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The 1890s saw a revolution in advertising. Cheap paper, faster printing, rural mail delivery, railroad shipping, and chromolithography combined to pave the way for the first modern, mass-produced catalogs. The most prominent of these, reaching American households by the thousands, were seed and nursery catalogs with beautiful pictures of middle-class homes surrounded by sprawling lawns, exotic plants, and the latest garden accessories-in other words, the quintessential English-style garden. America's Romance with the English Garden is the story of tastemakers and homemakers, of savvy business
Gardens, English --- Seed industry and trade --- Seed trade --- Plant products industry --- Bric-a-brac gardens, English poetic --- English gardens --- English landscape gardens --- English natural gardens --- English picturesque gardens --- English poetic bric-a-brac gardens --- Landscape gardens, English --- Natural gardens, English --- Picturesque gardens, English --- Poetic bric-a-brac gardens, English --- Gardens --- Landscape architecture --- Landscape gardening --- History. --- Styles
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Provides readers with fresh insights into the country house and the ways it was shaped by domestic and foreign travel. It brings famous and less familiar houses to life through the aspirations and acquisitions of owners; the admiring or caustic comments of visitors, and the constant flows of goods, people and ideas.
Travel --- Country homes. --- Civilization --- Civilization. --- HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain. --- HOUSE & HOME --- ARCHITECTURE --- Country homes --- Traveling --- Travelling --- Tourism --- Voyages and travels --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Barbarism --- Civilisation --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Culture --- World Decade for Cultural Development, 1988-1997 --- Architecture, Rural --- Rural architecture --- Dwellings --- Park gate lodges --- Social aspects. --- European influences. --- Design & Construction. --- Residential. --- Social aspects --- History --- Design and construction --- Great Britain. --- Great Britain --- Architecture, Primitive --- Anglia --- Angliyah --- Briṭanyah --- England and Wales --- Förenade kungariket --- Grã-Bretanha --- Grande-Bretagne --- Grossbritannien --- Igirisu --- Iso-Britannia --- Marea Britanie --- Nagy-Britannia --- Prydain Fawr --- Royaume-Uni --- Saharātchaʻānāčhak --- Storbritannien --- United Kingdom --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland --- Velikobritanii͡ --- Wielka Brytania --- Yhdistynyt kuningaskunta --- Northern Ireland --- Scotland --- Wales --- Architecture. --- British consciousness. --- British country house. --- Consumption. --- Country house. --- European travellers. --- Frederick Hervey. --- Gardens. --- Grand Tour. --- Guidebooks. --- Hanbury's journals. --- Indian objects. --- Mary Mackenzie. --- Material culture. --- Scattergood's journals. --- Scotland. --- Taste. --- Travel journals. --- Travel. --- ancient Rome. --- eighteenth-century Britain. --- elite travel. --- landscape gardens.
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