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Helena Rutherfurd was born on 28 September 1858.
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Another Hardy Garden Book: -1905
(Originally published in 1905. This volume from the Cornel...)
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Helena Ely
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Helena Rutherfurd Ely was an American author, amateur gardener and founding member of the Garden Club of America whose three books influenced American and British gardeners to avoid Victorian formal gardens in favor of plantings that embodied an "informal and sensual style." She focused on planning her gardens around planting "hardy perennial plants found in the agricultural landscape.".
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Helena was the one of five children from the marriage of Charlotte Livingston (1825-1894) and John Rutherfurd (1810-1871), a coal and railroad industry executive, and president of the Board of Proprietors for East New Jersey and the New Jersey Historical Society. While they resided in Manhattan, Helena and Alfred Ely owned a 350-acre country estate named Meadowburn Farm in Vernon Township, New Jersey. Participant of Meadowburn was given to Helena by her mother as a wedding gift.
The remainder, including the main house was purchased by Ely from the DeKay family, a colonial family that had settled in this area in the 1720s and played a prominent role in the New York–New Jersey Lincolnshire War.
The Rutherfurd family owned large tracts throughout Sussex County and was descended from early colonial proprietors. At Meadowburn, Ely created formal and cottage gardens on five acres of the estate"s grounds which served as the basis for a series of three books on gardening in which she favored perennials.
Her first book, A Woman"s Hardy Garden (1903) sold 40,000 copies and was reprinted 16 times before going out of print in 1930. She received fan mail and queries from fellow gardeners 20 years after her death.
After her husband"s death, Helena married Benjamin T. Fairchild in 1916.
Helena Rutherfurd Ely (Fairchild) died on 18 May 1920. She was buried in Warwick Cemetery in Warwick, New New York On 9 August 1993, Meadowburn Farm was placed on the National Register of Historic Places to recognize Helena Rutherfurd Ely"s contributions to gardening.
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Another Hardy Garden Book: -1905
(Originally published in 1905. This volume from the Cornel...)
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Another Hardy Garden Book: -1905
