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Some Foreign Botanical Gardens And Parks, Charles E. Bessey

Landscape Architecture Program: Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activity

Last summer I had the privilege of visiting a number of botanical gardens and parks in different parts of Europe. The American visitor abroad is constantly reminded of the abundance of parks and botanical gardens in not only the larger cities but even in the small cities and towns. Hyde Park, Regent's Park, St. James Park and Green Park, London; Kew Gardens; Thiergarten, Berlin; Prater Park, Vienna; Moscow; Kislovodsk; Vladikavkaz, Tiflis; Erivan; Batum; Odessa.

Coming now to our own city of Lincoln, a city which has many things about it which are very attractive, one'is made to drop his head …

Italian Villas And Their Gardens, Edith Wharton, Maxfield Parrish, Decorative Designers, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Architecture

xii, 270 pages : illustrations (some color). Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Title within ornamental border. "Published November, 1904"--title page verso. "Architects and landscape-gardeners mentioned": pages 253-266. Includes index. Cover board, bound in dark green cloth, has an elaborate image of lions on a pediment stamped in gold. Below the lions is a multi-colored image of a garden and fountain scene. Below this image is a wide gold ornamental base in which the dark green cloth contrasts with the title, author, illustrator information. Cover design by cover design by Decorative …

The Flower Beautiful, Calrence Moores Weed, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Landscape Architecture

x, 136 pages : illus., leaves of plates (incl. front). Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Embossed color illustration on cover. Lowthorpe Collection.

Old Time Gardens, Alice Morse Earle, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Landscape Architecture

xviii, 489 pages : illus., leaves of plates. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Includes index. Stamped, color illustration on cover. c. 1 Lowthorpe Collection.

How To Know The Ferns : A Guide To The Names, Haunts, And Habits Of Our Common Ferns, Frances Theodora Parsons (Mrs. William Starr Dana), Marion Satterlee, Alice Josephine Smith, Special Collections

Landscape Architecture

xiv, 215 p. : ill., front. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Includes indexes. Gift of the Estate of Eleanor M. Phillips

Art Out-Of-Doors, Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer (Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselear), Special Collections, Fleet Library

Landscape Architecture

x, 399 pages. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-399). Lowthorpe Collection Bound in green cloth. Front cover board has an illustration of two stylized trees at crossed angles. A ring circles the cross point of the trees and an open pair of shears and an open compass intertwine the ring.

How To Know The Wild Flowers : A Guide To The Names, Haunts, And Habits Of Our Common Wild Flowers, Mrs. William Starr Dana (Frances Theodora Parsons), Special Collections, Fleet Library

Landscape Architecture

xxxix, 346 p., [48] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.). Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Second edition, with colored plates. 71st thousand. Illustrated by Marion Satterlee and Elsie Louise Shaw.

Landscape Gardening, Samuel Parsons, Alice C. Smith, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Landscape Architecture

xxii, 329 pages : illustrations. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Includes index. Both copies Lowthorpe Collection. Bound in green cloth. Front cover board has a decorative floral motif stamped in gold within a rectangular box, to lower center of the board. Below the title and author are small floral motifs stamped in gold. Floral motifs are stamped in gold on the spine, and a vertical floral border is stamped in gold (a few inches in from the spine) on the front and back cover boards. Binding design by Alice C. …