Grace Tabor
Ina Grace Tabor (24 Maris 1874, Cuba, New York - 15 Oktoba 1971) ta kasance ƴaran ƙasar Amurka landscape architect, mai zane, Marubuciya, kuma edita. Ta zamo ɗaya daga cikin mata na farko da suka bayyana kanta a matsayin mai zanen landscape architect. An fi saninta da mawallafiya a kan batutuwan zanen landscape design, da aikin gona-(horticulture). Ita ce marubucin littattafan lambu guda goma, yawancinsu an buga su tsakanin 1910 zuwa 1921.

Tarihin rayuwa da ilimi
An haifi Grace Tabor a ranar 24 ga Maris 1874 a Cuba, New York. Ta yi karatu a Arts Students League da kuma New York School of Applied Design for Women duka a birnin New York. Tabor ta sami horon aikin lambu a Arnold Arboretum na Jami'ar Harvard University. A cikin 1905, Tabor, ta fara tsara rubutu da zane don wallafe-wallafen kamar a Mujallar The Garden Magazine da Country Life. Ta zama editan Mujallar The Garden Magazine (daga baya The American Home); Mataimakin Daraktan, Makarantar Aikin Noma ta Jihar New York akan Long Island.

Tabor, ta shafe yawancin rayuwarta (ta balaga) a yankin birnin New York. Bayan ta yi ritaya, ta koma kudu, tana zama a jihohi daban-daban.

Aiki
A cikin 1914-1915 Tabor, ta fara aikin (landscape architecture) a asirce, musamman a kusa da birnin New York. Ta gwammace ta tsara lambuna don masu matsakaicin kuɗin shiga maimakon masu arziki. Sakamakon haka, ba a rubuta gonakinta a cikin wallafe-wallafe ba. Hukumar Lambun Yaƙi ta Ƙasa-(The National War Garden Commission) ta aika da ita yawon shakatawa na talla a lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na ɗaya (WW1), don sha'awar samar da abinci a cikin Lambunan Yaƙi. Bayan yakin duniya na ɗaya, an naɗa ta shugabar sashin aikin gona na kwamitin Miss Anne Morgan na Faransa, kuma ta yi aiki a wannan matsayi a lokacin kasancewar kwamitin.

A cikin 1920 Tabor ta rubuta wani littafi Come into the Garden inda ta yi magana game da yawan amfani da tsirai, tana ƙarfafa gwaiwar masu lambu.

A cikin 1923 a matsayin ta na mai zane, mujallar Woman’s Home Companion ta nemi ta kafa Sashen Lambun a cikin wannan mujallar kuma ta yi aiki na ɗan lokaci a matsayin editanta. Ta fara aiki a mujallar har zuwa 1941. Ta hanyar Woman's Home Companion, wanda a lokacin tana cikin manyan mujallun mata a ƙasar. Ta bambanta tsohon da sabon salon aikin lambu tare da zane mai hoto na shimfidar wuri kafin da bayan gyare-gyare, ta sanya alamar "kafin" a matsayin "kuskure a cikin shimfidar wuri". Rubutu da take ma Woman's Home Companion an ɗauke shi a matsayin gungun masu ba da shawara mata game da batun.

Tabor ta rubuta littattafan lambu guda goma, yawancinsu an buga su tsakanin 1910 zuwa 1921. Daga cikin muhimman littattafan akwai The Landscape Gardening Book (1911) da Come into the Garden (1921). A cikin littafinta Old-Fashioned Gardening (1913) Tabor ta gabatar wa da masu karatu, lambuna na Amurka, Mulkin Mallaka. A cikin 1951 Tabor ta buga littafinta na ƙarshe Making a Garden of Perennials.

A cikin 1932 ta ba da shawarar dasa sabbin bishiyoyi miliyan 10 a Amurka don bikin cika shekaru biyu na haihuwar George Washington.

Ta kasance edita na Mujallar Tsirrai, Fure da 'Ya'yan itace ta ƙasa. Ta kuma ba da gudummawa sosai ga mujallar House and Garden, tana rubuta akan lambu a kowane wata da labarai masu zurfi game da aikin lambu.

Wallafe-wallafen

 1911 – The landscape gardening book, wherein are set down the simple laws of beauty and utility which should guide the development of all grounds
 1911 – The garden primer; a practical handbook on the elements of gardening for beginners
 1912 – Making a garden to bloom this year
 1912 – Making the grounds attractive with shrubs
1912 – Making the grounds attractive with shrubbery
1912 – Making a bulb garden
1913 – Old-Fashioned gardening; a history and a reconstruction
1913 – Suburban gardens
1916 – Wonderdays and wonderways through flowerland; a summer adventure of once upon a time
1921 – Come into the garden
1934 – Herbs in cooking
1951 – Making a garden of perennials

Mutuwa
Ta mutu a shekarar 1973.

Manazarta

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