RE: Californian Gardens
- Subject: RE: Californian Gardens
- From: bridget lamp b*@yahoo.com
- Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:29:46 -0800 (PST)
For those who are in the Seattle area, this book is at
the Elisabeth Miller Library at the Ctr for Urban
Horticulture.
cheers!
bridget
--- Bracey Tiede <tiede@pacbell.net> wrote:
> Yes, Tim, I've got it and have heard Judith talk
> about the book. She's a SF
> Bay Area resident. It's like a collection of short
> stories about various
> gardens around California. Judith took the papers
> and notes of Harry
> Butterfield of the University of California about
> mostly California plant
> breeders, horticulture and public gardens and pulled
> them together into this
> volume. I had the book at one point but can't find
> it this morning. The
> section on San Jose (my town) was thin even though
> it was the rose capital
> of the Western US as well as the Valley of Heart's
> Delight (orchards) in the
> early 1900's. I remember it being more about
> people/nurserymen rather than
> gardens. Wish I could find it.
>
> For more about Harry's books, see
>
http://www.sil.si.edu/SILPublications/seeds/bibseednur.html
>
> Happy New Year to you too.
>
> Cheers,
> Bracey
> San Jose
>
> _____
>
> From: tim.longville@btinternet.com
> [t*@btinternet.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 4:27 AM
> To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
> Subject: Californian Gardens
>
>
> Does anyone know the book Tangible Memories:
> Californians and their Gardens,
> 1800-1950, written by Judith Taylor and published in
> 2003 by Xlibris,
> Philadelphia? There are 474 pages of it so it's
> certainly substantial! Is it
> also good? Comments, pro or con, but frank in either
> direction, much
> appreciated!
>
> And a happy new year to everyone!
>
> says Anything-but-Tiny Tim...
>
>
>
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