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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Garden History"”.
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The secret nature of seeds: science & seed improvement c.1520-1700
… in botanical, agricultural, economic and garden history, what the seed also carries is a social history. The human relationship with the seed is complex, with the seed itself invested with different social and cultural meaning over time, place and periods in history. For the purposes of …
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Growing pains : dealing with excess demand and the conflicting benefits of community gardens in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Community gardens are one of the most popular uses of vacant space in the United States; there are likely over 6,000 operating in the country today. Although only a tiny portion of the population has ever participated in one, people applaud them for a range of benefits including community …
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Chinese Scholar Garden Detail with Grace of Rainwater
… over the world. Replicating the Master of Nets Garden, added in UNESCO World Heritage List in 1997, it was constructed in China, and shipped and assembled here. This first exported garden of the Peony Court is the only part of the garden suitable for the second floor site's limited load …
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The Woman in the Garden: Representations of Femininity and Domestic Gardens in Nineteenth Century Writing and Twentieth Century Film
This thesis will examine the ways in which the garden acts as a space where dominant representational accounts of femininity are both reflected and subverted by critically analysing a range of texts which situate women in the garden. These will include the horticultural publications of Jane Wells …
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Strangers Among Us: Invasive Plants In British Literature, 1669-1800.
… As exotic flora take root in a new market of gardening women in the midcentury, male writers, as Chapter 3 observes, use the rhetoric of the virtuoso to cast aspersions on women who garden as a way to announce their literacy, as exemplified in the writings of Eliza Haywood. Chapter 4 extends …
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Georg Potente (1876-1945) : die Entwicklung vom Gartengestalter zum Gartendenkmalpfleger zwischen 1902 und 1938 in Potsdam-Sanssouci
In der Person von Georg Potente, der von 1902 bis 1938 in Potsdam-Sanssouci tätig war, spiegelt sich eine Entwicklung vom königlichen Ober- und Hofgärtner zum staatlichen Gartendirektor, einem schöpferisch tätigen Gartendenkmalpfleger wider. Sein Schaffen in historischen Gärten ist charakterisiert …