The Biltmore Nursery
Subtitle: a botanical legacy
By: Bill Alexander.
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781596292383
Subjects: Biltmore Nursery (Biltmore, N.C.) -- History; Landscape plants -- North Carolina -- History; Germplasm resources, Plant -- North Carolina -- History
Description: This landmark book tells the story of the Biltmore Nursery in two fascinating ways: a revealing overview history and a complete reproduction of the 1912 Biltmore Nursery Catalog. The history tells the story of the Nursery from its establishment in 1889 to its destruction in a catastrophic flood in 1916, and the profusely illustrated catalog offers a guide to the cultivated trees, shrubs and plants of North America during the early twentieth century, with more than 1,700 distinct varieties described. Presented here as never before, Biltmore Estate's rich botanical legacy will resonated with Biltmore lovers, horticulturalists and gardeners, botanists and dendrologists, landscape architects, students and historians.--COVER.