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1.
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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Modern plant hunters : adventures in pursuit of extraordinary plants / Sandy Primrose. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: [London] : Pimpernel Press Ltd., [2019]Copyright date: ©2019
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK61 .P75 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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Robert Fortune : a plant hunter in the Orient / Alistair Watt ; foreward by Professor David Mabberley AM. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: Kew, Richmond, Surrey : Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 2016
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK31.F63 W38 2016.
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Orchid Fever : A Horticultural Tale of Love, Lust, and Lunacy. by Series: Vintage Departures Ser
Material type: Text Text; Format: available online remote; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: Westminster : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2016Copyright date: 2016
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
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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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The smallest kingdom : plants and plant collectors at the Cape of Good Hope / Mike and Liz Fraser. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Richmond, Surrey : Kew, 2011
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK21.S6 F73 2011.
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In the footsteps of Augustine Henry and his Chinese plant collectors / Seamus O'Brien ; foreword by Roy Lancaster. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Woodbridge, Suffolk : Garden Art Press, c2011
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK355 .O26 2011.
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The brother gardeners : botany, empire, and the birth of an obsession / Andrea Wulf. by
Edition: 1st U.S ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (2)Call number: SB61 .W85 2009, ...
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Chlorophyll in his veins : J.C. Raulston, horticultural ambassador / Bobby J. Ward ; edited by Roy C. Dicks ; foreward by Roy Lancaster. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Raleigh, N.C. : BJW Books, 2009 (2010 printing)
Other title:
  • J.C. Raulston, horticultural ambassador
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB63.R38 W37 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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The Brother Gardeners. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: available online remote; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: Westminster : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2009Copyright date: 2009
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
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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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Monkey puzzle man : Archibald Menzies, plant hunter / James McCarthy. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: available online remote; Literary form: Not fiction
Publisher: Scotland, England : Whittles Pub., 2008Copyright date: 2008
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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Herbarium [electronic resource] / Robyn Stacey & Ashley Hay. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: electronic available online remote; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, 2004
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1).
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From the ends of the earth / Christian Lamb. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Honiton : Bene Factum, 2004
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK31.L29 A3 2004.
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The plant hunter's garden : the new explorers and their discoveries / Bobby J. Ward ; foreword by Brian Mathew. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Portland, Or. : Timber Press, 2004
Online access:
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB39 .W256.
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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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George Forrest, plant hunter / Brenda McLean. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Woodbridge : Antique Collectors' Club in association with the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, c2004
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB63 .F6 M163.
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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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In pursuit of plants : experiences of nineteenth & early twentieth century plant collectors / Philip Short. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Portland, Or. : Timber Press, 2004
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB39 .S559.
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"Forget not mee & my garden..." : selected letters, 1725-1768 of Peter Collinson, F.R.S. / edited and with an introduction by Alan W. Armstrong. by Series: Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society ; v. 241.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society, 2002
Other title:
  • Forget not mee and my garden
Online access:
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB63 .C713.
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The orchid thief / Susan Orlean. by
Edition: 1st Ballantine ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : Ballantine, 2000
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB61 .O75 2000.
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Orchid fever : a horticultural tale of love, lust, and lunacy / Eric Hansen. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : Pantheon Books, c2000
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB61 .H249.
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The plant hunters : two hundred years of adventure and discovery around the world / Toby Musgrave, Chris Gardner and Will Musgrave. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: London : New York, NY : Ward Lock ; Distributed in the U.S. by Sterling Pub. Co., 1999
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB61 .M987.
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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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The gardener's atlas : the origins, descovery and cultivation of the world's most popular garden plants / John Grimshaw ; consultant, Bobby Ward. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Willowdale, Ont. : Buffalo, New York : Firefly Books ; Firefly Books (USA), 1998
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB406 .G865 1998.
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A pioneering plantsman : A.K. Bulley and the great plant hunters / Brenda McLean. by Series: Great plant collectors
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: London : Stationary Office, 1997
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB61 .M163.
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The collector's garden : designing with extraordinary plants / Ken Druse ; edited by Margaret Roach ; design by Richard Ferretti. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : Clarkson Potter, c1996
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB466.U6 D797.
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A plantsman in Nepal / Roy Lancaster. by
Edition: Enlarged and rev. ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Woodbridge, Suffolk, England : Antique Collectors Club, 1995
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB39 .L246p l995.
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Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturists : including plant collectors, flower painters, and garden designers / Ray Desmond ; with the assistance of Christine Ellwood. by
Edition: Rev. and completely updated ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: London ; Bristol, PA : London : Taylor & Francis ; Natural History Museum, 1994
Other title:
  • Dictionary of British & Irish botanists and horticulturists
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB61 .D464 1994.
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"Chinese" Wilson : a life of Ernest H. Wilson, 1876-1930 / Roy W. Briggs ; foreword by Roy Lancaster. by Series: Great plant collectors
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: London : HMSO, c1993
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB63 .W747 B854.
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Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types. Supplement / Frans A. Stafleu and Erik A. Mennega. by Series: Regnum vegetabile ; v. 125, etc.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Königstein : Koeltz Scientific Books, 1992-
Availability: Items available for reference: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society: Not for loan (1)Call number: QK45 .S779 v.l, Suppl..
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Gentle conquest : the botanical discovery of North America with illustrations from the Library of Congress / James L. Reveal. by Series: Library of Congress classics
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Washington, D.C. : Starwood Pub., 1992
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK21 .R449.
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Wilson Popenoe : agricultural explorer, educator, and friend of Latin America / by Frederic Rosengarten, Jr. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Lawai, Kauai, Hawaii : National Tropical Botanical Garden, c1991
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB63 .P826 R813.
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Reginald Farrer : Dalesman, planthunter, gardener / edited by John Illingworth and Jane Routh. by Series: Occasional paper (University of Lancaster. Centre for North-West Regional Studies) ; no. 19.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: [Lancaster] : Centre for North-West Regional Studies, University of Lancaster, 1991
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB39 .F25 I3.
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Frank Kingdon-Ward : the last of the great plant hunters. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: London : Murray, cl989
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB63 .K54 L996.
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Wildflowers across America / Lady Bird Johnson and Carlton B. Lees ; photographs selected by Les Line. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: [Austin, Tex.] : New York : National Wildflower Research Center ; Abbeville Press, c1988
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK115 .J68.
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Frank N. Meyer, plant hunter in Asia / by Isabel Shipley Cunningham. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Ames : Iowa State University Press, 1984
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB63 .M612 C973.
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In search of the wild asparagus / Roy Lancaster ; illustrations by Joanna Langhorne. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: London : M. Joseph/Rainbird, 1983
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK83 .L245.
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Botanical exploration of Southern Africa : an illustrated history of early botanical literature on the Cape flora : biographical accounts of the leading plant collectors and their activities in southern Africa from the days of the East India Company until modern times / by Mary Gunn and L.E. Codd. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Cape Town : Published for the Botanical Research Institute by A.A. Balkema, 1981
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: QK396 .G976.
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Plant hunting in Nepal / Roy Lancaster. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: London : Croom Helm, c1981
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB39 .L246p.
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It started in Eden : how the plant-hunters and the plants they found changed the course of history / Bertha S. Dodge. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : McGraw-Hill, c1979
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB107 .D645i.
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The growth of gardens / Richard Gorer. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: London ; Boston : Faber, 1978
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB451 .G666gr.
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Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types / Frans A. Stafleu and Richard S. Cowan. by Series: Regnum vegetabile ; v. 94, etc.
Edition: 2d ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Utrecht : Bohn, Scheltema & Holkema, 1976-1988
Availability: Items available for reference: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society: Not for loan (7)Call number: QK45 .S779 v. 7, ...
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The plant hunters / B. J. Healey. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : Scribner, [1975]
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB39 .H434.
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A history of the orchid, by Merle A. Reinikka. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Coral Gables, Fla., University of Miami Press [1972]
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB409 .R372.
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The plant hunters, being an examination of collecting, with an account of the careers & the methods of a number of those who have searched the world for wild plants [by] Tyler Whittle. by
Edition: [1st ed.]
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Philadelphia, Chilton Book Co. [1970]
Availability: Items available for loan: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1)Call number: SB39 .T985.
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