Back into the garden past with this edition of Garden History. The Internet Archive recently added over 14 million new images to the Flickr Commons. These pictures, photos and graphics were culled from their automated OCR scanning books to create digital versions of public domain books. You can read more about the project in this blog post from Boing Boing — Noted: Internet Archive uploads more than 14 million public domain images to Flickr via Boing Boing
Read “The gardens of England in the southern & western counties” (1907) Online
Identifier: cu31924020603829
Title: The gardens of England in the southern & western counties
Authors: Holme, Charles, 1848-1923
Subjects: Gardens
Publisher: London, New York, Offices of “The Studio”
Previously in Garden History:
- Garden History: Every garden deserves a lovely garden gate – Wellington Stanley Morse House 1917
- Our roots are strong and deep – Tree Roots, Saint-Cloud, Eugène Atget
- Painting with plants, Miramar, Newport, Rhode Island, 1930
- Leading you down the garden path, The Farm House, 1930
- The importance of trees (Botanic Garden, Sydney, Australia)
- Sunnie-Holme, Home of Annie Burr Jennings
- “The Dunes,” Frank Bestow Wiborg house, Highway Behind the Pond, East Hampton, New York
- Henry Edwards Huntington house, Oxford Road, San Marino, California. (LOC)
- Pittville Gardens, Cheltenham, England
- “Willowmere,” Rear Admiral Aaron Ward house, 435 Bryant Avenue, Roslyn Harbor, New York (LOC)
- “The Appletrees,” Henry Eugene Coe house, Southampton, New York
- Thornewood, Tacoma, Washington
- Mrs. Francis Lemoine Loring house, 700 South San Rafael Avenue, San Rafael Heights, Pasadena, California. (LOC)
- Tatham Garden
- ‘Santa Barbara Mission, 2201 Laguna Street, Santa Barbara, California. (LOC)
- Your victory garden counts more than ever!
- “Villa Sciarra,” George Wurts house, via Calandrelli, Rome, Italy. (LOC)
- Whitworth Gardens, Darley Dale, Derbyshire, England
- John & Lizzie Wilson from Boston in Bradenton, Florida, 1951
- Paris Exposition: gardens, Paris, France, 1900
- Wisteria blooms in Davis Garden (Locust Valley, New York), 1930
- “Killenworth,” George Dupont Pratt house, Glen Cove, New York, ca. 1918
- A Garden Under Glass, Nice, France, c1865-1895
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