"A rich spot of earth :" Thomas Jefferson's revolutionary garden at Monticello /
Hatch, Peter J., 1949-
"A rich spot of earth :" Thomas Jefferson's revolutionary garden at Monticello / Thomas Jefferson's revolutionary garden at Monticello Peter J. Hatch ; foreword by Alice Waters. - New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2012. - 263 p. : col. ill. ; 24 x 27 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Thomas Jefferson's revolutionary garden. "A rich spot of earth" ; Building the garden ; The garden and its people ; The culture of the garden ; The garden restored, the garden today -- Fruits, roots, and leaves : a catalog of selected Monticello vegetables. Fruits : artichokes to tomatoes ; Fruits : beans and peas, Jefferson's "pulse" ; Roots ; Leaves -- Appendix 1. Vegetables mentioned in Thomas Jefferson's Garden Book, correspondence, and memoranda -- Appendix 2. Sources for historic and heirloom vegetables.
Traces the history of Jefferson's vegetable garden, which has been painstakingly restored by the author, from the artichokes and asparagus first planted in 1770 through the horticultural experiments of Jefferson's retirement years.
0300171145 (clothbound : alk. paper) 9780300171143 (clothbound : alk. paper)
2011038043
016030331 Uk
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 --Homes and haunts--Virginia.
Vegetable gardening--Virginia.
Monticello (Va.)
SB320.7.V8 / H38 2012
SB320.7.V8 / H37 2012
"A rich spot of earth :" Thomas Jefferson's revolutionary garden at Monticello / Thomas Jefferson's revolutionary garden at Monticello Peter J. Hatch ; foreword by Alice Waters. - New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2012. - 263 p. : col. ill. ; 24 x 27 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Thomas Jefferson's revolutionary garden. "A rich spot of earth" ; Building the garden ; The garden and its people ; The culture of the garden ; The garden restored, the garden today -- Fruits, roots, and leaves : a catalog of selected Monticello vegetables. Fruits : artichokes to tomatoes ; Fruits : beans and peas, Jefferson's "pulse" ; Roots ; Leaves -- Appendix 1. Vegetables mentioned in Thomas Jefferson's Garden Book, correspondence, and memoranda -- Appendix 2. Sources for historic and heirloom vegetables.
Traces the history of Jefferson's vegetable garden, which has been painstakingly restored by the author, from the artichokes and asparagus first planted in 1770 through the horticultural experiments of Jefferson's retirement years.
0300171145 (clothbound : alk. paper) 9780300171143 (clothbound : alk. paper)
2011038043
016030331 Uk
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 --Homes and haunts--Virginia.
Vegetable gardening--Virginia.
Monticello (Va.)
SB320.7.V8 / H38 2012
SB320.7.V8 / H37 2012