardens. New York, C. Scribner’s
Sons, 1901. 177 p.
SB454.J5 1901
Massingham, Betty. Gertrude Jekyll: an illustrated life of
Gertrude Jekyll, 1843-1932. Aylesbury, Shire Publications, 1975. 48 p.
SB63.J4M37
Tankard, Judith B. and Martin A. Wood. Gertrude Jekyll at
Munstead Wood: writing, horticulture, photography, homebuilding. Foreword
by Graham Stuart Thomas. Gloucestershire, Sutton Pub.; Sagaponack
NY, Sagapress, 1996. 201 p.
Bibliography: p. 193-196.
SB466.G8M868 1996
Wallinger, Rosamund. Gertrude Jekyll’s lost garden: the
restoration of an Edwardian masterpiece. Woodbridge, Garden Art
Press, c2000. 215 p.
SB470.J38W35 2000
Mrs. Francis (Louisa) King
King, Francis, Mrs. The flower garden day by day. Foreword by Gertrude Jekyll.
New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1927. 210 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
SB405.K5
King, Francis, Mrs. The little garden: with illustrations
and tables. Boston, The Atlantic Monthly Press, c1921. 94 p.
SB453.K3
King, Francis, Mrs., and John Fothergill. The gardener’s colour book.
New York, A. A. Knopf, 1929. 46p.
SB453.K27
Jane Webb Loudon
Gathorne-Hardy, Robert. Garden flowers from plates by Jane Loudon. London,
New York, B. T. Batsford, 1948. 12 p.
SB407.G35
Howe, Bea. Lady with green fingers: the life of Jane Loudon.
London, Country Life, 1961. 184 p.
SB63.L6H6
Loudon, J. C. In search of English gardens: the travels of
John Claudius Loudon and his wife Jane. Edited by Priscilla Boniface.
Wheathampstead, Lennard Pub., 1987. 256 p.
SB466.G75E5555 1987
Loudon, Jane. The ladies’ flower-garden of ornamental bulbous plants.
2nd ed. London, W. S. Orr & Co., 1849. 270 p.
SB407.L884
Loudon, Mrs. Botany for ladies, or a popular introduction
to the natural system of plants, according to the classification
of
De Candolle. London, J. Murray, 1842. 493 p.
QK94.L8
Loudon, Mrs. The lady’s magazine of gardening. London, W. Smith, 1842.
1 v.
SB450.9.L68 Rosenwald Coll <Rare Book RR>
Frances Theodora Parsons (Mrs. William Starr Dana)
Parsons, Frances Theodora. According to season. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1990.
175 p.
Originally published New York, C. Scribner’s Sons, 1902.
QK118.P2 1990
Parsons, Frances Theodora. How to know the wild flowers:
a guide to the names, haunts, and habits of our common wild flowers. New
York, C. Scribner’s Sons, 1895. 373 p.
QK118.P24 1895
Vita Sackville-West
Brown, Jane. Vita’s other world: a gardening biography of V. Sackville-West.
Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Eng., New York, Viking, c1985. 239 p.
SB63.S33B76 1985
Sackville-West, V. Some flowers. Watercolors by Graham Rust. New York, H. N.
Abrams, 1993. 111 p.
SB407.S265 1993
Ellen Biddle Shipman
Tankard, Judith B. The gardens of Ellen Biddle Shipman. Sagaponack, NY, Sagapress,
in association with the Library of American Landscape History; New York,
distributed by H. N. Abrams, c1996. 230 p.
Bibliography: p. 213-221.
SB470.S48T36 1996
Rosemary Verey
Verey, Rosemary. Classic garden design: how to adapt and recreate garden
features of the past. New York, Congdon & Weed; distributed by St. Martin’s
Press, c1984. 160 p.
SB472.V45 1984
Verey, Rosemary. The garden in winter. Portland, OR, Timber Press,
1995. 168 p.
SB439.5.V47 1995 <SciRR>
Verey, Rosemary. Good planting. London, F. Lincoln, c1990. 168 p.
SB473.V475 1990
Anna Bartlett Warner
Constitution Island; Compiled for the meeting of the Garden
Club of America by the Constitution Island Association Inc. Newburgh, NY, Moore Printing
Co., Inc. 1936. 37 p.
Susan and Anna Warner, ‘the Bronte sisters of America’, p. 9-15.
F127.C2C63
Warner, Anna Bartlett. Gardening by myself. New York, A. D. F. Randolph & Co.,
1872. 223 p.
SB405.W3 1872
Louise Beebe Wilder
Wilder, Louise Beebe. Colour in my garden. Garden City, NY, Doubleday, Page,
1918. 410 p.
SB454.W6
Wilder, Louise Beebe. The fragrant path: a book about sweet
scented flowers and leaves. New York, The Macmillan Co., 1932. 407 p.
Bibliography: p. 377-378.
SB454.W63 1974
Compiled by Alison P. Kelly
March 2006
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