Popular Annuals of Eastern North America, 1865-1914

Popular Annuals of Eastern North America, 1865-1914

Author: Peggy Cornett Newcomb

Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9780884021384

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Using the evidence of written documents, seed and plant lists, catalogues, and illustrations, the author attempts to show which annuals were popular and how they were used in the fifty-year period following the Civil War. Several commercial seed lists are reproduced to document the changing styles of gardening.