Author: Garden Club of AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 718
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Bulletin of the Garden Club of America
Author: Garden Club of AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 718
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Annual Meeting
Author: Garden Club of AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
The Garden Club of America
Author: William SealePublisher: Smithsonian Institution
ISBN: 1588343286
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
How women changed the American landscape from planting war victory gardens to saving the redwoods, beautifying the highway to creating horticultural standards. In 1904, Elizabeth Price Martin founded the Garden Club of Philadelphia. In 1913, twelve garden clubs in the eastern and central United States signed an agreement to form the Garden Guild. The Garden Guild would later become the Garden Club of America (GCA), now celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2013. GCA is a volunteer nonprofit organization comprised of 200 member clubs and approximately 18,000 members throughout the country. Comprised of all women, GCA has emerged as a national leader in the fields of horticulture, conservation, and civic improvement. As an example, in 1930, GCA was a key force in preserving the redwood forests of California, helping to create national awareness for the need to preserve these forests, along with contributing funds to purchase land on which they stood. The Garden Club of America Grove and the virgin forest tract of Canoe Creek contain some of the finest specimens of the redwood forests. The Garden Club of America is a centennial celebration of strong women who nurtured the country, helped spread the good word of gardening, and continue to plant seeds of awareness.
Encyclopedia of American Associations
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Category : Associations, institutions, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1806
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Encyclopedia of Associations: National organizations of the U. S
Author: Gale Research CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Associations, institutions, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1552
Book Description
Fruits and Plains
Author: Philip J. PaulyPublisher: 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.
Landscape Architecture
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Category : Landscape architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Broadcasting
Author: Billboard
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.
Catalogue of the Library of the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
Author: Harvard University. Graduate School of Design. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architectural design
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description