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Plants and People

The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife
Annual Proceedings
24 and 25 June 1995

CONTENTS

SECTION I: ENGLISH AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES AND PLANT MATERIAL IN NORTHERN AMERICA

“Peculiar Manuerance”: Puritans, Indians, and the Rhetoric of Agriculture, 1629–1654
Jonathan Beecher Field

“Our English Clover-grass sowen thrives very well”: The Importation of English Grasses and Forages into Seventeenth-Century New England
Daniel A. Romani, Jr.

SECTION II: EARLY PLANT STOCK AND SEED SUPPLIERS

Horticultural Importers and Nurserymen in Boston 1719–1770
Peter Benes

The Prince Family Nursery: Entrepreneurship Abroad and in New England prior to 1850
D.J. and Alan Fusonie

SECTION III: NORTH AMERICAN PLANTS AS MEDICINES

Angelica Roots to Defend the Heart, Coltsfoot for the Measles: Indigenous and Naturalized Remedies in a 1696 Vade Mecum
Micaela Sullivan-Fowler and Norman Gevitz

“A Most Surprising Worm-Killer”: A History of the Use and Cultivation of Wormseed (Chenopodium ambroisides, var. anthelminticum) in Early America
Sandra M. Narva

The Tomato Pill War and the Adoption of the Tomato in New England
Andrew F. Smith

SECTION IV: LANDSCAPES AND GARDENS IN NEW ENGLAND AND NEW YORK

Reform and the Promotion of Ornamental Gardening
Christie H. White

Of Garrison Gardens and Pleasure Grounds: Plants and People at Fort Ticonderoga, New York
Lucinda A. Brockway

The Governor Benning Wentworth House and Farm, Little Harbor, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Anne M. Masury

SECTION V: PLANTS AND AMERICAN AUTHORS

The Poet as Planter: William Cullen Bryant, Landscaper and Horticulturalist
Cathy E. Sabol

SECTION VI: BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND NOTES

An Overview of American Nursery and Seed Catalogues, 1771–1832
John T. Fitzpatrick

A Bibliography of American Nursery and Seed Catalogues, 1771–1832
John T. Fitzpatrick and Judith Ho

Bibliography for Studying Plant-Related Medicines in North America before 1850
J. Worth Estes, M.D.

American Horticulture Observed: A Bibliography of Travel Journals (ca. 1650–1850)
Jennifer Anderson-Lawrence

New England Garden History and Horticultural Bibliography

Keywords in American Landscape Design
Therese O’Malley, Anne Helmreich, and Elizabeth Kryder-Reid

Lecture Program, 24 and 25 June 1995
Abstracts of Conference Papers Not Appearing in This Volume
Photo and Illustration Credits
Notes on Contributors