Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The New Genesee Farmer and Gardener's Journal
Author: New Genesee Farmer and Gardener's Journal
Author: The Genesee Farmer and Gardener's Journal
Author: Genesee Farmer and Gardener's Journal
Author: New Genesee Farmber and Gardeners' Journal
Author: 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.
New England Farmer, and Gardener's Journal
Author: Miscellaneous Publication
Author: Change in Agriculture
Author: Clarence H. DanhofPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674107700
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
American agriculture changed radically between 1820 and 1870. In turning slowly from subsistence to commercial farming, farmers on the average doubled the portion of their production places on the market, and thereby laid the foundations for today's highly productive agricultural industry. But the modern system was by no means inevitable. It evolved slowly through an intricate process in which innovative and imitative entrepreneurs were the key instruments.
List of the Agricultural Periodicals of the United States and Canada Published During the Century July 1810 to July 1910
Author: Emma Beatrice HawksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This list of agricultural periodicals of the United States and Canada does not represent a complete list.