053 18th Century Gardens - For Use or Delight

Mary Mary, Quite Contrary , How does your Garden Grow?<br /><br />Or more importantly what grows in it, is it geometric or naturalistic, and who's doing the spade work?<br /><br />Gardens in 18th century America run the gamut from pure survival to combining pleasure and purpose, to being show pieces entirely - Just like the Dowager Lady Grantham's<br /><br />Most Important (and very readable) Book for this Episode: <br /><br />Leighton, Anne. _American Gardens in the Eighteenth Century: For Use or Delight_<br />Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976 <br /><br />Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle<br />Show Notes: <a href="https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/" rel="noopener">https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/</a><br />Email: <a href="mailto:TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com">TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com</a> <br />Twitter: @THoAFood<br />Instagram: @THoAFood