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1.
Mischievous creatures : the forgotten sisters who transformed early American science / Catherine McNeur. by
Edition: First edition.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print regular print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Adult;
Copyright date: ©2023Publisher: New York, NY : Basic Books, Hachette Book Group, [2023]
Other title:
  • Forgotten sisters who transformed early American science
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: Q141 .M375.
2.
Better living through birding : notes from a Black man in the natural world / Christian Cooper. by
Edition: First edition.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: New York : Random House, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023
Other title:
  • Notes from a Black man in the natural world
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QL682 .C66 2023.
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Soil : the story of a Black mother's garden / Camille T. Dungy. by
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Adult;
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2023Copyright date: ©2023
Other title:
  • Story of a Black mother's garden
Availability: Not available: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society: Checked out (1).
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Black flora : profiles of inspiring Black flower farmers + florists / Teresa J. Speight. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Adult;
Copyright date: ©2022Publisher: Gig Harbor, WA : Bloom Imprint, [2022]
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB405 .S666 2022.
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Flora's Fieldworkers : women and botany in nineteenth-century Canada / edited by Ann Shteir. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK21.C2 F56 2022.
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The forgotten botanist : Sara Plummer Lemmon's life of science and art / Wynne Brown. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]
Other title:
  • Sara Plummer Lemmon's life of science and art
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK31.L455 B76 2021.
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We are each other's harvest : celebrating African American farmers, land, and legacy / Natalie Baszile. by
Edition: First edition.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: HD8039.F32 U6168 2021.
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Diary of a young naturalist / Dara McAnulty. by
Edition: First US edition.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: Minneapolis : Milkweed Editions, 2021Copyright date: ©2020
Availability: No items available.
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The arbornaut : a life discovering the eighth continent in the trees above us / Meg Lowman. by
Edition: First edition.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021Copyright date: ©2021
Other title:
  • Life discovering the eighth continent in the trees above us
  • Arbornaut : a life discovering the 8th continent in the trees above us
  • Life discovering the 8th continent in the trees above us
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK31.L69 A3 2021.
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Finding the mother tree : discovering the wisdom of the forest / Suzanne Simard. by
Edition: First edition.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Adult;
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021Copyright date: ©2021
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SD411.52.S56 A3 2021.
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The planter of modern life : Louis Bromfield and the seeds of a food revolution / Stephen Heyman. by
Edition: First edition.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: PS3503.R66 Z756 2020.
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Spirited stone : lessons from Kubota's garden / photography by Gemina Garland-Lewis ; foreword, Charles Johnson. by
Edition: First edition.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: Seattle, WA : Chin Music Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2019
Other title:
  • Lessons from Kubota's garden
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB466.U65 S43 2020.
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Windcliff : a story of people, plants, and gardens / Daniel J. Hinkley ; photography by Claire Takacs. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: Portland, Oregon : Timber Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2020
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB 466 .U7 .W56 2020.
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Writing wild : women poets, ramblers, and mavericks who shape how we see the natural world / Kathryn Aalto. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: Portland, Oregon : Timber Press, 2020
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: PN471 .A25 2020.
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The earth in her hands : 75 extraordinary women working in the world of plants / Jennifer Jewell. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: Portland, Oregon : Timber Press, 2020
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB61 .J478 2020.
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Who is Greta Thunberg? / by Jill Leonard ; illustrated by Manuel Gutierrez. by Series: Who HQ NOW
Material type: Text Text; Format: available online remote; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: New York : Penguin Workshop, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020
Online access:
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
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I am farmer : growing an environmental movement in Cameroon / Baptiste Paul and Miranda Paul ; illustrations by Elizabeth Zunon. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Juvenile;
Publisher: Minneapolis : Millbrook Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: S473.C17 P38 2019.
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The journey of York : the unsung hero of the Lewis and Clark Expedition / by Hasan Davis ; illustrated by Alleanna Harris ; content consulting by James J. Holmberg, Curator of Collections, the Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky. by Series: Encounter (Capstone Press)
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Juvenile;
Publisher: North Mankato, Minnesota : Capstone Editions, a Capstone imprint, [2019]
Other title:
  • Unsung hero of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: F592.7 .D37 2019.
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Beth Chatto : a life with plants / Catherine Horwood. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: General;
Publication details: London : Pimpernel Press Limited, 2019
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB470.C477 H67 2019.
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The sakura obsession : the incredible story of the plant hunter who saved Japan's cherry blossoms / Naoko Abe. by
Edition: First United States edition.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Language: English Original language: Japanese Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019Copyright date: ©2019
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK31.I54 A2313 2019.
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What Linnaeus saw : a scientist's quest to name every living thing / Karen Magnuson Beil. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Juvenile;
Publisher: New York, NY : Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company, 2019Manufacturer: [Stevens Point (Wisc.)] : Worzalla ; 2019Copyright date: ©2019
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QH44 .B45 2019.
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Buzzing with questions : the inquisitive mind of Charles Henry Turner / Janice N. Harrington ; illustrated by Theodore Taylor III. by
Edition: First edition.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Juvenile;
Publisher: Honesdale, Pennsylvania : Calkins Creek, an imprint of highlights, [2019]
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QL31 .T866 H37 2019.
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To speak for the trees : my life's journey from ancient Celtic wisdom to a healing vision of the forest / Diana Beresford-Kroeger. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: Toronto : Random House Canada, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK31.B474 A3 2019.
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The boy who grew a forest : the true story of Jadav Payeng / by Sophia M. Gholz ; illustrated by Kayla Harren. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Juvenile;
Publisher: Ann Arbor, Michigan : Sleeping Bear Press, [2019]
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: GE56 .P39 G46 2019.
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Nature's friend : the Gwen Frostic story / written by Lindsey McDivitt & illustrated by Eileen Ryan Ewen. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Juvenile;
Publisher: [Ann Arbor, MI] : Sleeping Bear Press, [2018]
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: NX512 .F76 M39 2018.
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The girl who drew butterflies : how Maria Merian's art changed science / Joyce Sidman. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Juvenile;
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2018]
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QL31 .M53 S53 2018.
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The poison squad : one chemist's single-minded crusade for food safety at the turn of the twentieth century / Deborah Blum. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: New York, New York : Penguin Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018
Other title:
  • One chemist's single-minded crusade for food safety at the turn of the twentieth century
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: TX518.W5 B58 2018.
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How to change your mind : what the new science of psychedelics teaches us about consciousness, dying, addiction, depression, and transcendence / Michael Pollan. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print regular print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018
Online access:
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: RM324.8 .P65 2018.
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American Eden : David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic / Victoria Johnson. by
Edition: First edition.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2018]
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (3)Call number: QK99.U6 J64 2018, ...
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The food explorer : the true adventures of the globe-trotting botanist who transformed what America eats / Daniel Stone. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: New York, New York : Dutton, [2018]
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK31.F2 S76 2018b.
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The wasp and the orchid : the remarkable life of Australian naturalist Edith Coleman / Danielle Clode. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Adult;
Publisher: Sydney, New South Wales : Picador, 2018Copyright date: ©2018
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QH31.C59 C56 2018.
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Collecting the world : Hans Sloane and the origins of the British Museum / James Delbourgo. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: AM401.S58 D45 2017.
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The home place : memoirs of a colored man's love affair with nature / J. Drew Lanham. by
Edition: First paperback edition.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2017Copyright date: ©2016
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QL31.L373 .A3 2017.
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Out of school and into nature : the Anna Comstock story / written by Suzanne Slade ; illustrated by Jessica Lanan. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Juvenile;
Publisher: Ann Arbor, MI : Sleeping Bear Press, [2017]
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QH31.C72 S53 2017.
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The world of Laura Ingalls Wilder : the frontier landscapes that inspired the Little House books / by Marta McDowell. by
Edition: First edition.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: Portland, Oregon : Timber Press, 2017
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: PS3545.I342 Z7685 2017.
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Head gardeners / Ambra Edwards ; photographs by Charlie Hopkinson. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: London : Pimpernel Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB61 .E39 2017.
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Karl, get out of the garden! : Carolus Linnaeus and the naming of everything / Anita Sanchez ; illustrated by Catherine Stock. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Juvenile;
Publisher: Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, [2017]
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QH31.L69 S26 2017.
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The natural history of Edward Lear (1812-1888) / Robert McCracken Peck ; with a foreword by David Attenborough. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: Jaffrey, New Hampshire : David R. Godine, Publisher, 2016
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QH31.L424 P43 2016.
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Capability Brown and his landscape gardens / Sarah Rutherford. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: London : National Trust, 2016
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB470.B7 R88 2016.
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Wangari Maathai : the woman who planted millions of trees / Franck Prévot ; illustrated by Aurélia Fronty ; translated by Dominique Clément. by
Edition: First US edition.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print regular print ; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Juvenile;
Language: English Original language: French Publisher: Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: GE56.M33 P7413 2015.
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James Sowerby : the enlightenment's natural historian / Paul Henderson. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: Richmond, Surrey, UK : Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 2015
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QH31.S625 H46 2015.
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The curious Mister Catesby : a "truly ingenious" naturalist explores new worlds / edited for the Catesby Commemorative Trust by E. Charles Nelson and David J. Elliott ; foreword by Jane O. Waring. by Series: Wormsloe Foundation nature book
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, 2015
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QH31.C35 C87 2015.
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The tree lady : the true story of how one tree-loving woman changed a city forever / H. Joseph Hopkins ; illustrated by Jill McElmurry. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Primary;
Publisher: New York : Beach Lane Books, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB63 .S47 H67 2013.
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The omnipotent magician : Lancelot 'capability' Brown, 1716-1783 / Jane Brown. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: London : Chatto & Windus, 2011
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB470.B7 B76 2011.
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The species seekers : heroes, fools, and the mad pursuit of life on Earth / Richard Conniff. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : W.W. Norton, ©2011
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QH26 .C66 2011.
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Abundant beauty : the adventurous travels of Marianne North, botanical artist. by
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Vancouver : Greystone Books, 2011, c2010
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK31 .N67 A3 2011.
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Monkey puzzle man : Archibald Menzies, plant hunter / James McCarthy. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Dunbeath : Whittles, 2008
Online access:
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK31.M435 M33 2008.
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Nature's alchemist : John Parkinson, herbalist to Charles I / Anna Parkinson. by
Edition: 1st Frances Lincoln ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: London : Frances Lincoln, 2007
Online access:
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: RS164 .P37 2007.
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Strange blooms : the curious lives and adventures of the John Tradescants / Jennifer Potter. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: London : Atlantic, 2006
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB61.T7 P8.
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The boy who drew birds : a story of John James Audubon / by Jacqueline Davies ; illustrated by Melissa Sweet. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Juvenile;
Publication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2004
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QL31.A9 D38 2004.
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