Fruits and plains : the horticultural transformation of America / Philip J. Pauly.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pauly, Philip J.
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.
Subjects:
Horticulture > United States > History.
Physical Description:xi, 336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Culture and degeneracy: failures in Jefferson's garden
  • The United States' first invasive species: the Hessian fly as a national and international issue
  • The development of American culture, with special reference to fruit
  • Fixing the accidents of American natural history: tree culture and the problem of the prairie
  • Immigrant aid: naturalizing plants in the nineteenth century
  • Mixed borders: a political history of plant quarantine
  • Gardening American landscapes: from Hyde Park to Curtis Prairie
  • The horticultural construction of Florida
  • Culturing nature in the twentieth century
  • America the beautiful.