Keeping Eden by Walter T. Punch
When Columbus first set foot on a lushly overgrown, garden-like island, did he imagine the vastness and variety of the land in the continent on whose threshold he stood? This land has been host to countless gardens since. With text essays by many of America's foremost garden writers this book celebrates gardens and gardening - from the agriculture of the native Americans and the first European settlers to the elegant and sophisticated landscape design of the 20th century.