The Garden Diary of Martha Turnbull, Mistress of Rosedown Plantation

by William Seale and Martha Barrow Turnbull

Recovered in the mid-1990s from the attic of a Turnbull family descendant, Martha Turnbull's garden diary offers the most extensive surviving first-hand account of nineteenth-century plantation life and gardening in the Deep South. Landscape architecture professor and preservationist Suzanne Turner spent fifteen years transcribing and annotating the original manuscript, making it accessible to twenty-first-century gardening enthusiasts. The resulting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807144118
• ISBN13: 9780807144114
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.3" x 10.2"