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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pauly, Philip J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horticulture--United States--History.

Horticulture.

History.

United States.

Physical Description:

xi, 336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-326) and index.

ISBN:

9780674026636

0674026632

OCLC:

147982653