History of Horticulture Sept 2010

History of Horticulture The Art and Science of Gardening
John Peter Thompson
&
USDA NAL
National Agricultural Library
September 28th, 2010

The Garden of Eden
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The Ancient Greeks
Aristotle
Theophrastos
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The Ancient Romans
Marcus PorciusCato. The Elder
Marcus Terentius Varro
PubliusVergiliusMaro
L. JuniusModeratusColumella
AeliusGalenus
Gaius PliniusSecundus
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The Hunt for a Cure
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Truth in Pictures
Leonhart Fuchs, (FuchsiusLeonhardus) 1501-1566
Konrad Von Megenberg, 1309-1374

Leonhart Fuchs (17 January 1501 – 10 May 1566),
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Europe’s Search for New Plants

Elizabeth Blackwell (1707–1758)

A Near Thing – Gardens in Paradise
Boston
Jamestown

American Degeneracy
Carl Nilsson Linnæus, Carl von Linné
(23 May 1707 - 10 January 1778
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
(7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788)

Birth of American Horticulture
William
Prince
Nurseryman
New York
Oenotheragrandiflora
Found in Alabama
by William Bartram
in 1775

Birth of American Horticulture
Charles Willson Peale

Colonial Gardens; European Reflections
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Bartrams, Nurseries & Gardens
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Andrew Jackson Downing (1815-1852)
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Frederick Law Olmsted (April 26, 1822 – August 28, 1903)
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The Great Divide –Shifting Disciplines

The Gilded Age of Gardening

Plants from ‘round the world
Hosta Thomas Hogg
Stewartiapseudocamellia

Isaac Sprague (September 5, 1811 - 1895)

William Edwards (March 15, 1822 – April 4, 1909)

Plants from ‘round the world with a twist
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Fairchild & USDA
Photo: Greenhouses, Department of Agriculture Building. National Archives and Records Administrati
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Early 20th Century
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Community to Individual
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Glenn Dale and the National Arboretum
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http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JARS/v22n2/Fig14.jpg

The American Garden 2010
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Support Conservation of Our Agricultural Heritage Materials Identified for Conservation Treatment
Early American Nursery and Seed Trade Catalogs
Early USDA Plant Exploration
Pomona italiana, ossia trattato degli alberi fruttiferi.by Giorgio Gallesio. 1772-1839.
George Cooke Diary (1791-1849) was an antebellum planter in Anne Arundel County, Maryland

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