Fruits and plains
Subtitle: the horticultural transformation of America
By: Philip J. Pauly.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780674026636
Subjects: Horticulture -- United States -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Culture and degeneracy: failures in Jefferson's garden; value: The United States' first invasive species: the Hessian fly as a national and international issue; value: The development of American culture, with special reference to fruit; value: Fixing the accidents of American natural history: tree culture and the problem of the prairie; value: Immigrant aid: naturalizing plants in the nineteenth century; value: Mixed borders: a political history of plant quarantine; value: Gardening American landscapes: from Hyde Park to Curtis Prairie; value: The horticultural construction of Florida; value: Culturing nature in the twentieth century; value: America the beautiful.