What Gardens Mean

What Gardens Mean
ISBN-10
0226728226
ISBN-13
9780226728223
Category
Gardening
Pages
271
Language
English
Published
1998-05-13
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Author
Stephanie Ross

Description

This examination of gardens--particulary English gardens of the eighteenth century--offers possible links between garden design and the arts

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