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Carolina gardens; the history, romance and tradition of many gardens of two States through more than two centuries.
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Carolina gardens; the history, romance and tradition of many gardens of two States through more than two centuries.

Author: Edward Terry Hendrie Shaffer
Publisher: New York] Devin-Adair Co., 1963.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : [3d ed
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Edward Terry Hendrie Shaffer
OCLC Number: 971495
Description: 326 p. illus. 23 cm.
Contents: Plantation backgrounds: Rice, indigo, cotton, Sea Island cotton, live oaks --
Famous colonial gardens: The Garden of Michaux, Skieveling, Cedar Grove, Oak Forest, Tranquil Hill, Newington, Bloomfield, The Elms, The Oaks, Crowfield --
The return of plantation land --
Garden tradition in Carolina --
Gardens of the coast: The Ashley River Gardens, Drayton hall, Ashley Hall, Magwood, Magnolia Gardens, Runnymede Gardens, Middleton Gardens, Cooper River and Goose Creek Gardens, Cypress Garden at Dean Hall Plantation, Mulberry Castle, Medway, Exeter, Fair Lawn and Wadboo Baronies, Brabant, Camp Vere, Middleburg, Pompion Hill Chapel, Fenwick Hall, Cherokee Plantation, Airy Hall, Bonnie Doone, Marsh-Laurel Spring-Oakland, Brook Green Garden, Georgetown, Belle Isle Garden, Harrietta, Charleston: "city of enchanted gardens", Beaufort, Up the coast to Wilmington, Orton Plantation, The Garden of Airlie --
Pineland and Sandhill gardens: Summerville, Hartsville, Kalmia Garden, Orangeburg, Saint Matthews, Camden, Mulberry House, Milford, Sumter, Swan Lake Iris Garden, Stateburg: The Garden of Borough House, Aiken, Redcliffe --
Piedmont gardens: Columbia, Greenville, Sans Souci, Choasset, Spartanburg, Green River Plantation, Belmont, Cross Keys House, The House of Gist, Rosemont, The Boxwoods --
Alpine gardens: Fletcher, Flat Rock, The Garden of de Choiseul, Little River Road, Down Saluda Mountain, Tyron, Pearson Falls, Asheville, Biltmore Estate --
Gardens of inspiration: A garden of birds, A garden of dreams, Hampton, Dawn Hill.
Responsibility: Foreword by DuBose Heyward.

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