Author: O. P. SweetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Sweet's Amusement Directory and Travelers' Guide
Sweet's Amusement Directory and Travelers' Guide from the Atlantic to the Pacific ...
Author: Sweet's amusement directory and traveler's guide from the Atlantic to the Pacific
Author: O. P. SweetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The Roots of Flower City
Author: Camden BurdPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501777947
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
In The Roots of Flower City, Camden Burd explores the economic and ecological significance of Rochester plant nurserymen over the course of the nineteenth century. As the first boomtown in the United States, Rochester was an embodiment of nineteenth-century market economies and social reform movements. Connected to the eastern seaboard by the Erie Canal, the city's unique economic, cultural, and environmental conditions fostered and sustained a vast and influential commercial plant nursery industry that attracted the nation's most prominent horticulturists and nurserymen. Rochester-area nurserymen built parks and rural cemeteries, landscaped homes and schools, and promoted horticultural pursuits regionally and nationally. As their influence grew, many of these horticultural entrepreneurs developed into the city's elite and played a leading role in shaping Rochester's economic, social, and physical landscape. Most significantly, nurserymen enthusiastically participated in the American imperial project, selling and distributing fruit, shade, and ornamental trees, shrubs, and flowers across the continent, transforming landscapes and ecologies far beyond New York. The Roots of Flower City tells the remarkable history of Rochester's outsized influence on the homes, estates, towns, and cities of nineteenth-century America as it weathered economic downturns and competition from other regions. One threat, however, proved to be too much to overcome. As Burd details, the spread of the destructive San Jose scale through the transcontinental plant trade prompted federal legislation that would lead to the decline of the Rochester plant nursery industry in the last decade of the nineteenth century, ending a sustained era of success and ecological impact.
N-Z, pages 803-1,110
Author: Brooklyn LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Catalogue of the Mercantile Library of Brooklyn: N-Z
Author: Mercantile Library Association of BrooklynPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Catalogue of books added to the library of Congress
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336811980X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Catalogue of books added to the Library of Congress
Author: Washington D.C., libr. of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Catalogue of Books Added to the Library of Congress
Author: Library of Congress. Catalog, 1868Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Catalogue...authors, Titles, Subjects, and Classes
Author: Brooklyn Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description