Of Gardens. Paula Deitz

      Paula Deitz

      Afterword by John Dixon Hunt

      University of Pennsylvania Press • Philadelphia • Oxford

      PENN STUDIES IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

      John Dixon Hunt, Series Editor

      This series is dedicated to the study and promotion of a wide variety of approaches to landscape architecture, with special emphasis on connections between theory and practice. It includes monographs on key topics in history and theory, descriptions of projects by both established and rising designers, translations of major foreign-language texts, anthologies of theoretical and historical writings on classic issues, and critical writing by members of the profession of landscape architecture. The series was the recipient of the Award of Honor in Communications from the American Society of Landscape Architects, 2006.

      Copyright © 2011 Paula Deitz

      Some of the articles in this book originally appeared in the New York Times, and are reprinted here with permission.

      Title page photograph: Fred R. Conrad, Pleached crab apple tree arbor, Oak Spring Farms, Upperville, Virginia. The New York Times/Redux.

      All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations used for purposes of review or scholarly citation, none of this book may be reproduced in any form by any means without written permission from the publisher.

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      Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Deitz, Paula.

      Of gardens: selected essays / Paula Deitz.—1st ed.

      p. cm.—(Penn studies in landscape architecture)

      Includes index.

      ISBN 978-0-8122-4266-9 (hardcover: alk. paper)

      1. Gardens. 2. Gardens—History. 3. Gardens—Design—History. 4. Landscape architecture—History. I. Title. II. Series: Penn studies in landscape architecture.

      SB465.D44 2010

      635—dc22

      2010021357

       For Fred, in loving memory

      Wild blossoms on the river banks

      sway yellow in the rising wind:

      see—their images loom too,

      deep in the watery clarities.

      —Frederick Morgan, “Recollections of Japan,”

       from The One Abiding, 2003