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 (p. [269]-326) and index.
Table of contents: title: Culture and degeneracy: failures in Jefferson's garden; title: The United States' first invasive species: the Hessian fly as a national and international issue; title: The development of American culture, with special reference to fruit; title: Fixing the accidents of American natural history: tree culture and the problem of the prairie; title: Immigrant aid: naturalizing plants in the nineteenth century; title: Mixed borders: a political history of plant quarantine; title: Gardening American landscapes: from Hyde Park to Curtis Prairie; title: The horticultural construction of Florida; title: Culturing nature in the twentieth century; title: America the beautiful.