Bøker av Porter Garnett

A fascinating insight into the history of the city of San Francisco, Porter Garnett's book offers readers a glimpse into what life was like in the city in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. With insightful commentary and engaging prose, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in the history and culture of this iconic city.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

These chapters upon certain important houses and gardens in California have, with there own particular value of consideration and criticism, the value of the record. The book makes another milestone on the long road we have travelled so rapidly (socially, agriculturally and horticulturally) since the Padres came bringing with them the olive and vine. Something remains the Mission garden -hints of the plan of the quadrangle of flower and shrubs in or beyond the cloisters, and yielding in turn to the no less formal alleys of the orchard; and this rightness of design is perceptible still about the old Spanish residences that, here and there dot the valleys of California. One wonders what seed of purely ornamental trees and flowers these Spanish priests brought in their pockets for their own spiritual delight and to assuage their nostalgia? The Italian cypress seems to have been widely planted from the first, and the oleander, and the rough Castilian rose, and our common horehound, covering all our foothills, is said to be an estray from the priest's old "garden of simples." Originally published in 1915. Contents: Introduction 1. New Place, Residence of Mr. W. H. Crocker 2. Villa Rose, Residence of Mr. J. D. Grant 3. Hacienda del Pozo de Verona, Residence of Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst 4. The Oaks, Residence of Mr. C. Frederick Kohl 5. Residence of Mr. H.E. Huntington 6. Villa Montalvo, Residence of the Honorable James D. Phelan 7. El Fureides, Residence of Mr. J.M. Gillespie 8. Uplands, Residence of Mr. C. Templeton Crocker 9. Arcady, Residence of Mr. George O. Knapp 10. Residence of Mr. James L. Flood 11. Residence of Mr. Hulett C. Merritt 12. Residence of Mr. George A. Newhall