Chicago gardens, the early history

Once maligned as a swampy outpost, the fledgling city of Chicago brazenly adopted the motto Urbs in Horto or City in a Garden, in 1837. Chicago Gardens shows how this upstart town earned its sobriquet over the next century, from the first vegetable plots at Fort Dearborn to innovative garden designs at the 1933 World’s Fair.
Cathy Jean Maloney has spent decades researching the city’s horticultural heritage, and here she reveals the unusual history... >Voir plus