The Gardens & Grounds at Mount Vernon: How George Washington Planned and Planted ThemMount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union, 1982 - 116 Seiten The first state of the first edition, a limited printing of 200 copies, has "Elizabeth Kellam de Forrest" on title page, spine, and dust jacket spine. Some later paperback printings continue the error on the spine alone. |
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... home grounds as Washington had planned them and as he himself , in the last years of his life , saw them . The trees that he had so carefully placed would have attained height , the shrubs spread , his road , lanes and paths would have ...
... home grounds as Washington had planned them and as he himself , in the last years of his life , saw them . The trees that he had so carefully placed would have attained height , the shrubs spread , his road , lanes and paths would have ...
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... Washington and his fellow planters , for they were , after all , frontiersmen , living at the edge of a wilderness and ... the home , controlled . Far better , Washington might have mused , to view nature from the serenity of his east ...
... Washington and his fellow planters , for they were , after all , frontiersmen , living at the edge of a wilderness and ... the home , controlled . Far better , Washington might have mused , to view nature from the serenity of his east ...
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... Washington , Bushrod , 6-7 , 59 , 67 Washington , Fanny Bassett , 74 ... home , 23 , 89 acquires MV , 11 books , 8 death , 93-94 diary entries , 7 ... Washington , George Augustine , 27-28 , 49 , 64 , 87 Washington , Martha , 12 , 50 , 53 ...
... Washington , Bushrod , 6-7 , 59 , 67 Washington , Fanny Bassett , 74 ... home , 23 , 89 acquires MV , 11 books , 8 death , 93-94 diary entries , 7 ... Washington , George Augustine , 27-28 , 49 , 64 , 87 Washington , Martha , 12 , 50 , 53 ...
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The Planting | 23 |
The Garden Enclosures | 47 |
The Lower Garden | 71 |
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