The Spirit of the Garden

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Summary: How to grow your garden and like it too
Review: About the only way that we know about her nowadays is by visiting Maudslay State Park in Massachusetts. The drives and gardens there are what is left of what she did on the Maudesleigh estate in Newburyport for Frederick A Moseley. And yet Martha Brookes Hutcheson was among the first women students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and one of three women given fellowship early on in the picky American Society of Landscape Architects. Fortunately, her one, excellent, very readable book is still around also. Probably that is because of her beautiful notion that people feel connected to their buildings and land by way of THE SPIRIT OF THE GARDEN. That spirit basically meant seeing the garden, never a greenhouse, as an outdoor room of the house. It also meant being the first to call for growing local, native plants. In spelling this and more all out, she might also have been the first to use before and after pictures!