America's romance with the English garden

The British connection

The English garden influence at Williamsburg

Early wealthy Americans and their English landscapes

A short history of the nineteenth-century seed and nursery industries in America

Garden writing from the seed companies and nurseries

The impact of social changes on the seed and nursery industries

Major themes in the catalogs

Gardening and the middle class

The grandest rose of the century

Landscape design according to the catalogs.