Beautiful gardens in America
Beautiful Gardens in America by Louise Shelton, published in New York by Scribner's in 1916, is a plate book of photographed American private gardens, with each plate captioned by garden name, town, and owner. The pictures are sepia halftone photographs of formal and terraced gardens, many shown sideways on the page, with clipped hedges, stone walls, urns, pools, ironwork gates and flowering borders that a designer could draw on for period garden layouts and planting schemes.
