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Explores the unprecedented burst of horticulture interest in the nineteenth-century, and documents its influence on Midwestern domestic landscapes. With its careful portrayal of actual ornamental plant use and its examination of nineteenth-century horticultural advice literature and nursery and seed trades, For Shade and for Comfort will appeal to rural, cultural, and environmental historians of the midwest, and those readers who simply love horticulture and gardening.

For Shade and for Comfort: Democratizing

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      Publisher Purdue University Press
      Published 31 August 2003
      ISBN-13 9781557532862
      978-1557532862
      ISBN-10 1557532869
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      History: specific events and topics Home & Garden Gardening Botany and plant sciences

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      Book Synopsis
      Explores the unprecedented burst of horticulture interest in the nineteenth-century, and documents its influence on Midwestern domestic landscapes. With its careful portrayal of actual ornamental plant use and its examination of nineteenth-century horticultural advice literature and nursery and seed trades, For Shade and for Comfort will appeal to rural, cultural, and environmental historians of the midwest, and those readers who simply love horticulture and gardening.

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