The lawn : a history of an American obsession /

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 t...

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Main Author: Jenkins, Virginia Scott
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1994.
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