Author: Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn
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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 34

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Author: Charles A. Birnbaum
Publisher: Department of Interior National Park Reservation Assistance
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 156

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Author: Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN: 9780884022534
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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An annotated listing of titles held at the Garden Library at Dumbarton Oaks, with an introduction discussing the evolution of American garden culture and landscape architecture in the course of the 19th century. Includes a chronological list of titles as well as an index and a good selection of bandw illustrations. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author: Tamara Plakins Thornton
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300042566
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Between the Revolution and the Civil War, many merchants, financiers, manufacturers, lawyers, and politicians of Boston’s elite settles on country estates, took up gentleman farming, and founded agricultural and horticultural societies. It is a curious fact of history that these men, who were directly responsible for changing the Massachusetts economy from a farming to a commercial and industrial one, spent so much time identifying themselves with things rural and agrarian. In this lively and well-illustrated book, Tamara Plakins Thornton documents the rural pursuits and argues that elite Bostonians drew on their rich reservoir of associations to characterize themselves as virtuous members of a legitimate American elite.

Author: Frederick Howes
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Category : Agricultural exhibitions
Languages : en
Pages : 26

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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 94

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Author: National Agricultural Library (U.S.)
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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Author: Massachusetts Horticultural Society
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 670

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Author: H. A. S. Dearborn
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ISBN: 9781332234486
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 34

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Excerpt from An Address Delivered Before the Massachusetts Horticultural Society: On the Celebration of Their First Anniversary, September 19, 1829 Gentlemen of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, - The history of Horticulture is co-extensive with that of the human race. The first movement towards civilization is evinced, in the cultivation of the soil; and a garden is the incipient type of extended agriculture, and of flourishing empires; the wild and erratic pursuits of the savage, are exchanged for the local and quiet avocations of the husbandman; the arts and sciences are gradually developed, and rendered subservient to the wants of society: but in the progress of intelligence and refinement, those which were earliest called into existence, although expanded and rendered universal, to meet the demands of an increased, and condensed population, are the last which are perfectly matured. All the others must, previously, have approximated towards perfection. It is then, that the grand results of their united application are manifested, in the variety, number, utility, and beauty of the products of rural industry; and that the conveniencies, comforts, and enjoyments of life are fully realized, by the triumphant labors of the accomplished horticulturist. The imperious demands of man are food, raiment, and shelter. These are furnished by the harvests, herds, and flocks of agriculture, and the toils of the mechanic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Massachusetts Horticultural Society (BOSTON, Massachusetts)
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Languages : en
Pages : 34

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