{"product_id":"jacques-felix-lelievres-new-louisiana-gardender-hardcover","title":"Jacques-Felix Lelievre's New Louisiana Gardender - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSally Kittredge Reeves\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1838, Nouveau Jardinier de la Louisiane, by Jacques-Felix Leli vre, was the first of only two books on Louisiana gardening to be written in the nineteenth century. The book drew upon the confident spirit of eighteenth-century Enlightenment France, forming a bridge from the writings of French horticulturalists to an American audience. Optimistic, ambitious, and progressive, the guide urged gardeners to manage nature by acclimating new species and constantly improving native ones through the application of innovative scientific techniques. Now available in English for the first time as New Louisiana Gardener, this charming period piece and path breaking work can be enjoyed once again by gardening enthusiasts and historians alike.\u003cbr\u003eAn introduction by Sally Kittredge Reeves gives historical context to the translation that follows, detailing the author's reasons for coming to America and his struggles to make a new life, his employment at and eventual ownership of a bookstore in New Orleans, and his reasons for compiling Nouveau Jardinier and publishing it in Francophile New Orleans.\u003cbr\u003eWritten over 150 years ago, New Louisiana Gardener offers today's gardener a refreshing connection with other gardening enthusiasts across time. Here, in this delightful historical gem, modern cultivators can escape their fertilizers and tillers and rediscover for a moment the joy of facing Mother Nature with little more than a well-educated pruning knife and a hoe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1838, Nouveau Jardinier de la Louisiane, by Jacques-Felix Lelievre, was the first of only two books on Louisiana gardening to be written in the nineteenth century. The book drew upon the confident spirit of eighteenth-century Enlightenment France, forming a bridge from the writings of French horticulturalists to an American audience. Optimistic, ambitious, and progressive, the guide urged gardeners to manage nature by acclimating new species and constantly improving native ones through the application of innovative scientific techniques. Now available in English for the first time as Jacques-Felix Lelievre's \"New Louisiana Gardener\", this charming period piece and pathbreaking work can be enjoyed once again by gardening enthusiasts and historians alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the heart of the book -- which closely mirrors the mind-set of nineteenth-century French horticultural science -- is a fundamental belief that the well-informed Louisiana gardener can overcome the problems of heat, humidity, weeds, insects, occasional cold, and primitive species by employing scientific methods of providing shade, water, and drainage; by technical pruning, manuring, and plowing; and through grafting, budding, and layering of better species onto native stock -- with the timing all regulated by the study of astronomy and an understanding of the movement of sap. More European than Old South, Lelievre's techniques were perhaps better suited to France than Louisiana, but modern horticulturalists can still learn from the upbeat spirit of overcoming obstacles that pervades Lelievre's guide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn introduction by Sally Kittredge Reeves gives historical context to the translation that follows, detailingthe author's reasons for coming to America and his struggles to make a new life, his employment at and eventual ownership of a bookstore in New Orleans, and his reasons for compiling the Nouveau Jardinier and publishing it in Francophile New Orleans. Reeves's discussion of the New Orleans publishing world offers telling details about book production and bookselling at the time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten over 150 years ago, Jacques-Felix Lelievre's \"New Louisiana Gardener\" offers today's gardener a refreshing connection with other gardening enthusiasts across time. Here, in this delightful historical gem, modern cultivators can escape their fertilizers and tillers and rediscover for a moment the joy of facing Mother Nature with little more than a well-educated pruning knife and a hoe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSally Kittredge Reeves, Archivist of the New Orleans Notarial Archives, is the author of Legacy of a Century: Academy of the Sacred Heart in New Orleans and coauthor of New Orleans Architecture, Volumes IV, V, and VII and Historic City Park, New Orleans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 186\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.87 x 7.86 x 5.81 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757675151648,"sku":"9780807124796","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/09f6f949cfcc5052e9c1b9a088aacc17.webp?v=1780108591","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/jacques-felix-lelievres-new-louisiana-gardender-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}