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    Garden and forest "A journal of horticulture, landscape art, and forestry."
    • Contributor: Sargent, Charles Sprague
    • Date: 1888
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    Garden and Forest Garden and Forest: A Journal of Horticulture, Landscape Art, and Forestry (1888-1897) was the first American journal devoted to horticulture, botany, landscape design and preservation, national and urban park development, scientific forestry, and the conservation of forest resources. The journal was established by Charles Sprague Sargent (1841-1927), the founding director of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. Though the journal was published independently, Sargent…
    • Contributor: Sargent, Charles Sprague
    • Date: 1888

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    Rights and Access The original Garden and Forest scans in this collection are in the public domain. The Library has obtained permission for the use of the essays in the collection, which may be subject to copyright.
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    Digitizing and Delivery – The History of the Resource at the Library of Congress and the University of Michigan Garden and Forest: A Journal of Horticulture, Landscape Art, and Forestry was the first digital reformatting project done by the Library of Congress's Preservation Reformatting Division. It was also the first serial digitized in its entirety by LC. This digital-reformatting project represented the addition of digital technology to the list of options available for crafting preservation strategies for Library collections.
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    Garden and Forest and "Landscape Art" Laura Wood Roper notes in her 1973 biography of Frederick Law Olmsted that the 1890s were years of "staggering reverses" for the profession of landscape architecture. But it was also during this period that a body of theory and technical expertise was developed and became the basis for training landscape architects.
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    Garden and Forest: The Botanical Basis of It All On February 29, 1888, the weekly periodical, Garden and Forest, A Journal of Horticulture, Landscape Art and Forestry, was inaugurated. Rather oddly, the statement outlining the purpose of the new publication, along with an extensive list of future contributors, was relegated to a page in the advertising section that preceded the main text.
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    A High-grade Paper: Garden & Forest and Nineteenth-Century American Forestry While acknowledging that it was a "first-rate publication," deftly edited by the talented journalist William A. Stiles, and conceding that it was "an immediate success," Stephanne B. Sutton also contrasted the effusive praise it received with its lack of "popularity"; the plaudits may have been "gratifying," but a larger circulation would have eased the journal's incessant "financial crisis."
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    Historical Background of Garden and Forest Garden and Forest: A Journal of Horticulture, Landscape Art, and Forestry made its debut on February 29, 1888, and ceased publication on December 29, 1897. Although financially strapped from the beginning, Garden and Forest's influence spread far beyond its small circulation and brief ten-year run.
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    The Influence of Garden and Forest on the Development of Horticulture Garden and Forest: A Journal of Horticulture, Landscape Art, and Forestry, the brainchild of the Arnold Arboretum's first director, Charles Sprague Sargent, was published during a period (1888–1897) when the science of everything that grows—wild or cultivated—was still (barely) considered a single discipline.
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    "Master of a Felicitous English Style": William Augustus Stiles, Editor of Garden and Forest Credit for the graceful prose and for the eloquent advocacy for public parks should go not to Charles Sprague Sargent, but to Garden and Forest's editor William Stiles.