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The Biltmore Nursery : a botanical legacy / Bill Alexander.
- Title
- The Biltmore Nursery : a botanical legacy / Bill Alexander.
- Author
- Alexander, Bill, 1950-
- Publication
- Charleston, S.C. : Natural History Press, 2007.
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Text | Request in advance | SB118.74.N82 A44 2007 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 1 v. (various pagings) : ill. (some col.), col. map; 25 cm.
- Summary
- This landmark book tells the story of the Biltmore Nursery in two fascinating ways: a revealing overview history and a complete reproduction of the 1912 Biltmore Nursery Catalog. The history tells the story of the Nursery from its establishment in 1889 to its destruction in a catastrophic flood in 1916, and the profusely illustrated catalog offers a guide to the cultivated trees, shrubs and plants of North America during the early twentieth century, with more than 1,700 distinct varieties described. Presented here as never before, Biltmore Estate's rich botanical legacy will resonated with Biltmore lovers, horticulturalists and gardeners, botanists and dendrologists, landscape architects, students and historians.--COVER.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- "Featuring the 1912 Biltmore nursery catalog reproduced in its entirety"--T.p.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Pt. 1. The Biltmore nursery : A botanical legacy -- A model forest -- "A small park and a small pleasure ground and garden" -- The approach road -- The Biltmore arboretum -- The Biltmore herbarium -- The Biltmore nursery -- Primary research sources -- App. A. The Biltmore nursery plant distributions -- App. B. Notes on plant nomenclature and invasive plants -- Pt. 2. The 1912 Biltmore nursery catalog reproduced in its entirety.
- ISBN
- 9781596292383 (alk. paper)
- 1596292385 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2007001415
- OCLC
- 80180126
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library