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The City Natural: Garden and Forest Magazine and the Rise of American Environmentalism by Shen Hou (review)

The City Natural: Garden and Forest Magazine and the Rise of American Environmentalism by Shen... Book Reviews THE CITY NATURAL: GARDEN AND FOREST MAGAZINE AND THE RISE OF AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTALISM. By Shen Hou. 2013. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 256 pages. $35 hardcover, ISBN: 978-08229-4423-2 soul, mind, belief and impact" (p.6). Her approach to the book's narrative is strongly biographical, focusing on a number of key individuals who shaped the magazine's mind and soul, including its editors, Charles S. Sargent and William A. Stiles, and prominent contributors such as Frederick Law Olmsted, Gifford Pinchot, Liberty Hyde Bailey, and Marianna Van Rensselaer. Other important contributors included botanists Reviewed by Eric MacDonald Charles E. Bessey and Sereno Watson, nurserymen In The City Natural, historian Shen Hou traces the Thomas Mehan and Edward Orpet, foresters Bernhard development of Garden and Forest, a weekly magaE. Fernow and Carl A. Schenck, and writers Jonathan zine published in the United States from 1888 to 1897. Harrison and Sylvester Baxter. Although scholars have long regarded Garden and Hou places Garden and Forest and its contribuForest as a valuable primary source in the field of tors within the larger context of contemporary lateAmerican environmental history, the publication itself has received little focused attention. She addresses this nineteenth-century American environmentalism, positioning it http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Landscape Journal: design, planning, and management of the land University of Wisconsin Press

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Book Reviews THE CITY NATURAL: GARDEN AND FOREST MAGAZINE AND THE RISE OF AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTALISM. By Shen Hou. 2013. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 256 pages. $35 hardcover, ISBN: 978-08229-4423-2 soul, mind, belief and impact" (p.6). Her approach to the book's narrative is strongly biographical, focusing on a number of key individuals who shaped the magazine's mind and soul, including its editors, Charles S. Sargent and William A. Stiles, and prominent contributors such as Frederick Law Olmsted, Gifford Pinchot, Liberty Hyde Bailey, and Marianna Van Rensselaer. Other important contributors included botanists Reviewed by Eric MacDonald Charles E. Bessey and Sereno Watson, nurserymen In The City Natural, historian Shen Hou traces the Thomas Mehan and Edward Orpet, foresters Bernhard development of Garden and Forest, a weekly magaE. Fernow and Carl A. Schenck, and writers Jonathan zine published in the United States from 1888 to 1897. Harrison and Sylvester Baxter. Although scholars have long regarded Garden and Hou places Garden and Forest and its contribuForest as a valuable primary source in the field of tors within the larger context of contemporary lateAmerican environmental history, the publication itself has received little focused attention. She addresses this nineteenth-century American environmentalism, positioning it

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