Author: Philip J. Pauly
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.
Fruits and Plains
Author: Philip J. Pauly
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.
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.
Plain and Pleasant Talk about Fruits, Flowers, and Farming
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Plain and Full Instructions to Raise All Sorts of Fruit-trees that Prosper in England
Plain and Full Instructions to raise all Sorts of Fruit-Trees that prosper in England ... with ... directions about ... making plantations ... and ... for making liquors of the several sorts of fruit
Author: T. Langford
Publisher:
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Category : Beverages
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beverages
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Plain and Pleasant Talk about Fruits, Flowers and Farming
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Publisher: University of Michigan Library
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Publisher: University of Michigan Library
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Plain Thoughts on the Sealed Book
Author: James Smith (of 2 Craignestock Place, Glasgow.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Agricultural Ledger
Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting
Author: Western New York Horticultural Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fruit-culture
Languages : en
Pages : 982
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fruit-culture
Languages : en
Pages : 982
Book Description
Cookery and Domestic Economy for Young Housewives. (A Work of Plain Practical Utility)
Plain Home Talk about the Human System, the Habits of Men and Women, the Causes and Prevention of Disease, Our Sexual Relations and Social Natures
Author: Edward Bliss Foote
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hygiene
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hygiene
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description