Archives Accession # 726

4.0.0.T45 People in Pacific Northwest horticulture: Dennis Thompson

Date statement: : 1980-1985
Summary:

 2 three-ring binders of course readings at Edmonds College

Description:

 Binder labelled "Japanese Garden Art" [attached note:"Readings for an Edmonds College class circa 1985-87.  Instructor Dennis Thompson"]:
"Theory of Japanese Flower Arrangements/Hort 223," typed page.
8/14/1985, copy fair use document.
3/1889, "Theory of Japanese Flower Arrangements," by J. Conder, 65 pp. (some omissions).
"Landscape Gardening in Japan," cover sheet.
1893, "Landscape Gardening in Japan," by Josiah Conder, 161 pp. plus 28 plates.
"Japanese Garden Arts, Hort 223," syllabus.
14 pages of design, art, and haiku.
8/1981, "Japanese Residential Landscaping," by Claire Sawyers, Horticulture magazine, 3 pp.
"Japanese Architecture," by William Alex, 11 pp.
3 pages on "oriental characters," untitled.
3 pages of poems by various authors or anonymous.
"Chinese Brush Strokes," film description, 2 pp.
"Place for Relaxation, Site of Eternal Beauty," by Janice Rabinowitlz, 5 pp.
William Alex article and "oriental characters" sheets, as above.
"from The Tea Ceremony," by Seno Tanaka, 4 pp.
"Bonsai," typed page.
"Synopsis: Japanese Gardens," typed page.
Janice Ramirez article, William Alex article, as above.
"Hort. 223/Japanese Garden Arts," divider sheet.
"China," 2 typed pp.
Heiki Monogatare, Translated by Hiroshi Kitagawa and Bruce T. Tsuchida, "Epilogue/The Cloistered Emperor Visits China," 4 pp,
"Container Gardening in China," by Richard A. Howard, 2 pp.
"The Tea Garden," typed page.
Seno Tanaka article, as above.
"From Japanese Floral Art," by Rachel Carr, 13 pp.
12/1984, "The Art of Ikebana," by Bruce Wright, 5 pp., plus "Ikebana Moods," designs, 8 pp.
9/1987, "Flower Arranging Schools Active in the Seattle Area," 2 typed pages.
"The Japanese Flower-Arrangement: Change of Its Form/A Short History of the Flower-Arrangement," by Seika Nishizaka, 15 pp.
2/1977,  "Masters' Profiles," 5 pp.
List of Latin flower names with Japanese equivalents, 1 typed page.
Flower arrangement descriptions by 6 artists, 6 pp.
2/1967, "Japanese Arrangements," from WSU Cooperative Extension Service, 2 pp.
"Glossary," 7 typed pages.
"Tea: Japan's Best Face Forward," by Hollister Ferris (?), 3 pp., in same printed source as "Sakura," by A. Marohn, 2 pp., and "The Art of Chabana," by Henry Mittwer, 3 pp.
"Synopsis," as above, stapled with 2 pages of designs.
List of flower names, as above, 
Heino Engel, "Measure and Construction of the Japanese House," pp. 58-60.
"Tea: Japan's Best Face Forward," et al., as above.
"The Growth of Gardens," by Richard Gorer, pp. 158-168.

Binder labelled "other Edmonds courses": [Attached note: "Readings for Dennis Thompson courses at Edmonds College circa 1980]
10/21/1984, "Green Peace - Horticultural Therapists Work to Put People in Touch with The Restorative Power of Plants," by Linda W.Y.Parrish, 3 pp.
"Groundcovers" syllabus.
"List of Plants for Special Conditions," 6 pp. typed.
7/1981, "Ground Covers," by Margaret Hensel, Horticulture magazine, pp. 37-43.
"Suggested Hedge Planting Spacing, " 3 pp., with ink note: "not reliable information."
"Sow a Meadow," by George Schenk, 5 pp.
"Aesthetic Uses of Plants," printed page of design uses.
"Operating Philosophy of Education," by Dennis Thompson, typed page.
after 1981, "Selected California Native Plants With Commercial Sources," 3rd edition, 67 pp.
6/15/1988, "Historical Atlas of Washington," by James W. Scott and Roland L. De Lorme, 9 pp.
1979, "Atlas of the Pacific Northwest," 15 pp.
"Native Plants and Natural Landscaping," 95 pp.

Accession date: 2024-03-26 Last updated: 2024-04-02 11:49:50
Subjects: Japanese gardens, Edmonds College

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