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Total Pages : 520 pages
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Download or read book The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and Improvements in Rural Affairs written by and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Mason Hovey
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Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Magazine of Horticulture, Botany and All Useful Discoveries and Improvements in Rural Affairs written by Charles Mason Hovey and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 490 pages
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Download or read book Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and Improvements in Rural Affairs written by and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Victoria Johnson
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631494201
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)
Download or read book American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic written by Victoria Johnson and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2018 National Book Award for Nonfiction A New York Times Editors' Choice Selection The untold story of Hamilton’s—and Burr’s—personal physician, whose dream to build America’s first botanical garden inspired the young Republic. On a clear morning in July 1804, Alexander Hamilton stepped onto a boat at the edge of the Hudson River. He was bound for a New Jersey dueling ground to settle his bitter dispute with Aaron Burr. Hamilton took just two men with him: his “second” for the duel, and Dr. David Hosack. As historian Victoria Johnson reveals in her groundbreaking biography, Hosack was one of the few points the duelists did agree on. Summoned that morning because of his role as the beloved Hamilton family doctor, he was also a close friend of Burr. A brilliant surgeon and a world-class botanist, Hosack—who until now has been lost in the fog of history—was a pioneering thinker who shaped a young nation. Born in New York City, he was educated in Europe and returned to America inspired by his newfound knowledge. He assembled a plant collection so spectacular and diverse that it amazes botanists today, conducted some of the first pharmaceutical research in the United States, and introduced new surgeries to America. His tireless work championing public health and science earned him national fame and praise from the likes of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Alexander von Humboldt, and the Marquis de Lafayette. One goal drove Hosack above all others: to build the Republic’s first botanical garden. Despite innumerable obstacles and near-constant resistance, Hosack triumphed when, by 1810, his Elgin Botanic Garden at last crowned twenty acres of Manhattan farmland. “Where others saw real estate and power, Hosack saw the landscape as a pharmacopoeia able to bring medicine into the modern age” (Eric W. Sanderson, author of Mannahatta). Today what remains of America’s first botanical garden lies in the heart of midtown, buried beneath Rockefeller Center. Whether collecting specimens along the banks of the Hudson River, lecturing before a class of rapt medical students, or breaking the fever of a young Philip Hamilton, David Hosack was an American visionary who has been too long forgotten. Alongside other towering figures of the post-Revolutionary generation, he took the reins of a nation. In unearthing the dramatic story of his life, Johnson offers a lush depiction of the man who gave a new voice to the powers and perils of nature.
Author : Judith Sumner
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476691312
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Plants in the Civil War written by Judith Sumner and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-11-02 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slavery was at the heart of the South's agrarian economy before and during the Civil War. Agriculture provided products essential to the war effort, from dietary rations to antimalarial drugs to raw materials for military uniforms and engineering. Drawing on a range of primary sources, this history examines the botany and ethnobotany of America's defining conflict. The author describes the diverse roles of cash crops, herbal medicine, subsistence agriculture and the diet and cookery of enslaved people.
Author : Eric Grissell
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1557539073
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (575 download)
Download or read book A History of Zinnias written by Eric Grissell and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-30 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Zinnias brings forward the fascinating adventure of zinnias and the spirit of civilization. With colorful illustrations, this book is a cultural and horticultural history documenting the development of garden zinnias—one of the top ten garden annuals grown in the United States today. The deep and exciting history of garden zinnias pieces together a tale involving Aztecs, Spanish conquistadors, people of faith, people of medicine, explorers, scientists, writers, botanists, painters, and gardeners. The trail leads from the halls of Moctezuma to a cliff-diving prime minister; from Handel, Mozart, and Rossini to Gilbert and Sullivan; from a little-known confession by Benjamin Franklin to a controversy raised by Charles Darwin; from Emily Dickinson, who writes of death and zinnias, to a twenty-year-old woman who writes of reanimated corpses; and from a scissor-wielding septuagenarian who painted with bits of paper to the “Black Grandma Moses” who painted zinnias and inspired the opera Zinnias. Zinnias are far more than just a flower: They represent the constant exploration of humankind’s quest for beauty and innovation.
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Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Farmers' Cabinet, and American Herd-book written by and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Mason Hovey
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Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book American Gardener's Magazine, and Register of Useful Discoveries and Improvements in Horticulture and Rural Affairs written by Charles Mason Hovey and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Myra Beth Young Armstead
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814707920
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Freedom's Gardener written by Myra Beth Young Armstead and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unearths an unexpected bloom of liberty in an ex-slave's journal.
Author : Myra B. Young Armstead
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814707912
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Freedom’s Gardener written by Myra B. Young Armstead and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating study of freedom and slavery, told through the life of an escaped slave who built a life in the Hudson Valley In 1793 James F. Brown was born a slave, and in 1868 he died a free man. At age 34 he ran away from his native Maryland to pass the remainder of his life as a gardener to a wealthy family in the Hudson Valley. Two years after his escape and manumission, he began a diary which he kept until his death. In Freedom’s Gardener, Myra B. Young Armstead uses the apparently small and domestic details of Brown’s diaries to construct a bigger story about the transition from slavery to freedom. In this first detailed historical study of Brown’s diaries, Armstead utilizes Brown’s life to illuminate the concept of freedom as it developed in the United States in the early national and antebellum years. That Brown, an African American and former slave, serves as such a case study underscores the potential of American citizenship during his lifetime.
Author : Smithsonian Institution
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Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of Publications of Societies and of Periodical Works Belonging to the Smithsonian Institution, January 1, 1866 written by Smithsonian Institution and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Smithsonian Institution
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Total Pages : 928 pages
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Download or read book Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections written by Smithsonian Institution and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 930 pages
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Download or read book Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections written by and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Farmers' Cabinet written by and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Massachusetts. General Court. Senate
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Total Pages : 1246 pages
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Download or read book Documents Printed by Order of the Senate ... written by Massachusetts. General Court. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 1246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : State Library of Massachusetts
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Total Pages : 318 pages
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Download or read book Report of the Librarian and Annual Supplement to the General Catalogue written by State Library of Massachusetts and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tatiana Holway
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199911169
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book The Flower of Empire written by Tatiana Holway and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1837, while charting the Amazonian country of Guiana for Great Britain, German naturalist Robert Schomburgk discovered an astounding "vegetable wonder"--a huge water lily whose leaves were five or six feet across and whose flowers were dazzlingly white. In England, a horticultural nation with a mania for gardens and flowers, news of the discovery sparked a race to bring a live specimen back, and to bring it to bloom. In this extraordinary plant, named Victoria regia for the newly crowned queen, the flower-obsessed British had found their beau ideal. In The Flower of Empire, Tatiana Holway tells the story of this magnificent lily, revealing how it touched nearly every aspect of Victorian life, art, and culture. Holway's colorful narrative captures the sensation stirred by Victoria regia in England, particularly the intense race among prominent Britons to be the first to coax the flower to bloom. We meet the great botanists of the age, from the legendary Sir Joseph Banks, to Sir William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, to the extravagant flower collector the Duke of Devonshire. Perhaps most important was the Duke's remarkable gardener, Joseph Paxton, who rose from garden boy to knight, and whose design of a series of ever-more astonishing glass-houses--one, the Big Stove, had a footprint the size of Grand Central Station--culminated in his design of the architectural wonder of the age, the Crystal Palace. Fittingly, Paxton based his design on a glass-house he had recently built to house Victoria regia. Indeed, the natural ribbing of the lily's leaf inspired the pattern of girders supporting the massive iron-and-glass building. From alligator-laden jungle ponds to the heights of Victorian society, The Flower of Empire unfolds the marvelous odyssey of this wonder of nature in a revealing work of cultural history.
