Botanical progress, horticultural innovation and cultural changes /
Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture(28th :2004)
Conan, Michel.
Kress, W. John.
Smithsonian Institution.Department of Botany.
United States Botanic Garden.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture XXVIII, held at Dumbarton Oaks, May 6-8, 2004"--Preliminary page.
In conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution Department of Botany, and the United States Botanical Garden.
A historical view of relationships between humans and plants / Michel Conan and W. John Kress -- Visionary rose : metaphorical application of horticultural practice in Persian culture / Maria Subtelny -- Art and sciences : private gardens and botany in the early Roman Empire / Alain Touwaide -- The rose in Jewish culture in medieval Spain / Elliot Wolfson -- Links between the Ottoman and the Western World on floriculture and gardening -- Precious beauty : the aesthetic and economic value of Aztec gardens / Susan Toby Evans -- Perfume and power from the ancient Near East to late antiquities / Yizhar Hirschfeld -- Horticultural changes and political upheavals in middle-age Andalusia / Mohammed El Faïz -- Cultural values and political change : cherry gardening in ancient Japan / Wybe Kuitert -- Grafting as an agricultural and cultural practice in ancient China / Georges Métailié -- The Chinampas before and after the conquest / Saúl Alcántara Onofre -- Conservation and diffusion of species diversity in northern Italy : peasant gardens of the renaissance and after -- Horticultural utopianism in France in the late eighteenth century / Michel Conan -- From practice to theory : the emerging profession of landscape gardening in early nineteenth-century America / Therese O'Malley -- Turning over a new leaf : the impact of Qât (Catha edulis) Yemeni horticulture / Daniel Martin Varisco -- The role of horticulture in a changing world / Peter del Tredici.
Ethnobotany
Human-plant relationships
Horticulture
Botanical gardens