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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.
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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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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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The multifarious mr banks : from botany bay to kew, the natural historian who shaped the world / Toby Musgrave. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: available online remote; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020]Copyright date: 2020
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
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André Michaux in North America : journals & letters, 1785-1797 / translated from the French, edited, and annotated by Charlie Williams, Eliane M. Norman & Walter Kingsley Taylor ; with a foreword by James E. McClellan III. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Language: English Original language: French Publisher: Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, [2020]
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK31.M45 M53 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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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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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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In the footsteps of Joseph Dalton Hooker : a Sikkim adventure / Seamus O'Brien. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: Richmond : Kew Publishing, 2018Copyright date: ©2018
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK31.H6 O3 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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Lab girl / Hope Jahren. by
Edition: First edition.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QH31.J344 A3 2016.
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The lord treasurer of botany : Sir James Edward Smith and the Linnaean collections / Tom Kennett. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: London : Linnaean Society of London, 2016
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK31.S59 K46 2016.
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New Brunswick was his country : the life of William Francis Ganong / Ronald Rees. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: available online remote; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: Halifax, Nova Scotia : Nimbus Publishing LTD, 2016Copyright date: 2016
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
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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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Fruits of Eden : David Fairchild and America's plant hunters / Amanda Harris. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015
Other title:
  • David Fairchild and America's plant hunters
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK31.F2 H37 2015.
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Studying Wisconsin : the life of Increase Lapham, early chronicler of plants, rocks, rivers, mounds and all things Wisconsin / Martha Bergland and Paul G. Hayes ; designed by Nancy Warnecke. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: available online remote; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: Madison, Wisconsin : Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2014Copyright date: 2014
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
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Fathers of botany : the discovery of Chinese plants by European missionaries / Jane Kilpatrick. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK26 .K55 2014.
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Jean Galbraith : writer in a valley / Meredith Fletcher. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: available online remote; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: Victoria, Australia : Monash University Publishing, in association with the State Library of Victoria, 2014Copyright date: 2014
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
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The notorious Sir John Hill : the man destroyed by ambition in the era of celebrity / George Rousseau. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Bethlehem, [Pa.] : Lanham, Md. : Lehigh University Press ; Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, 2012
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: CT788.H54 R68 2012.
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La ictionimia andaluza en el siglo XVIII [electronic resource] : el caso de Cádiz y Pehr Löfling (1753) / Mercedes de la Torre y Alberto M. Arias. by Series: Fondo hispánico de lingüística y filología ; v. 13
Material type: Text Text; Format: electronic available online remote; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Bern ; New York : Peter Lang, 2012
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
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The reindeer botanist [electronic resource] : Alf Erling Porsild, 1901-1977 / Wendy Dathan. by Series: Northern lights series ; 14. | Canadian Electronic Library. Canadian publishers collection.
Material type: Text Text; Format: available online remote; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Calgary [Alta.] : University of Calgary Press, c2012 2013)
Other title:
  • Alf Erling Porsild, 1901-1977.
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
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The paper road [electronic resource] : archive and experience in the botanical exploration of West China and Tibet / Erik Mueggler. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: electronic available online remote; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
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The paper road : archive and experience in the botanical exploration of West China and Tibet / Erik Mueggler. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK355 .M83 2011.
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On Harper's trail : Roland McMillan Harper, pioneering botanist of the southern coastal plain / Elizabeth Findley Shores. by
Edition: Pbk. ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2010
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK31 .H26 S56 2010.
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Gonçalo Sampaio [electronic resource] : Professor e botânico notável / Joâo Paula Cabral. by Series: Memoria (Sellerio editore) ; 1.
Edition: 1a. ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: electronic available online remote; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Porto : Universidade do Porto, 2009
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
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Jane Colden : America's first woman botanist / Paula Ivaska Robbins. by
Edition: First edition.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: Fleischmanns, New York : Purple mountain Press, 2009
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK31.C614 R63 2009.
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Flower hunters / Mary Gribbin & John Gribbin. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK26 .G75 2009.
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Herbario [electronic resource]. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: electronic available online remote; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: [New York : Parkstone International, 2008]
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Poisoned Petals. by Series: A Penny Lee Garden Mystery Ser
Material type: Text Text; Format: available online remote; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: East Rutherford : Penguin Publishing Group, 2007Copyright date: 2007
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
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Marie-Victorin à Cuba [electronic resource] : correspondance avec le frère Léon / édition annotée par André Bouchard. by Series: Canadian Electronic Library. Canadian publishers collection.
Material type: Text Text; Format: available online remote; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: [Montréal, Qué.] : Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 2007 2010)
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
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"Good observers of nature" [electronic resource] : American women and the scientific study of the natural world, 1820-1885 / Tina Gianquitto. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: electronic available online remote; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2007
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
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The world of Kew / Carolyn Fry. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: London : BBC, 2006
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK 73 .K4 F79 2006.
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Pretty Poison. by Series: A Penny Lee Garden Mystery Ser
Material type: Text Text; Format: available online remote; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: East Rutherford : Penguin Publishing Group, 2005Copyright date: 2005
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
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Plants from the edge of the world : new explorations in the Far East / Mark Flanagan and Tony Kirkham. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Portland : Timber Press, c2005
Online access:
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB39 F39 2005.
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Botanical companions [electronic resource] : a memoir of plants and place / by Frieda E. Knobloch ; foreword by Wayne Franklin. by Series: American land and life series
Material type: Text Text; Format: electronic available online remote; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2005
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
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Quaker plant hunters : from North America's early frontier to the South Pacific : John & William Bartram of Philadelphia then Sydney Parkinson on Captain Cook's Endeavour voyage / by David Sox. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: York, England : Sessions Book Trust, c2004
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB61 .S731.
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Both : a portrait in two parts / Douglas Crase. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : Pantheon Books, c2004
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK31.B29 C73 2004.
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America's curious botanist : a tercentennial reappraisal of John Bartram, 1699-1777 / edited by Nancy E. Hoffmann and John C. Van Horne. by Series: Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society ; v. 243
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society, 2004
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK31 .B3.
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The flower hunter : William Bartram, America's first naturalist / Deborah Kogan Ray. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Primary;
Publication details: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003, c2004
Online access:
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB457 .R263f.
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"A region of astonishing beauty" [electronic resource] : the botanical exploration of the Rocky Mountains / Roger L. Williams. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: electronic available online remote; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Lanham, Md. : R. Rinehart, c2003
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
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New world botany : Columbus to Darwin / Ronald H. Petersen. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Ruggell [Liechtenstein] : Königstein, Germany : A.R.G. Gantner Verlag ; Distributed by Koeltz Scientific Books, 2001
Other title:
  • Columbus to Darwin
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK15 .P48 2001.
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A Rum affair : a true story of botanical fraud / Karl Sabbagh. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK31 .H39 S23 2000.
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Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker : traveller & plant collector. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Woodbridge : Antique Collectors' Club with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 1999
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB63 .H783 D464.
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George Bentham [electronic resource] : autobiography, 1800-1834 / edited by Marion Filipiuk. by Series: Canadian electronic library. Books collection.
Material type: Text Text; Format: electronic available online remote; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Toronto [Ont.] ; Buffalo [N.Y.] : University of Toronto Press, c1997
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
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Cultivating women, cultivating science : Flora's daughters and botany in England, 1760-1860 / Ann B. Shteir. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK26 .S561.
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The natures of John and William Bartram / Thomas P. Slaughter. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1996
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QH26 .S631.
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