Over the past year, the United States was fortunate to host two traveling exhibitions of the Arts and Crafts movement: International Arts and Crafts, organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, showed at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (September 25, 2005–January 22, 2006), and The Arts & Crafts Movement in Europe and America, 1880–1920: Design for the Modern World, organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, closed its national tour at the Cleveland Museum of Art (October 16, 2005–January 8, 2006). Given the interest in the Arts and Crafts movement generated by these exhibitions, Judith Tankard’s new book is well timed. Tankard, who teaches at the Landscape Institute, Harvard, and was a founding editor of the Journal of New England Garden History Society, explains in her preface that her study developed from “a desire to present Arts and Crafts gardens in the broad context of art, architecture, interior design, and decorative arts in which they need to be appreciated,” and draws upon her own collection of turn-of-the-century books and journals as well as paintings and decorative objects (7). To this list can be added her own photographic archive, as the book is amply illustrated with many beautiful...