Plants and People (1995)

The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife Proceedings from 1995. 

Introduction of English agricultural practices and cultivated plants into North America, eighteenth-century Boston nurserymen and gardeners, early plant stock and seed suppliers, North American plants as medicines and health foods, ornamental and estate gardens, horticulture and American authors, seed catalogue studies. Four bibliographies, research notes. 192 pp. 39 half-tone maps and illustrations. Click here to view Table of Contents.