The Lawn

ISBN: 9781560984061

出版社: Harpercollins

出版年: 1994-4

页数: 246

定价: CDN$ 23.95

装帧: Pap

内容简介

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.