Book of Landscape Gardening
Frank A. Waugh
Reprint of the 1926 edition, with a new introduction by Linda Flint McClelland
Library of American Landscape History
| ISBN: 978-1-952620-14-0 | 336 pages | 5.25 x 8 inches |
| $35.00 | Cloth | Published: 10/06/2007 |
| 83 b&w photos and drawings | |
A volume in the ASLA Centennial Reprint Series
The most comprehensive of Frank Albert Waugh’s several published books, and widely considered a classic in the field, Book of Landscape Gardening was first published in 1899 and revised several times. “Landscape gardening is eminently a fine art,” Waugh began each edition of the popular text that became a standard in professional practice. In the chapters that follow, he covers several general principles of design and discusses three basic styles—the natural, the architectural, and the picturesque.
The book achieved its broad appeal by striking a balance between well-known period examples and solutions that could be achieved by the professional designer, highway engineer, estate gardener, or average homeowner. Photographs, many of them taken by Waugh, depict far-ranging landscapes from Europe and Japan to diverse regions of the United States. Several plant lists and an annotated bibliography of landscape design sources accompany the text.
In this edition, a new introduction by historian Linda Flint McClelland examines Waugh’s contributions to landscape architecture during a period of great technological change, growing cultural sophistication, and economic prosperity.
About the Authors
Frank A. Waugh
In 1903, Frank A. Waugh (1869–1943) founded an undergraduate program in landscape gardening at Massachusetts Agricultural College (now UMass Amherst), only the second such program in the nation. Waugh, who had moved to New England in 1895 from his native Midwest, was one of the first practitioners to conceive of a history of American landscape architecture. He was a renowned teacher and horticulturalist as well as a prolific writer on topics ranging from design to pomology, a talented printmaker, photographer, and flutist. Waugh’s writings were rooted in the principles of naturalistic nineteenth-century landscape gardening, but his theories of ecology and design promoted modern applications, solutions that could be achieved by the professional designer, highway engineer, estate gardener, or average homeowner.
Linda Flint McClelland
Linda Flint McClelland, is a historian for the National Park Service and the author of Building the National Parks: Historic Landscape Design and Construction.