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PART II PERSONAL PAPERS and ORGANIZATIONAL RECORDS Allen, Paul Hamilton, 1911-1963 Collection 1 RG 4/1/5/15 Photographs, 1937-1959 (1.0 Linear Feet)
PART II PERSONAL PAPERS AND ORGANIZATIONAL RECORDS Allen, Paul Hamilton, 1911-1963 Collection 1 RG 4/1/5/15 Photographs, 1937-1959 (1.0 linear feet) Paul Allen was a botanist and plantsman of the American tropics. He was student assistant to C. W. Dodge, the Garden's mycologist, and collector for the Missouri Botanical Garden expedition to Panama in 1934. As manager of the Garden's tropical research station in Balboa, Panama, from 1936 to 1939, he actively col- lected plants for the Flora of Panama. He was the representative of the Garden in Central America, 1940-43, and was recruited after the War to write treatments for the Flora of Panama. The photos consist of 1125 negatives and contact prints of plant taxa, including habitat photos, herbarium specimens, and close-ups arranged in alphabetical order by genus and species. A handwritten inventory by the donor in the collection file lists each item including 19 rolls of film of plant communities in El Salvador, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. The collection contains 203 color slides of plants in Panama, other parts of Central America, and North Borneo. Also included are black and white snapshots of Panama, 1937-1944, and specimen photos presented to the Garden's herbarium. Allen's field books and other papers that may give further identification are housed at the Hunt Institute of Botanical Documentation. Copies of certain field notebooks and specimen books are in the herbarium curator correspondence of Robert Woodson, (Collection 1, RG 4/1/1/3). Gift, 1983-1990. ARRANGEMENT: 1) Photographs of Central American plants, no date; 2) Slides, 1947-1959; 3) Black and White photos, 1937-44. -
The Iconography of Plants Collected on the Lewis and Clark Expedition
University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences Great Plains Studies, Center for February 1993 The Iconography of Plants Collected on the Lewis and Clark Expedition Linda Rossi The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA Alfred E. Schuyler The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/greatplainsresearch Part of the Other International and Area Studies Commons Rossi, Linda and Schuyler, Alfred E., "The Iconography of Plants Collected on the Lewis and Clark Expedition" (1993). Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences. 84. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/greatplainsresearch/84 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Great Plains Studies, Center for at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Great Plains Research 3 (February 1993): 39-60 © Copyright 1993 by the Center for Great Plains Studies THE ICONOGRAPHY OF PLANTS COLLECTED ON THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION Linda Rossi and Alfred E. Schuyler The Academy ofNatural Sciences Philadelphia, PA 19103 Abstract. FrederickPursh 's Flora Americae Septentrionalis (1814) is consid ered to be the standardflora ofthe nineteenth century. Additionalfloras ofthis periodwere developed by Nuttall, Elliott, and Torrey and Gray. We know that Meriwether Lewis collected some herbarium specimens that contributed to Pursh's Flora during the Lewis and Clark Expedition of1804-1806. Pursh's Flora was the first to include plants ofthe Pacific Northwest. -
The Wildflower Portfolio
A Tale of Two Women The Wildflower Portfolio Sue LeAf he project began as a gift. Emma and Thomas had come to the holidays. At some time during the TIn 1883, twenty- four- year- old Minneapolis in 1867 as children. Their visit, Emma presented Thomas with a Emma Roberts started collecting, father, John Roberts, a descendent of portfolio of 40 of her original water- identifying, and painting watercolor a Germantown, Pennsylvania, Quaker color paintings of Minnesota’s wild- portraits of wildflowers growing on family, suffered from tuberculosis. flowers. They were done on heavy the untamed edges of Minneapolis. His physician had urged a “fresh air” paper, the detailed images including She was aided by her older brother cure. As their father sought relief in bloom, leaves, stem, and often roots. Thomas, who knew where special the pure air of a young Minneapolis, The back of each painting was labeled plants grew— early in the project, the children frequently accompanied with common and scientific names, he discovered a non- native low hop- him, learning from him an apprecia- and many of them included the hab- clover in A. J. Hill’s yard in St. Paul tion of nature. Emma was particularly itat from which the flower had been and took it home to her.1 She may not taken with plants, while Thomas fo- collected. Thomas, a fine botanist have told him that the paintings were cused on birds. In 1881 Emma began himself, appreciated the scientific ac- destined as a present for him, but drawing lessons, the first indication curacy of the renderings and showed surely she caught his enthusiasm for from family papers that she was seri- them to Philadelphia horticulturist Minnesota’s wildflowers and trans- ously interested in art.2 Thomas Meehan, whom he met at a ferred it to her brush. -
Fremontia Journal of the California Native Plant Society
$10.00 (Free to Members) VOL. 40, NO. 1 AND VOL. 40, NO. 2 • JANUARY 2012 AND MAY 2012 FREMONTIA JOURNAL OF THE CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY THE NEW JEPSONJEPSON MANUALMANUAL THE FIRST FLORA OF CALIFORNIA NAMING OF THE GENUS SEQUOIA FENS:FENS: AA REMARKABLEREMARKABLE HABITATHABITAT AND OTHER ARTICLES VOL. 40, NO. 1 AND VOL. 40, NO. 2, JANUARY 2012 AND MAY 2012 FREMONTIA CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY CNPS, 2707 K Street, Suite 1; Sacramento, CA 95816-5130 FREMONTIA Phone: (916) 447-CNPS (2677) Fax: (916) 447-2727 Web site: www.cnps.org Email: [email protected] VOL. 40, NO. 1, JANUARY 2012 AND VOL. 40, NO. 2, MAY 2012 MEMBERSHIP Membership form located on inside back cover; Copyright © 2012 dues include subscriptions to Fremontia and the CNPS Bulletin California Native Plant Society Mariposa Lily . $1,500 Family or Group . $75 Bob Hass, Editor Benefactor . $600 International or Library . $75 Patron . $300 Individual . $45 Beth Hansen-Winter, Designer Plant Lover . $100 Student/Retired/Limited Income . $25 Brad Jenkins, Cynthia Powell, CORPORATE/ORGANIZATIONAL and Cynthia Roye, Proofreaders 10+ Employees . $2,500 4-6 Employees . $500 7-10 Employees . $1,000 1-3 Employees . $150 CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY STAFF – SACRAMENTO CHAPTER COUNCIL Executive Director: Dan Glusenkamp David Magney (Chair); Larry Levine Dedicated to the Preservation of Finance and Administration (Vice Chair); Marty Foltyn (Secretary) Manager: Cari Porter Alta Peak (Tulare): Joan Stewart the California Native Flora Membership and Development Bristlecone (Inyo-Mono): -
Botanist and Plant Exploration on the Pacific Oc Ast of North America: a Bibliography James P
Humboldt State University Digital Commons @ Humboldt State University Botanical Studies Open Educational Resources and Data 2017 Botanist and Plant Exploration on the Pacific oC ast of North America: A Bibliography James P. Smith Jr Humboldt State University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/botany_jps Part of the Botany Commons Recommended Citation Smith, James P. Jr, "Botanist and Plant Exploration on the Pacific oC ast of North America: A Bibliography" (2017). Botanical Studies. 3. https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/botany_jps/3 This Plant Taxonomy - Systematic Botany is brought to you for free and open access by the Open Educational Resources and Data at Digital Commons @ Humboldt State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Botanical Studies by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Humboldt State University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. BOTANISTS AND PLANT EXPLORATION ON THE PACIFIC COAST OF NORTH AMERICA: A BIBLIOGRAPHY Compiled by James P. Smith, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Botany Department of Biological Sciences Humboldt State University Arcata, California Ninth edition • 1 January 2017 This compilation is intended to be both a dictionary and a bibliography of selected literature on the individuals who made significant contributions to our floristic knowledge of the vascular plants (lycophytes, ferns, conifers, and flowering plants) of the Pacific Coast of North America north of Mexico. These were the botanists (professional and amateur), explorers, and others who went into the field, sometimes at great peril, to collect the specimens that now reside in our herbaria and that formed the basis of our understanding of the flora of our region. -
Historic Bartram's Garden
HISTORIC AMERICAN LANDSCAPES SURVEY JOHN BARTRAM HOUSE AND GARDEN (Bartram’s Garden) HALS No. PA−1 Location: 54th Street and Lindbergh Boulevard, Philadelphia, Independent City, Pennsylvania. Present Owner: City of Philadelphia. Present Occupant: The John Bartram Association. Present Use: Historic botanic garden, public park, and offices of the John Bartram Association. Significance: Bartram’s Garden is the oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States. John Bartram (1699−1777), the well-known early American botanist, explorer, and plant collector founded the garden in September 1728 when he purchased a 102-acre farm in Kingsessing Township, Philadelphia County. John Bartram’s garden began as a personal landscape, but with a lifelong devotion to plants grew to become a systematic collection as he devoted more time to exploration and the discovery of new North American species and examples. Its evolution over time both reflected and fostered Bartram’s vital scientific achievements and important intellectual exchange. Although not the first botanic collection in North America, by the middle of the eighteenth century Bartram’s Garden contained the most varied collection of North American plants in the world, and placed John Bartram at the center of a lucrative business centered on the transatlantic transfer of plants. Following the American Revolution, Bartram’s sons John Bartram, Jr. (1743–1812) and William Bartram (1739–1823), continued the international trade in plants and expanded the family’s botanic garden and nursery business. Following his father’s lead, William became an important naturalist, artist, and author in his own right, and under his influence the garden became an educational center that aided in training a new generation of natural scientists and explorers. -
How Gardening Pays: Leisure, Labor and Luxury in Nineteenth- Century Transatlantic Culture
W&M ScholarWorks Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects Theses, Dissertations, & Master Projects 2000 How gardening pays: Leisure, labor and luxury in nineteenth- century transatlantic culture Robin Veder College of William & Mary - Arts & Sciences Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd Part of the American Studies Commons, Canadian History Commons, and the Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons Recommended Citation Veder, Robin, "How gardening pays: Leisure, labor and luxury in nineteenth-century transatlantic culture" (2000). Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects. Paper 1539623995. https://dx.doi.org/doi:10.21220/s2-cvgv-zy92 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses, Dissertations, & Master Projects at W&M ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects by an authorized administrator of W&M ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. INFORMATION TO USERS This manuscript has been reproduced from the microfilm master. UMI films the text directly from the original or copy submitted. Thus, some thesis and dissertation copies are in typewriter face, while others may be from any type of computer printer. The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. Broken or indistinct print, colored or poor quality illustrations and photographs, print bleedthrough, substandard margins, and improper alignment can adversely affect reproduction. In the unlikely event that the author did not send UMI a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if unauthorized copyright material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. -
The Introduction of Japanese Plants Into North America
Bot. Rev. (2017) 83:215–252 DOI 10.1007/s12229-017-9184-3 The Introduction of Japanese Plants Into North America Peter Del Tredici1,2 1 Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, 1300 Centre Street, Boston, MA 02131, USA 2 Author for Correspondence; e-mail: [email protected] Published online: 8 June 2017 # The New York Botanical Garden 2017 Abstract This article describes the history of plant introductions from Japan into North America, from the Perry Expedition in 1854 through the collections of George Rogers Hall of Bristol, Rhode Island and Thomas Hogg of New York City between 1861 and 1875. Both men sent plants to the innovative nurseryman, Samuel Bowne Parsons of Flushing, Long Island, who propagated and sold them to the gardening public. This process, which took more than twenty years from initial collection through commercial distribution, succeeded in adding innumerable Japanese species into the ornamental landscapes of North America, including Japanese maple, kousa dogwood, panicle hydrangea, and Sawara cypress. Unfortunately these early introductions also included a number of species which escaped cultivation and have become infamously invasive, including oriental bittersweet, kudzu, porcelain berry and Japanese honeysuckle. The pioneering work of these three horticulturists–compounded over the past hundred and fifty years–has had a profound impact on both cultivated and wild landscapes across North America. Keywords George Rogers Hall . James Hogg . Thomas Hogg . Invasive species . Japanese horticulture . Kissena nurseries . New York Botanical Garden . Samuel B. Parsons . Samuel Parsons, Jr. Introduction Landscape gardening–the large-scale planting of trees, shrubs and lawns for ornamental purposes–did not really become popular in the United States until after the Revolu- tionary War, once the American economy got back on its feet and commercial ties with England were reestablished. -
121 PLEASANT ST Name of Resource: Joseph Meehan House
ADDRESS: 121 PLEASANT ST Name of Resource: Joseph Meehan House Proposed Action: Designation Property Owner: CDPHI LLC Nominator: Keeping Society of Philadelphia Staff Contact: Megan Cross Schmitt; [email protected] OVERVIEW: This nomination proposes to designate the property at 121 Pleasant Street and list it on the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places. The nomination contends that the property satisfies Criteria for Designation A and J. Under Criterion A, the nomination argues that the property is significant owing to its association with the life and work of Joseph Meehan, “a prominent editor, horticulturalist, landscape gardener, nurseryman, writer and veteran of the Civil War.” Under Criterion J, the nomination argues that the property is significant as a representation of the “commercial and cultural legacy of the larger Meehan family in Mt. Airy, Germantown, and Philadelphia.” Joseph Meehan was the brother of famous botanist, author, and publisher Thomas Meehan, who ran Meehan & Sons Nursery in the Mt. Airy section of Philadelphia. The nomination implies that the yard to the west of the house is historically significant because Meehan “no doubt began planting on the grounds” when he purchased the property in 1880. However, the nomination does not identify any specific features including plants that might convey that significance. The nomination states that “the feeling of a bygone era is further amplified by the ample landscape of matured trees and plantings that occupy the large undeveloped lots on both sides of the dwelling.” The yard to the west was historically associated with the Meehan house. Houses stood on the parcels to the east until after 1962. -
Agriculture (Opportunities for Research in the Watkinson Library)
Trinity College Trinity College Digital Repository Watkinson Library (Rare books & Special Watkinson Publications Collections) 7-1-2018 American Periodicals: Agriculture (Opportunities for Research in the Watkinson Library) Leonard Banco Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/exhibitions Recommended Citation Banco, Leonard, "American Periodicals: Agriculture (Opportunities for Research in the Watkinson Library)" (2018). Watkinson Publications. 30. https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/exhibitions/30 YRsH R l iculture, 4.rboricultu re, EDITED BY THOMAS rie:, Vol. XY. HINTS FOR MAE RDEN AND PLEASURE take in the C-rROU.1:·D. effect ~eems r h is one of he worst times tor a maga- very much t ours ) · r hints for th«· month. While ma.ny unique southern end of our '' p ri h " the dutch many years r almost out of blo om, and the rose There have , l1 ni:.:h come ; on our northern coast features introd still lingers in the lap of spring," and dens the past ye a snowdrep has bane ?d it clear white hardy shrubs a~ 111 from mother ·,irth to our admiration. beds. The little 1 · hints nre alw · to be taken as gen 1, mus, E. radicane r 1 · u as spec·. 1 directions and if in some a harming bord, the time should be gone by for any usefu and such other thh Series Introduction A traditional focus of collecting in the Watkinson since we opened on August 28, 1866, has been American periodicals, and we have quite a good representation of them from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries. -
An Annotated Calendar of the Letters of Charles Darwin in the Library of the American Philosophical Society 1799-1882 Mss.B.D25
An Annotated Calendar of the Letters of Charles Darwin in the Library of the American Philosophical Society 1799-1882 Mss.B.D25 American Philosophical Society 3/2002 105 South Fifth Street Philadelphia, PA, 19106 215-440-3400 [email protected] An Annotated Calendar of the Letters of Charles Darwin in the Library of the American Philosophical ... Table of Contents Summary Information ................................................................................................................................. 3 Background note ......................................................................................................................................... 5 Scope & content ..........................................................................................................................................7 Administrative Information .......................................................................................................................23 Related Materials ...................................................................................................................................... 24 Indexing Terms ......................................................................................................................................... 28 Other Finding Aids ................................................................................................................................... 30 Other Descriptive Information ..................................................................................................................30 -
William Judd Correspondence May Be Found by Searching the Arnold Arboretum Correspondence Index
Archives IV A-1 WHJ William Henry Judd (1888-1946) papers, 1913-1946: Guide. The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University © 2011 President and Fellows of Harvard College IV A-1 WHJ William Henry Judd (1888-1946) papers, 1913-1946: Guide Archives of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University 125 Arborway, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts © 2011 President and Fellows of Harvard College Descriptive Summary Repository: Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130. Call No.: IV A-1 WJ Location: Archives Title: William Henry Judd (1888-1946) papers, 1913-1946. Date(s): 1913-1946 Creator: Judd, William H. Quantity: 5 linear feet Language of material: English Abstract: William Henry Judd (1888-1946) was born in Preston Brook, Cheshire, England. In 1913, Judd came to the Arnold Arboretum to work as assistant to the Arnold Arboretum’s propagator, Jackson Thornton Dawson. When Dawson died in 1916, Judd was appointed propagator of trees and shrubs. He would continue to serve the Arboretum in this capacity until his sudden, premature death at 59 in 1946. The papers include correspondence, accession and field note records, weather reports, diaries, and photographs of William H. Judd. Notes: Access to Finding Aid record in Hollis. The first 265 pages of Judd’s Diary in Series IV, box 4 contain the earliest accessions for the Arboretum (1-685). Preferred Citation: William Henry Judd papers. Archives of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. Additional material: Additional William Judd correspondence may be found by searching the Arnold Arboretum Correspondence Index. Processing Information Compiled by Mary Harrison, Library Volunteer. Edited by Sheila Connor, Horticultural Research Archivist; Kyle Port, Curatorial Assistant; Marla Zando, Library Assistant, February 1998.