Thomas Jefferson's Flower Garden at Monticello

The restoration of the flower gardens at Monticello in 1941, sponsored by the Garden Club of Virginia, was the result of Edwin Betts's scholarlyresearch and Hazlehurst Perkins's practical gardening skills. Thomas Jefferson'sFlower Garden at Monticello presents the evolution of Jefferson's ornamentalgardening efforts with an analysis of the flower gardens as they were planned, planted, and ultimately restored.No earlyAmerican gardens were as well-documented as those at Monticello, which became anexperimental station, a botanic garden of new and unusual plants from around theworld. Betts and Perkins communicate here the nature and sources of Jefferson'sintelligent venture into ornamental gardening.Thethird edition includes a revised plant list, annotation of the more than 100 speciescultivated in the flower garden, and new illustrations.