Gardens old to New World - and back again. (restoration of England's Stowe gardens involves searching its archives in Huntington Library in California)

From: History Today | Date: April 1, 1993 | Copyright information

* Seeking out clues to the eighteenth-century layout of one of England's most famous landscape gardens, 6,000 miles away at what was once a ranch in Southern California, is the intriguing project currently being undertaken in Britain by the National Trust. A team from the Trust has just returned from working on archives held at the Huntington Library at San Marino - just outside Los Angeles. They relate to the Stowe gardens in Buckinghamshire - acquired by the

Trust in 198...

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