Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter ii
2. Illustrations ix
3. Preface xiii
4. Introduction xvii
5. 1 .The Beginnings: Garden Images in the Seventeenth Century 1
6. 2. Gardens in Early Williamsburg 28
7. 3. John Custis and William Byrd II: Crosscurrents of Virginia Gardening 1720–1750 54
8. 4. Williamsburg Gardens in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century 79
9. 5. The Plantations 100
10. 6. Landscape Gardening at Mount Vernon and Monticello 134
11. 7. Two Gardeners in Williamsburg after the War: Joseph Prentis and St. George Tucker 165
12. Conclusion 182
13. Notes 187
14. Bibliographical Essay 225
15. Index 233