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9781560984061

The Lawn A History of an American Obsession

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    9781560984061

  • ISBN10:

    1560984066

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1994-04-17
  • Publisher: Smithsonian Books
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Summary

Lawns now blanket thirty million acres of the United States, but until the late nineteenth century few Americans had any desire for a front lawn, much less access to seeds for growing one. In her comprehensive history of this uniquely American obsession, Virginia Scott Jenkins traces the origin of the front lawn aesthetic, the development of the lawn-care industry, its environmental impact, and modern as well as historic alternatives to lawn mania.

Author Biography

Virginia Scott Jenkins is a scholar in residence at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels, Maryland.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1(8)
PART ONE Americans Adopt the Front-Lawn Aesthetic
The Introduction of Lawns to America
9(26)
Garden Clubs, Golf, and the USDA
35(28)
Advertising the Front Lawn
63(28)
PART TWO The Democratization of the Lawn
The Growth of the American Lawn-Care Industry
91(26)
Men, Women, and Front Lawns
117(16)
The War Between Man and Nature
133(26)
The Age of High-Tech Horticulture
159(24)
Conclusion 183(6)
Notes 189(50)
Index 239

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