"A rich spot of earth" : Thomas Jefferson's revolutionary garden at Monticello / Peter J. Hatch ; foreword by Alice Waters.
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TextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (263 pages) : color illustrationsContent type: - text
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- 1299709362
- 9781299709362
- 0300183402
- 9780300183405
- Thomas Jefferson's revolutionary garden at Monticello
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Homes and haunts -- Virginia
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
- Vegetable gardening -- Virginia
- Monticello (Va.)
- Horticulture potagère -- Virginie
- GARDENING -- Essays
- GARDENING -- Reference
- GARDENING -- Vegetables
- SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Horticulture
- GARDENING -- Regional -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
- Homes
- Vegetable gardening
- Virginia
- Virginia -- Monticello
- 635 23
- SB320.7.V8 H38 2012eb
- Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) Annual Literature Award - Nominee, 2014
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-255) and index.
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Thomas Jefferson's revolutionary garden. "A rich spot of earth" ; Building the garden ; The garden and its people ; The culture of the garden ; The garden restored, the garden today -- Fruits, roots, and leaves : a catalog of selected Monticello vegetables. Fruits : artichokes to tomatoes ; Fruits : beans and peas, Jefferson's "pulse" ; Roots ; Leaves -- Appendix 1. Vegetables mentioned in Thomas Jefferson's Garden Book, correspondence, and memoranda -- Appendix 2. Sources for historic and heirloom vegetables.
Traces the history of Jefferson's vegetable garden, which has been painstakingly restored by the author, from the artichokes and asparagus first planted in 1770 through the horticultural experiments of Jefferson's retirement years.
Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) Annual Literature Award - Nominee, 2014
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