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Heroines of horticulture : a celebration of women who shaped North America's gardening heritage / Stefan White.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Atglen, PA : Schiffer Publishing, [2024]Copyright date: ©2024Description: 320 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780764365492
  • 0764365495
Other title:
  • Celebration of women who shaped North America's gardening heritage
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • SB61 .W55 2024
Contents:
Chapter 1: how women were restricted ny education opportunites -- Chapter 2: women botanists and landscape artists -- Chapter 3: The heroiens of horticulture: biographies of the 100 brave, determined, creative women who have shaped North America's heritage and its gardening landscape -- Appendixes: A: Index of the 100 biographies and supplementary index -- B: visiting the featured gardens -- C: about the Cultural Landscape Foundation.
List(s) this item appears in: GardeningWomen
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Circulating Books Pennsylvania Horticultural Society New Books SB61 .W55 2024 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 3182700023248
Total holds: 0

"Through tales of invention, creativity, dogged research, innovation, perspiration, and inspiration spanning from the early 1700s to the mid-1980s, Heroines of Horticulture offers readers insight into 100 influential women who met and overcame obstacles to contribute a horticulture legacy that has helped shape the land that surrounds us today in North America. Many of the featured women are unknown or forgotten figures of horticulture history, making this book an overdue opportunity to acknowledge their work and celebrate their achievements that have left a lasting legacy."--Publisher.

Includes index.

Art is by Pablo Jose Martinez.

Chapter 1: how women were restricted ny education opportunites -- Chapter 2: women botanists and landscape artists -- Chapter 3: The heroiens of horticulture: biographies of the 100 brave, determined, creative women who have shaped North America's heritage and its gardening landscape -- Appendixes: A: Index of the 100 biographies and supplementary index -- B: visiting the featured gardens -- C: about the Cultural Landscape Foundation.

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