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Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Annual Report on the Improvement of the Central Park, New York
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Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Pages : 222
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Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park
Author: New York (N.Y.). Board of Commissioners of the Central Park
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Category : Central Park (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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Category : Central Park (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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Fruits and Plains
Author: Philip J. Pauly
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674026636
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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The engineering of plants has a long history on this continent. Fields, forests, orchards, and prairies are the result of repeated campaigns by amateurs, tradesmen, and scientists to introduce desirable plants, both American and foreign, while preventing growth of alien riff-raff. These horticulturists coaxed plants along in new environments and, through grafting and hybridizing, created new varieties. Over the last 250 years, their activities transformed the American landscape. "Horticulture" may bring to mind white-glove garden clubs and genteel lectures about growing better roses. But Philip J. Pauly wants us to think of horticulturalists as pioneer "biotechnologists," hacking their plants to create a landscape that reflects their ambitions and ideals. Those standards have shaped the look of suburban neighborhoods, city parks, and the "native" produce available in our supermarkets. In telling the histories of Concord grapes and Japanese cherry trees, the problem of the prairie and the war on the Medfly, Pauly hopes to provide a new understanding of not only how horticulture shaped the vegetation around us, but how it influenced our experiences of the native, the naturalized, and the alien--and how better to manage the landscapes around us.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674026636
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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The engineering of plants has a long history on this continent. Fields, forests, orchards, and prairies are the result of repeated campaigns by amateurs, tradesmen, and scientists to introduce desirable plants, both American and foreign, while preventing growth of alien riff-raff. These horticulturists coaxed plants along in new environments and, through grafting and hybridizing, created new varieties. Over the last 250 years, their activities transformed the American landscape. "Horticulture" may bring to mind white-glove garden clubs and genteel lectures about growing better roses. But Philip J. Pauly wants us to think of horticulturalists as pioneer "biotechnologists," hacking their plants to create a landscape that reflects their ambitions and ideals. Those standards have shaped the look of suburban neighborhoods, city parks, and the "native" produce available in our supermarkets. In telling the histories of Concord grapes and Japanese cherry trees, the problem of the prairie and the war on the Medfly, Pauly hopes to provide a new understanding of not only how horticulture shaped the vegetation around us, but how it influenced our experiences of the native, the naturalized, and the alien--and how better to manage the landscapes around us.
Annual Report
Author: New York (N.Y.). Department of Parks
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Category : Parks
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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Includes Department of Parks, Borough of Manhattan.
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Category : Parks
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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Includes Department of Parks, Borough of Manhattan.
Consolidated Annual Report of the Comptroller of the City of New York for the Fiscal Year ...
Author: New York (N.Y.). Office of the Comptroller
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Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Classified Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Geographical Society
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382106388
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382106388
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Comptroller's Annual Report of the Revenues and Expenditures
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Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Miscellaneous Documents, Read in the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Author: Pennsylvania. General Assembly
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Languages : en
Pages : 1200
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Pages : 1200
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Annual Report of the Comptroller of the City of New York, of the Receipts and Expenditures of the Corporation, for the Year ...
Author: New York (N.Y.). Office of the Comptroller
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Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Catalogue of the library of the Massachusetts historical society
Author: John Appleton (M.D.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 672
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Languages : en
Pages : 672
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