Beauties of Nature: Flower and Landscape Gardening in Europe, 1700-1850

"Beauties of Nature" traces changes in taste from valuing grandiose formality to emulating nature, and changes in the study of botany from simple observation to a modern science. But it also traces changes in who the people were who practiced flower gardening and landscaping, from soley upper class men to a much wider array of both men and women.