Editing Beatrix Farrand (section)

==Early years==
Beatrix Cadwalader Jones was born in New York City on June 19, 1872, into a family among whom she liked to claim were "five generations of gardeners."<ref name=Parke/>{{rp|10}} Her mother was [[Mary Cadwalader Rawle Jones|Mary Cadwalader Rawle]] (1850–1923), whose father was lawyer William Henry Rawle (1823–1889).<ref name=Keith>{{cite book|first=Charles Penrose|last=Keith|title=The provincial councillors of Pennsylvania, who held office between 1733–1776: and those earlier councillors who were some time chief magistrates of the province, and their descendants|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OEAVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA260|year=1883|publisher=W.S. Sharp Printing Company|page=260|isbn=9780788417658}}</ref> Her father was Frederic Rhinelander Jones (1846–1918), brother of novelist [[Edith Wharton]].<ref name=Stevens>{{cite book|title=Erasmus Stevens and his descendants|year=1914|first=Eugene R.|last=Stevens|others=revised by Colonel William Plumb Bacon|publisher=Tobias A. Wright|page=45|url=https://archive.org/details/erasmusstevenshi00ste}}</ref>

She enjoyed long seasons at the family's summer home [[Reef Point Estate]] in [[Bar Harbor, Maine|Mount Desert Island, Maine]].<ref name=Dumbarton/> She was the niece of Edith Wharton<ref>Edith Wharton was the author among other books, of ''Italian Villas and Their Gardens''.</ref> and lifelong friend of [[Henry James]], who called her 'Trix'.<ref name=Raver2003>{{cite news|last1=Raver|first1=Anne|title=Nature: Beatrix Farrand's Secret Garden|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/27/garden/nature-beatrix-farrand-s-secret-garden.html?pagewanted=all|access-date=September 27, 2015|work=The New York Times|date=November 27, 2003}}</ref> At age twenty, she was introduced to one of her primary mentors, the botanist [[Charles Sprague Sargent]], who at [[Harvard University]] was both a professor of horticulture at the Bussey Institute and the founding director of the [[Arnold Arboretum]] in Boston, [[Massachusetts]].<ref name=BFSBio>{{cite web|title=Beatrix Farrand|url=http://www.beatrixfarrandsociety.org/beatrix-farrand/|website=Beatrix Farrand Society|access-date=September 27, 2015}}</ref><ref name=Harvard>{{cite web|title=Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University|url=http://www.asla.org/uploadedFiles/Guide/Boston/Neighborhoods/Emerald_Necklace/Arnold_Arboretum.pdf|website=The Landscape Architect's Guide to Boston|access-date=September 27, 2015}}</ref> Sargent named a species, ''[[Crataegus jonesae]]'', in her honor, as it was she who first noticed it and brought it to his attention.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.beatrixfarrandsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/herbarium-exhibitio-brochure-2015.pdf |title=The Beatrix Farrand Society's 2015 Herbarium Exhibition |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=June 2015 |website=beatrixfarrandsociety.org |publisher=Beatrix Farrand Society |access-date=11 August 2020 }}</ref>

Farrand lived at Sargent's home, Holm Lea in [[Brookline, Massachusetts]], in 1893 and studied [[landscape gardening]], for which there was no specialized school at the time, [[botany]], and [[land planning]].<ref name=Zaitzevsky>{{cite book|last1=Zaitzevsky|first1=Cynthia|title=Long Island landscapes and the women who designed them|date=2009|publisher=Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities|location=New York|isbn=9780393731248|page=34|edition=1st|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pe7upwZyvSsC&pg=PA34}}</ref><ref name=Ceiling>{{cite web|title=Flashback Photos: Beatrix Farrand Breaks the (Green) Glass Ceiling|url=http://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/flashback-photos-beatrix-farrand-breaks-green-glass-ceiling/|website=New England Historical Society|date=28 February 2015 |access-date=27 September 2015}}</ref> She wanted to learn drafting to scale, elevation rendering, surveying, and engineering, and so studied at the [[Columbia School of Mines]] under the direction of Prof. [[William Robert Ware|William Ware]].<ref name=Karson>{{cite book|last1=Karson|first1=Robin|title=A genius for place : American landscapes of the country place era|date=2007|publisher=University of Massachusetts Press|location=Amherst|isbn=978-1-62534-048-1|page=137|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cH4-IPio2poC&pg=PA137|access-date=27 September 2015}}</ref> She was influenced in using [[native plant]] species from: her many successful Reef Point experiences; studying the contemporary books from the U.S. and abroad advocating the advantages of native palettes; and from visiting the influential British garden authors [[William Robinson (gardener)|William Robinson]] at [[Gravetye Manor]] in [[Sussex]], and [[Gertrude Jekyll]] at [[Munstead Wood]] in [[Surrey]].<ref name=Dumbarton/> Jekyll's series of thematic gardening books emphasized the importance and value of natural plantings and were influential in the U.S.<ref name=Southern>{{cite web|last1=Tankard |first1=Judith B. |title=Gertrude Jekyll and the Country House Garden, From the Archives of Country Life |url=http://www.southerngardenhistory.org/bookreviews/Gertrude_Jekyll.html |website=Southern Garden History Society |access-date=27 September 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130707140240/http://www.southerngardenhistory.org/bookreviews/Gertrude_Jekyll.html |archive-date=7 July 2013 }}</ref>

On December 17, 1913, Beatrix married [[Max Farrand]],<ref name=Zaitzevsky/>{{rp|35}} the accomplished historian at [[Stanford University|Stanford]] and [[Yale University|Yale]] universities, and the first director of the [[Huntington Library]].<ref name=Max>{{cite web|title=Max Farrand|url=http://www.doaks.org/library-archives/garden-archives/biographies/max-farrand|website=Dumbarton Oaks|access-date=27 September 2015}}</ref>