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The Library is a rich resource for information on gardens in America from 1890 to 1940, a period that authors Mac Griswold and Eleanor Weller call 'The Golden Age of American Gardens' in their book by that title. Besides many books on the history of garden design, the Library’s bound periodicals are treasure chests filled with images and text that beautifully chronicle the era. For more recent articles, the Library provides access to Garden, Landscape and Horticulture Index, an online product that covers more than 300 general and garden periodicals.
On the left is a page from the July 1923 issue of House and Garden magazine; the caption reads "Seven of the country’s most noted landscape architects--they merely happen to be women--grace the Calendar page this month."
Five of these landscape architects were members of The Horticultural Society of New York: Marion C. Coffin, Beatrix Farrand, Annette Hoyt Flanders, Ellen Shipman, and Grace Tabor.
Below are portraits and some of the books by or about the ‘noted landscape architects’ available in the Library.
