The Garden Diary of Martha Turnbull, Mistress of Rosedown PlantationRecovered in the mid 1990s from the attic of a Turnbull family descendant, Martha Turnbull's garden diary offers the most extensive surviving first hand account of nineteenth century plantation life and gardening in the Deep South. Landscape architecture professor and preservationist Suzanne Turner spent fifteen years transcribing and annotating the original manuscript, making it accessible to twenty first century gardening enthusiasts. The resulting