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These links connect to sites devoted to garden and landscape history. The sites are uneven -- some are more informative than others. Please e-mail me any interesting links you find.

Canadian gardens and landscapes

• Friends of Maplelawn Garden, Ottawa, Ontario. Information available in French and English
• Histories of Landscape Architecture in Canada, conference papers, March 26 to 28 1998. Canadian Society of Landscape Architects
• Le Jardin de M師is, Quebec
• Butchart Gardens, British Columbia
• Miraloma, an Arts and Crafts Movement-influenced garden in Victoria, British Columbia.
• Envisioning Yuan Ming Yuan (Garden of Centred Wisdom) Xing Xing
• Cultivating Canadian Gardens -- an exhibit at the National Library of Canada
• Hatley Park, Victoria, British Columbia
• International Peace Garden, on the border between Manitoba, Canada and North Dakota, USA
• Gardens of the Fortress of Louisbourg, Nova Scotia.
  History of gardens at this 18th century French fortress
• VanDusen Botanical Garden, Vancouver
• Wychwood Park and the Garden, Toronto
• Point Ellice House and Garden, British Columbia
• University of British Columbia, Nitobe Memorial Garden
• Allen Gardens, Toronto, Ontatario
• Kurimoto Japanese Garden, University of Alberta, Devonian Botanic Garden
• Landscape architecture in Alberta: The evolution of a profession, James R. Taylor
  
  

American gardens and landscapes

• So Fine a Prospect: Historic New England Gardens
• Ashland Garden, Kentucky
• The Pavilion Gardens, University of Virginia -- Thomas Jefferson's gardens
• The Lawn Tour -- gardens of the University of Virginia
• Reynolda Gardens, North Carolina
• History of community gardening in Philadelphia
• The Gardens of Colonial Williamsburg and garden designs
• Cornell Plantations Path Guide
• Bellingrath Gardens, Alabama
• Atlanta History Center -- historic homes and gardens
• Biltmore Estate, North Carolina -- house and grounds
• Hannah Carter Japanese Garden, California - History
• Filoli Gardens, California
• The Hearst Castle Gardens, California
• The garden at Claymont Court, Virginia
• Monticello gardens, Virginia
• Stratford, Virginia, garden history
• Bartram Gardens, Philadelphia
• Longwood Gardens, Pennsylvania
• Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, USA
• Tryon Palace Gardens, North Carolina
• Historical Report for the Longfellow Garden, Maine
• Italianate gardens of Maine, by Theresa Mattor
• Italianate remnants of the Hyde Estate, Maine, by Theresa Mattor
• History of Yellowstone National Park
• Historic Deepwood Estate, Salem, Oregon
• Luther Burbank Home & Gardens, California
• Baron Makoto Hagiwara, Japanese Tea Garden, San Francisco, California
• Eugene's Landscape History, Oregon
• Thomas Jefferson, Monticello

European gardens and landscapes

• 18th century resources on the net including landscape gardening
• Gardens and botanical regions of Szabolcs-Szatmar-Bereg
• Alhambra Gardens in Granada, Spain
• Garden History of European Gardens
• Schoenbrunn Palace Gardens, Germany
• European Garden History -- tour of European gardens
• The Enchanted Gardens of the Renaissance
• Gardens, villas and social life in Renaissance Florence, Professor F.W. Kent
• Het Loo Palace, Netherlands
• Keukenhof Gardens, Netherlands
• Beloeil, Belgium
• Boboli Gardens, Florence, Italy
• Vatican gardens
• Italian Renaissance Gardens
• Introduction to Dutch gardens and garden architecture

French landscapes and gardens

• The Hambury Botanic Gardens were created in 1867 by Sir Thomas Hambury, holidaying on the Costa Azzurra, Riveria
• Ch液eau de Saint-Loup
• Garden writing: Rabelais, Boyceau, Mollet
• Gardens of the south of France
• Monet's garden
• Claude Monet's garden in Giverny
• Tuileries Gardens, Paris
• Monetﾕs gardens, Giverny and Vernon
• Desert de Retz, near Paris, created by Francois Racine de Monville
• The Tuileries Gardens - A Short Dark History, Jacqueline Donnelly
• French Anglo-Chinese gardens

English gardens and landscapes

• Biddulph Grange Gardens
• Tapeley Park Gardens, North Devon
• Museum of Garden History at the restored church of St Mary-at-Lambeth, London
• Garden design in the British Isles and styles since 1650
• The Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal estate, Yorkshire, England
• Chatsworth Estate in Derbyshire historic landscape survey
• The Royal Gardens in Windsor Great Park - Charles Lyte
• Gardens in and around London, England, including Chelsea Physic Garden, Kenwood, Sissinghurst, etc.
• Database of British landscapes, University of York
• Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew -- history
• Upton Grey, Hants, England
• Garden Design in the British Isles History and styles since 1650, Tom Turner
• The Lost Gardens of Heligan, UK
• Munstead Wood, Gertrude Jekyll
• Arts and Crafts Gardening
• Exbury Gardens, England
• Gertrude Jekyll, The Manor House, Upton Grey, UK

Welsh gardens and landscapes

• National Botanic Garden of Wales

Irish gardens and landscapes

• Malahide Castle Gardens
• Emo Court
• Johnstown Castle, County Wexford
• National Botanic Gardens at Glasnevin

Scottish gardens and landscapes

• Ascog Fernery, restored Victorian fernery On The Isle Of Bute, Scotland
• Brodick Castle, Isle of Arran, Scotland
• Cawdor Castle, Scotland
• Torosay Castle, Isle of Mull, Scotland

Middle East

• Hanging Gardens of Babylon, 1, 2
• The Search for the Garden of Eden

South Asian gardens and landscapes

• The Sigiri Gardens, Sri Lanka, history; Plan (jpeg) of Sigiri Gardens
• Taj Mahal gardens, India
• The Mughal Gardens at Rashtrapati Bhavan, Delhi, India

Chinese and Japanese gardens and landscapes

• Imperial Gardens of China
• The Iconography of Gardens [Chinese]: Stories and Symbols
• Environmental Aesthetics and Chinese Gardens
• Margaret Grigg Nanjing Friendship Chinese Garden
• Translating the Japanese Garden
• Ritsurin Koen, Takamatsu City, Japan
• Symbolism and Meaning in the Japanese Garden
• About Classical Chinese Gardens
• Katsura Rikyu, Japan
• Japanese Garden Database
• Historical gardens in Japan
• Japanese gardens

Australian gardens and landscapes

• Australian landscape ecology and biogeography
• Expressions of the Landscape: Art of the Australian Aborigines
• Gardens in South Australia, bibliography
• Garden Restoration of a Country Garden in Tasmania
• Belair National Park, Australia
• National Library of Australia, some historic garden images from its pictorial collection

Resources and publications

• WWW Virtual Library -- Landscape Architecture-- maintained by University of Toronto, which contains some historical material
• Centre for Landscape Research: Virtual Libraries and Atlases
• Centre for Canadian Landscape Architecture Archives, University of Guelph. In its infancy.
• Landscape and Urban Planning Journal
• The Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) is a computer-based network that serves museums, libraries and other heritage institutions.
• The Special Collections Department of Wageningen Agricultural University Library houses TUIN, the Garden and Landscape Architecture Documentation Centre for the Netherlands (Documentatiecentrum Tuinen Landschapsarchitectuur In Nederland).
• Historic Garden Ornaments, English lead
• British Natural History Museum's online catalogue
• WAU Library -- Special Collections of rare and old books
• Various historic garden photographs from the UC Santa Cruz--University Library, Regional History Project
• Internet Directory for Botany
• The Garden Library of the New Orleans Town Gardeners
• URBANE: Urban Resource Base for Analysis and Networked Education. URBANE provides a database of over 100 projects related to urban spaces around the world.
• Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920 [USA], Library of Congress
• Landscape History (journal)
• Horizon Books - Rare, antiquarian, used & out-of-print books on horticulture, gardening, garden history
• Wave Hill, New York - Landscape History Research
• Evaluating a Designed Historic Landscape for the National Register of Historic Places, USA National Park Service bulletin
• Reference Sources for the History of Gardening Timeline: A Research Bibliography - this list is in its infancy
• Biographical Information on Landscape Architects, Environmental Design Library, Univ. of Berkeley
• Index to historic preservation periodicals, National Trust for Historic Preservation Library, USA
• Looking for plans and pictorial sources, Environmental Design Library, Univ. of California, Berkeley -- views, plans, sections, elevations or details of important buildings and sites.
• American landscape and architectural design, 1850-1920, Harvard. Slide collection of American buildings and landscapes.
• S.P.I.R.O., Architecture Slide Library, Univ. of California, Berkeley
• American Association for State and Local History
• History of Landscape Architecture, Environmental Design Library, Univ. of California, Berkeley
• Conserving Historic Gardens, John Sales
• International Council on Monuments and Sites
• Upon the Gardens of Epicurus; or, of Gardening, in the Year 1685, Sir William Temple
• Recognizing our heritage - Applying federal guidelines to historic landscapes in Maine, by Theresa Mattor
• Naomi F. Millerﾕs archeobotany pages - with pictures of landscape restoration in the Middle East
• Archaeobotany web resources
• Archaeobotany
• The Urban Past: An International Urban History Bibliography; The Modern City: Canada

Cultural landscapes

• Council of Europe - cultural routes
• Background Paper for Meeting on World Heritage and Cultural Landscapes, January 2001, by Susan Buggey for Parks Canada
• Southern Landscape and Cultural Influences - A summary by Tamara Hughes
• The Benjamin Franklin Parkway: Rehabilitating an Historic Urban Designed Landscape (cultural landscape)
• The Historic Columbia River Gorge: Rehabilitating a Rural Designed Landscape (cultural landscape)
• The Center for Landscape Interpretation, Lousiana
• Canyon De Chelly, Arizona
• The lower Mississippi Valley landscape
• Historical and Cultural Landscape in Turkey
• Changing Neolithic Landscapes at Brzesc Kujawski, Poland -- Studying Neolithic Landscapes
• The Neolithic Mosaic on the North European Plain
• Wicken Fen -- cultural landscape
• The Cultural Landscape Foundation
• UC Santa Cruz University Library, Regional History Project -- agricultural history, cultural landscapes
• Rome Reborn /Vatican Exhibit
• Anasazi Site Planning: Historic Precedents, Modern Constructs, and Multi-cultural Dynamics (American southwest)
• Cultural landscapes - regional identities and sustainable husbandry in highland ecosystems, Austria
• Cultural landscapes at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Park, Michigan, USA
• Slovenia - cultural landscapes
• World Heritage Sites -- UNESCO
• Cultural Landscape Bibliography, An Annotated Bibliography on Resources in the National Park System [USA]
• Cultural Landscape Research Unit, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
• Settlement and Cultural Landscape, Danish State Research Council for the Humanities, Aarhus University, Department of Prehistoric Archaelogy
• Cultural Landscape Bibliography, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland
• Analyzing the Cultural Landscape of Beidha with the Assistance of Remote Sensing Data: Some Findings of Relevance to the Chronology of Natufian and Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Occupations, by Douglas C. Comer, Ph.D.
• Institute for Cultural Landscape Studies, Harvard University
• Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape, Czech Republic
• Digitising the Aboriginal Cultural Landscape
• Cultural Landscape Inventory of Oregon Caves National Monument
• Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site Cultural Landscape Inventory and Analysis, Montana, USA
• Cultural Landscape Recommendations, Munson Valley, Crater Lake National Park, Pacific Northwest, USA
• The Maritime Cultural Landscape: On the concept of the traditional zones of transport geography
• The Analysis of the Kossuth House as a Cultural Landscape, Washington D.C.
• Perceptual values in the cultural landscape: a spatial model for assessing and mapping perceived mystery in rural environments
• Memento Mori, The Cemetery
• The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
• On the history of gardens and landscapes in the Indian subcontinent
• Aboriginal Cultural Landscapes, by Susan Buggey

Botanic gardens -- history

• W.J. Beal Botanical Garden, Michigan
• Botanic garden of the University of Padova
• Botanical garden of Padua, Italy
• The Bergius Botanical Garden Stockholm, Sweden
• Australian National Botanic Gardens
• Christchurch Botanic Gardens, New Zealand
• Botanical Garden of Gottingen, Germany
• Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden - history
• Boerner Botanical Garden, Wisconsin - history
• Bartlett Arboretum at the University of Connecticut, Stamford
• Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
• Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain, Sydney, Australia
• National Botanic Garden of Wales
• Godollo Arboretum, Hungary
• Copenhagen University's botanical garden, Denmark
• Botanical Garden of Tartu University, Estonia
• Bermuda Botanical Gardens
• Tyler Arboretum, Media, Pennsylvania
• University Botanical Garden in Vilnius, Lithuania
• Botanical Garden of the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Secwepemc Ethnobotanical Gardens, British Columbia, Canada
• Botanic Garden of Smith College, USA

Personalities

• Austrailan National University archival sources, short descriptions of famous horticulturalists and foresters
• Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site
• Frederick Law Olmsted Homepage
• A substantial site devoted to Frederick Law Olmsted
• Charles van Ravenswaay (1911-1990), Papers, University of Missouri-Columbia, Missouri
• William Paxton's work in Wales
• Gertrude Jekyll, famous English gardener
• Directory of botanists, plantsmen, landscapers, gardeners and writers of note, British
• Frank Kingdon-Ward, plant hunter
• Charles Adams Platt, American landscape gardener 1861-1933
• Ellen Biddle Shipman, American landscape architect
• George Washington Carver - links
• Luther Burbank Home and Gardens
• Luther Burbank
• Frank Kingdon-Ward
  

Urban park history

• Introduction to Ontario Parks
• Frederick Law Olmsted and the Buffalo Park and Parkway Systems: A Study of the Planning and Design Responses...
• Olmsted in Buffalo
• National Association for Olmsted parks
• Louisville's 8,600-acre park system designed by Frederick Law Olmsted.
• Historic Druid Hills laid out in 1893 by Frederick Law Olmsted
• Canadian Parks Movement: the Hamilton, Ontario experience
• History of Washington State [USA] parks
• Barron Park history, USA
• Balboa Park history, San Diego, California
• Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California
• Idlewild Park. Pennsylvania
• Fort Toulouse - Jackson Park, Alabama, USA
• Central Park, New York, history
• Brief history of amusement parks

Rural Cemetery style landscapes

• Seeing Through the Stones: Culture and Context in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, by Lindsay Cook
• Memento Mori: The Cemetery
• Burial Customs and Cemeteries in American History
• J. Robert Orr: "Tomb with a View: Mount Auburn, Oak Hill and the Rise of Rural Landscape Cemeteries in America."
• Historic Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• History and Development of Greenwood Cemetery by Grant Peckenschneider
• History of Greenwood Cemetery, Philadelphia
• The Development of Rural, Park-like Cemeteries, Missouri
• Early Cemeteries of Wichita, Kansas
• Walnut Grove Cemetery, Boonville, Missouri
• "Momento Mori," Michael C. Hrendon
• Southern Graveshelters and English Lych-gates: The Search for Culture Trait Origins

Horticultural history

• The Pajaro Valley, California, Apple Industry, 1890-1930
• History of agriculture in Alberta
• A Cent a Pound or on the Ground: Okanagan Fruit Growers and Marketing, 1920-1935
• Nova Scotia Fruit Growersﾕ Association ﾐ history
• Historical Series ﾐ Agricultural Canada list of publications
• History of hydroponics
• Strawberry Growing in the Pajaro Valley, California
• U.S. Horticultural Research Laboratory history
• History of the University of Georgia Horticulture Department, 1921-1993
• British Food Journal: East of Eden: a brief history of fruit and vegetable consumption
• Community Gardens: A Tool for Community Building
• Appleseed Alley (Johnny Appleseed)
• Apple history
• Oregon Early Horticultural History and Lore and another site
• History of ginseng
• Where Food Crops Originated
• History of Horticulture
• Community Gardens: A Tool for Community Building, contains a short history of community gardening
• Vegetables and Fruits: A Guide to Heirloom Varieties and Community-Based Stewardship. Volume 3. Historical Supplement. National Agricultural Library, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
  

Flower lore

• Old rose history
• Old Rose History and Synopisis, by Brent C. Dickerson
• Viola and pansy -- short history
• Mary's Gardens are dedicated to researching the hundreds of flowers named in medieval times as symbols of the Virgin Mary.
• Australian Aboriginals' use of plants, two sites: 1, 2
• Old Rose Garden History
• Heirloom plant organizations and commercial sources
• Old roses
• Rosebank Letter -- list of articles -- Harry McGee, well-known Canadian rose expert
• History, Myths, and Romance - Bulb History, Tulipomania

Organizations

• New England Garden History Society
• Garden History Society
• The California Garden and Landscape History Society
• Launceston Horticultural Society History, Australia
• Seeds of Diversity: Canadaﾕs Heritage Seed-Saving Network
• Canadian Society of Landscape Architects
• Australian Garden History Society

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