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For Fletcher Steele Garden Lovers

For many lovers of American gardens, the landscape architect Fletcher Steele is their Gershwin and the famous Blue Steps at Naumkeag are his rhapsody. Happily, the landscape historian Robin Karson’s 1989 fascinating and out-of-print book, Fletcher Steele, Landscape Architect: An Account of the Gardenmaker’s Life, 1885-1971, is available in a revised and handsome paperbound edition [...]

The Bible of American Landscape Design

Pioneers of American Landscape Design Charles Birnbaum and Robin Karson, editors McGraw-Hill, 2000 486 pages, well illustrated $59.95 In Camden, Maine in years past, I often sat in an amphitheater behind the Camden Public Library. I would watch my child play there, or we would watch a theater performance for children together all the while [...]