Author: United States. Patent Office
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Category : Patents
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents
Author: United States. Patent Office
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Category : Patents
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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Category : Patents
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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Report of the Commissioners of the Ohio State Library
Author: Ohio State Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Senate Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Public Documents and Executive Documents
Author: United States. Congress. Senate
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 954
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 954
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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
Book Description
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.
House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents
Author: United States. Congress. House
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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Bulletin of the New York Public Library
Author: New York Public Library
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
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Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
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Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
Catalogue of the Library of the Massachusetts Historical Society ...
Author: Massachusetts Historical Society. Library
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 670
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 670
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Consolidated Index of the Executive Documents of the House of Representatives
Author: United States. Congress. House
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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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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House Documents
Author: United States House of Representatives
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Languages : en
Pages : 804
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Languages : en
Pages : 804
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