SELECTED SECONDARY SOURCES
Compiled by Pleasance Crawford

Version of 27 October 2004

Adams, Denise Wiles. Restoring American Gardens: An Encyclopedia of Heirloom
Ornamental Plants, 1640-1940. Portland, OR: Timber Press, 2004.

Aslet, Clive. The American Country House.
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1990.
Reviewed in JNEGHS 2.

Clayton, Virginia Tuttle. The Once & Future Gardener: Garden Writing
from the Golden Ago of Magazine, 1900-1940. Boston: David R. Godine, 2000.

Crawford, Pleasance. “The Ontario Home Landscape: 1890-1914.”
Unpublished Wegman Fellowship report, 1981.
*Copies at City of Toronto Archives, Pleasance Crawford Fonds;
Toronto Botanical Garden Library; University of Toronto Libraries,
School of Architecture, Landscape and Design.

Darke, Rick. In Harmony with Nature: Lessons from the Arts and Crafts Garden.
New York: Friedman/Fairfax Publishers, 2000.
Reviewed in JNEGHS 9.

Elliott, Brent. The Country House Garden: From the Archives of Country Life, 1987-1939.
London: Mitchell Beazley (distributed by Antique Collectors’ Club), 1995.
Reviewed in JNEGHS 4.

Griswold, Mac, and Eleanor Weller. The Golden Age of American Gardens,
Proud Owners, Private Estates, 1890-1940.
New York: Harry N. Abrams/The Garden Club of America, 1991.
Reviewed in JNEGHS 2.

Hewitt, Mark Alan. The Architect and the American Country House, 1890-1940.
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1990.
Reviewed in JNEGHS 2.

Hitchmough, Wendy. Arts and Crafts Gardens.
New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1998.
Reviewed in JNEGHS 7.

Legate, Kim D. “Ontario’s Butchart Gardens: The Story of David Martin Butchart’s
‘The Martins,’ A Personal Vision of Paradise.
Unpublished MLA Thesis, University of Guelph Faculty of Graduate Studies, 1995.

Moss, Roger W. The American Country House.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1990.
Reviewed in JNEGHS 2.

Reford, Alexander. “Les Jardins de Métis: Elsie Reford’s Canadian Garden.”
Journal of the New England Garden History Society 9 (2001): 34-44.

Reford, Alexander, and Louise Tanguay. The Reford Garden: Elsie’s Paradise.
Quebec: Les Editions de l’Homme, 2004.

Stilgoe, John R. Borderlands: Origins of the American Suburb, 1820-1939.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.
Reviewed in JNEGHS 1.

Tankard, Judith B. Garden of the Arts and Crafts Movement: Reality and Imagination.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2004.

von Baeyer, Edwinna. Garden of Dreams: Kingsmere and Mackenzie King.
Toronto and Oxford: Dundurn Press, 1990.

von Baeyer, Edwinna. Rhetoric and Roses: A History of Canadian Gardening, 1900-1930.
Markham, ON: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1984.

von Baeyer, Edwinna, and Pleasance Crawford.
Garden Voice: Two Centuries of Canadian Garden Writing.
Toronto: Random House of Canada, 1994; Vintage Canada, 1997.

For additional sources, see
Chronology.

Photo Credit: Detail - Archives of Ontario,
Acc 12851, F 1075, H870, AO 6824.