La Foce: A Garden and Landscape in Tuscany offers a rare look at the majestic, romantic, and personal aspects of one of the loveliest and most bewitching places on earth.
Provides an assemblage of the horticultural knowledge and wisdom of the seventeenth century. This book includes drawings of garden layouts, diagrams of inventions for plant and tree cultivation, and plans for the artificial and natural embellishment of the land, all of which were to contribute to the beauty and utility of the gardens.
"The body of French garden literature ... is here carried to a new height and breadth in one seminal volume."-Choice
Cultivated Power explores the collection, cultivation, and display of flowers in early modern France at the historical moment when flowering plants piqued the curiosity of European gardeners and botanists, merchants and ministers, and dukes and kings alike.
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