*** The links below connect to sites devoted to garden and landscape history. The sites are uneven -- some are more informative than others. Please e-mail me any interesting links you find. ***
Want to uncover the history of a landscape or garden? Don't know how or where to begin? Don't know how to research efficiently and effectively? Don't know the best sources to use to find the garden or landscape information you need?
Whether you are searching in a library or archive, or on the Web, Down the Garden Path: A Guide for Researching the History of a Garden or Landscape will lead you through the process!
Whether you are an individual or a member of an organization, society, or government wishing to document a city, town, regional or national landscape, Down the Garden Path: A Guide for Researching the History of a Garden or Landscape will help you learn the important research techniques you need.
Whether you are researching a private home garden or a city park, Aboriginal hunting grounds or a city subdivision, Down the Garden Path: A Guide for Researching the History of a Garden or Landscape will help you learn where to go and what sources to use and how to design a research plan that will help you fill out the history of your site.
Edwinna von Baeyer has drawn on her 30 years of experience researching and writing landscape histories in writing this guide.
Other books written by Edwinna von Baeyer are also available. Please click here for a full list.
Virtual photograph gallery of major Euopean gardens and their components; some interpretive text; searchable database on influence, plant type, geographic location, etc.
The architecture of the renaissance in France, a history of the evolution of the arts of building, decoration and garden design under classical influence from 1495 to 1830, by London : B. T. Batsford, ca. 1911. Vol. I.Vol. II.
ArchNet - Digital Library - History: online community for architects, planners, urban designers, landscape architects with a special focus on the Islamic world
Looking for plans and pictorial sources, Environmental Design Library, Univ. of California, Berkeley -- views, plans, sections, elevations or details of important buildings and sites.
The origin and history of our garden vegetables, to which is added their dietetic values, by Henslow, George, 1835-1925. London, Pub. for the Author by the Royal Horticultural Society, 1912.
My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history, by Smee, Alfred, 1818-1877. London, Bell and Daldy, 1872.
A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, adapted to North America: with a view to improvement of country residences...; with remarks on rural architecture, by Downing, Andrew Jackson, 1815-1852. New York: A.O. Moore & Co., 1859.
The new American orchardist; or, An account of the most valuable varieties of fruit, of all climates, adapted to cultivation in the United States; with their history, modes of culture, management, uses, & c. With an appendix on vegetables, ornamental trees, shrubs, and flowers, the agricultural resources of America, and on silk, etc., by Kenrick, William, 1789-1872. Boston: Otis, Broaders and Company, 1842.
The Australasian fruit culturist, containing full and complete information as to the history, traditions, uses, propagation and culture of such fruits as are suitable to Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, Queensland, Western Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand, by Crichton, David Alexander. Melbourne: A. M'Kinley, 1893.
Gardens in the making, by Godfrey, Walter Hindes, b. 1881. [London]: B. T. Batsford, Ltd., [1914].
Ornamental Gardening for Americans: A treatise on beautifying homes, rural districts, towns & cemeteries, by Long, Elias A. New York : Orange Judd Company, [c1884].
Landscape Architecture, as applied to the wants of the West: with an essay on forest planting on the Great Plains, by Cleveland, Horace William Shaler, 1814-1900. Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Co., 1873.
Analyzing the Cultural Landscape of Beidha with the Assistance of Remote Sensing Data: Some Findings of Relevance to the Chronology of Natufian and Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Occupations, by Douglas C. Comer, Ph.D.
Cultural Landscapes, Library of Congress -- "the maps show the cultural modification of a physical landscape as settlers established their farmsteads and villages, constructed the connecting transportation systems, and named their surroundings
Hortus Veitchii: A history of the rise and progress of the nurseries of Messrs. James Veitch and sons, together with an account of the botanical collectors and hybridists employed by them and a list of the most remarkable of their introductions by Veitch, James Herbert. London: J. Veitch & Sons, 1906.
Thomas Church, landscape architect: oral history transcript and related material, 1975-1978. [Bancroft, California]: Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office, 2006 . Vol. I. Vol. II.
Geraldine Knight Scott, 1904-1989, A woman in Landscape Architecture in California, 1926-1989: oral history transcript. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California, ca. 1990.
History of Horticulture, Jules Janick, Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, USA -- read the PowerPoint files or the pdf files.
The Australasian fruit culturist, containing full and complete information as to the history, traditions, uses, propagation and culture of such fruits as are suitable to Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, Queensland, Western Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand, by Crichton, David Alexander. Melbourne: A. M'Kinley, 1893.
Hortus Veitchii: A history of the rise and progress of the nurseries of Messrs. James Veitch and sons, together with an account of the botanical collectors and hybridists employed by them and a list of the most remarkable of their introductions by Veitch, James Herbert. London: J. Veitch & Sons, 1906.
Tomato Culture: A practical treatise on the tomato, its history, characteristics, planting, fertilization, cultivation in field, garden, and green house, harvesting, packing, storing, marketing, insect enemies and diseases, with methods of control and remedies, etc., by Tracy, William Warner. New York: O. Judd Company, 1907.
The new American orchardist; or, An account of the most valuable varieties of fruit, of all climates, adapted to cultivation in the United States; with their history, modes of culture, management, uses, & c. With an appendix on vegetables, ornamental trees, shrubs, and flowers, the agricultural resources of America, and on silk, etc., by Kenrick, William, 1789-1872. Boston: Otis, Broaders and Company, 1842.
The Rose Garden, in two divisions: Division I. Embracing the history of the poetry of the rose, the formation of the rosarium, and a detailed account of the various practices adopted in the successful cultivation of this popular flower : Division II. Containing an arrangement, in natural groups, of the most esteemed varieties of roses recognized and cultivated in the various rose gardens, English and foreign; with full description and remarks on their origin and mode of culture, by Paul, William. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1903.
Peas and Pea Culture: A practical and scientific discussion of peas, relating to the history, varieties, cultural methods, insects and fungous pests, with special chapters on the canned pea industry, peas as forage and soiling crops, garden peas, sweet peas, seed breeding, etc. Sevey, Glenn Cyrus. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1911.
Elliott's Fruit Book; or, the American fruit-grower's guide in orchard and garden. Being a compend of the history, modes of propagation, culture, &c., of fruit trees and shrubs, with descriptions of nearly all the varieties of fruits cultivated in this country; notes of their adaptation to localities and soils, and also a complete list of fruits worthy of cultivation Elliott, Franklin Reuben. New York: C.M. Saxton, 1854.
The Illustrated Strawberry Culturist: Containing the history, sexuality, field and garden culture of strawberries, forcing or pot culture, how to grow from seed, hybridizing, and all other information necessary to enable everybody to raise their own strawberries, by Fuller, Andrew Samuel. New York: O. Judd, 1887.
Ferns: British & foreign: The history, organography, classification, and enumeration of the species of garden ferns with a treatise on their cultivation, etc., by Smith, John, 1798. London: D. Bogue, 1879.
Bulbs and Tuberous-rooted Plants: Their history, description, methods of propagation and complete directions for their successful culture in the garden, dwelling and greenhouse, by Allen, Charles Linnaeus, 1828-1909. New York: Orange Judd Company [c1893] 1909.
