Product Description
Money, Manure, and Maintenance were the three ingredients necessary for successful gardens, according to Marian Coffin, a pioneer landscape architect in the first half of the 20th century. The book contains many illustrations of Coffin's garden designs, including Delaware estates: Winterthur, Mt. Cuba, and Gibraltar, as well as the King's Garden at Ft. Ticonderoga, and other estate gardens and campuses.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 2 reviews)

Very complete and informative

I began reading this book as a reference for a class and have found it to be very interesting. The class is; "Women and their Art" at the University of Oregon. This book tied directly with my own personal interest of Landscape design and the struggle that Marian Crueger Coffin had to endure. Thank you for putting this all together.
October 26, 1999

Photographs and plans of historic gardens make this book!

Marian Coffin was trained as landscape architect at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Class of 1904. Since no office would hire her because she was a woman, she hung up her own shingle in New York City and designed landscapes for half a century. The most well known Coffin-designed gardens open to the public are Winterthur, the Henry Francis du Pont Museum and Gardens, Mt. Cuba, also in Wilmington, Delaware, and The King's Garden at Fort Ticonderoga, New York. There are photographs on just about every page in addition to endnotes, bibliography, list of clients, and a detailed index. I'm the author and would love to hear from readers interested in landscape design during the Country Place Era.
December 20, 1997

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