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Book Review
| From Yard to Garden: The Domestication of America's Home Grounds. By Christopher Grampp. (Chicago: Center for American Places, 2008. xxiv, 278 pp. $32.50, ISBN 978-1-930066-74-8.)
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| This delightful book traces the evolution of the home garden in the United States since the mid-nineteenth century. It is not about the "ideal garden" or gardens of the elite, but the front and backyards that most middle-class Americans have experienced. |
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