This document provides a history of horticulture and gardening from ancient times to present day. It discusses gardens in ancient Greece and Rome, the development of herbalism and medicinal plant identification in the Middle Ages, the introduction and spread of gardening in North America beginning with early colonies, and the growth of the profession through the 19th century including the work of landscape designers like Frederick Law Olmsted. It also outlines the introduction of plants from around the world, the rise of the USDA and botanical gardens, and how gardening has evolved from communities to individual homeowners by the 20th century.

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

2. The Garden of Eden http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cole_Thomas_The_Garden_of_Eden_1828.jpg

3. The Ancient Greeks Aristotle Theophrastos http://agclark.myweb.uga.edu/images/temp/aristotle_school.jpg

4. The Ancient Romans Marcus PorciusCato. The Elder Marcus Terentius Varro PubliusVergiliusMaro L. JuniusModeratusColumella AeliusGalenus Gaius PliniusSecundus http://www.lifeinitaly.com/files/roman-garden-fountain.jpg

5. The Hunt for a Cure http://www.gardenvisit.com/assets/madge/bedes_world_herb_garden_911_jpg/600x/bedes_world_herb_garden_911_jpg_600x.jpg

6. Truth in Pictures Leonhart Fuchs, (FuchsiusLeonhardus) 1501-1566 Konrad Von Megenberg, 1309-1374

7. Leonhart Fuchs (17 January 1501 – 10 May 1566), http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/Renaissance_C14_F%C3%BCllmaurer_Leonhart_Fuchs.jpg

8. Europe’s Search for New Plants

9. Elizabeth Blackwell (1707–1758)

10. A Near Thing – Gardens in Paradise Boston Jamestown

11. 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)

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

13. Birth of American Horticulture Charles Willson Peale

14. Colonial Gardens; European Reflections http://ncmuseumofhistory.org/exhibits/healthandhealing/elements/media/topic-media/HerbGarden.jpg

15. Bartrams, Nurseries & Gardens http://casacara.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/phila310.jpg?w=500&h=375

16. Andrew Jackson Downing (1815-1852) http://www.livingplaces.com/people/li/Joseph_Walker_Cottage_2.jpg

17. Frederick Law Olmsted (April 26, 1822 – August 28, 1903) http://www.gardenvisit.com/assets/madge/biltmore_shrub_garden/600x/biltmore_shrub_garden_600x.jpg

18. The Great Divide –Shifting Disciplines

19. The Gilded Age of Gardening

20. Plants from ‘round the world Hosta Thomas Hogg Stewartiapseudocamellia

21. Isaac Sprague (September 5, 1811 - 1895)

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

23. Plants from ‘round the world with a twist http://njaes.rutgers.edu/images/photos/weeds/large/kudzu-flower-full.jpg http://www.wisteriaseed.com/images/wisteria%20flower%20Pod.jpg

24. Fairchild & USDA Photo: Greenhouses, Department of Agriculture Building. National Archives and Records Administrati http://www.fairchildgarden.org/uploads/images/About_Fairchild/History/david01a.jpg

25. Early 20th Century http://home-and-gardening.info/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/dumbarton-oaks.jpg http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_N7dFOZ91fkM/S6uc_Gu9MKI/AAAAAAAABro/Aix3sJHUeu4/s400/Beatrix+Farrand+garden.jpg

26. Community to Individual http://www.anythingaboutcars.com/images/1886_Daimler_Automobile.jpg

27. Glenn Dale and the National Arboretum http://www.usna.usda.gov/News/Morrison%20Garden%20Azalea%20Co_9.jpg http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JARS/v22n2/Fig14.jpg

28. The American Garden 2010 http://www.designpov.com/images/ModernLandscape.jpg http://cdn4.mattters.com/photos/photos/1415885/forasstudio.jpg

30. Early USDA Plant Exploration

31. Pomona italiana, ossia trattato degli alberi fruttiferi.by Giorgio Gallesio. 1772-1839.

32. George Cooke Diary (1791-1849) was an antebellum planter in Anne Arundel County, Maryland