The Golden Age of American Gardens: Proud Owners * Private Estates * 1890-1940

This book is lovely! Full of rare old pictures of gorgeous golden age gardens and a lot of excellent, well-written text. You will learn something about gardens, American history and culture...the whole thing is so elegant and I've spent a great deal of time both reading and simply daydreaming at the images. Buy it! My disclaimer? The fact the authoresses are from the East Coast is embarrasingly obvious; segments on the West are consilliatory at best. Considering the birth of the silver screen, I find it a gross oversight not to include photos of the great Hollywood gardens, save one distant shot of Harold Loyd's estate...a "Golden Age" with no silver screen...?! So if you're from the West Coast or areas between east and west, you might be dissappointed, but the book is wonderful regardless. And we already knew what they thought of our "new money", didn't we?