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The Collected Writings of Beatrix Farrand: American Landscape Gardener, 1872-1959

by Beatrix Farrand
edited by Carmen Pearson

University Press of New England, 2009
Cloth: 978-1-58465-793-4
Library of Congress Classification SB457.53.F37 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 712

ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Beatrix Jones Farrand (1872–1959) was among the first professional American women landscape gardeners. One of the founding eleven members of the American Society of Landscape Architects, Farrand believed in using native plant materials to connect the natural and designed landscape. Her papers are archived at the University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum. This volume offers a print version of most of her written work, which includes her gardening diary and a wide selection of essays. The volume also contains a bibliography of additional materials.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

CARMEN PEARSON is the author of Modernism and Mildred Walker.

REVIEWS

“The compendium helps illuminate the inspiration behind some of the 20th century’s most beautiful gardens.”—Old House Journal

”Beatrix Farrand’s passion for plants, critical eye for design, and long-standing commitment to her profession are revealed in this welcome collection of her own writings, some published here for the first time. Carmen Pearson’s book is a welcome addition to studies of one of America’s leading landscape architects.”—Judith B. Tankard, author of Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes

“Seeing gardens and landscapes through Beatrix’s eyes at twenty-something years old in her journal excerpts provides significant insight into the development of her landscape sensibilities. How she viewed both American and European gardens in the company of Professor Sargent, Edith Wharton, and other guides was the foundation of the great professional contribution that was her career.”—Patrick Chassé, Curator of Landscape, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface • Acknowledgments • Editor’s Note • Introduction • The Student of Gardening and Young Professional • Nature’s Landscape Gardening in Maine • Book of Gardening, 1893–1895 • Bridge over the Kent at Levens Hall • Le Nôtre and his Gardens • The Garden as a Picture • The Debt of Landscape Art to a Museum of Trees • The Professional Landscape Gardener Addressing the Issues of Her Day • Landscape Gardening from Vocations for the Trained Woman • The Garden in Relation to the House • Laying Out a Suburban Place • City Parks • Wildflower Protection • Our Christmas Greens • The Consultant for Campus Landscapes and Other Major Institutions • Decoration of Building Walls: Notes on Photographs of Planting at Princeton • Princeton Landscape Gardening • Landscape Gardening at Princeton • The Yale University: The Library Courtyard and Its Fountain • Landscape Gardening at the University of Chicago • Squaring the Circle: A Study of Campus Development • Contemplated Landscape Changes at the Arnold Arboretum • The Azalea Border • Peters Hill • Dumbarton Oaks: An Historical Setting for the Making of History • The Maine Gardener: At Home and at Work at Reef Point Gardens • The National Park on Mount Desert Island • Reef Point Gardens: The Start and the Goal of a Study in Landscape Architecture • Tripterygium Regeli • Climbing Plants in Eastern Maine • Prints at Reef Point Gardens • Reports of Progress, 1952–1953 • Reports of Progress, 1953–1954 • Afterword • Bibliography

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