About the Author

Sam Watters is a writer and artist living in California. He was educated in art history and landscape design at Yale, the University of Marseilles, and the Royal Herbarium at Kew and teaches architectural drawing at the University of Southern California. He is the editor of American Gardens, 1890-1930, Northeast, Mid-West and Midwest Regions (Acanthus Press, 2006) and is preparing the next volume in the Acanthus landscape series, California Gardens, 1885-1935.