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Top: The Crabapple Collection Blooming in Spring,
Hanns Gutenstein, Photographer (2000), A Morton Arboretum Collection
in the North American Plants Collection Consortium (NAPCC).
Source: Seasons: A Newsletter of the Morton Arboretum (March/April:
2001), p. 10.
Middle: Henry Shaw's Garden (later the Missouri
Botanical Garden) Chromolithograph, 1875.
Source: Walter T. Punch, ed., Keeping Eden: A History of Gardening
in America (Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1992), p. 220.
Bottom: The University of Wisconsin Arboretum, Tom Riles,
Photographer (1981).
Source: William R. Jordan, ed., The Arboretum: University of
Wisconsin-Madison (Madison: Litho Publications, 1981).
Project Scope
Left: G. Porro and A. Moroni, Pianta dell horto de i
sempliei di Padova (Botanical Garden at the University of
Padua (1591).
Source: John Prest, The Garden of Eden: The Botanic Garden
and the Re- Creation of Paradise (New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1981), p. 44.
Center: Plan of Andrew Parmentier's Horticultural and
Botanical Garden at Brooklyn, New York (c. 1828).
Source: Therese O'Malley, "Landscape Gardening in the Early
National Period," in Edward J. Nygren and Bruce Robertson,
eds., Views and Visions: American Landscape Before 1830 (Washington,
D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1986), p. 157.
Right: Frank Lloyd Wright, Plan for an Arboretum in Plan
of Broadacre City (1935).
Source: Architectural Record (April: 1935), p. 7.
Table of Contents
Francois-André Michaux, Histoire des arbres forestiers
de l'Amerique septentrionale (1810-1813) (Left to Right) (1)
Black Walnut (Juglans nigra) ; (2) Northern Red
Oak (Querus rubra); (3) Shellbark Hickory (Cayra
laciniosa); (4) Southern Catalpa (Catalpa Bignonioides)
Source: Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Chapter II Outline
Opening of the Outline
Left: Samuel Vaughan, A General Plan of Gardens
and Grounds at Mount Vernon for George Washington (1787).
Source: Mount Vernon Ladies Association, The Grounds and Gardens
at Mount Vernon (1982), p. xii.
Center: Franklina alatamaha in William Bartram's
Fothergill Album of American Wild Flowers (1815).
Source: Penelope Hobhouse, Plants in Garden History (Pavilion
Books: 1992), p. 276.
Right: The Elgin Botanic Gardens, New York City,
New York (1801).
Source: WPA Index of American Design Project for New York reprinted
in Francis O'Connor, ed., Art for the Millions, (1975).
Conclusion of Outline
Left: John Claudius Loudon, Plan of the Derby Arboretum,
Derbyshire, England (1839-1841).
Source: Melanie Louise Simo, London and the Landscape: From
Country Seat to Metropolis, 1783-1843 (New Haven: Yale University
Press), p. 195.
Center: Conifer Topiary, Italian Garden and Estate Arboretum,
Horatio Hollis Hunnewell Residence, Wellesley, Massachusetts (1845-Present).
Source: Photography by author, 2001.
Right: Andrew Jackson Downing's Site Plan for Laying Out
a "Public Museum of Trees and Shurbs" on the Washington,
D.C. Mall, 1851.
Source: Annual Report of the Army Corps of Engineers (October
1867).
Research Cohort:
Left: The Family Tree, Sculpture by Eddie Davis,
Highland Botanical Park Arboretum, Rochester, New York.
Source: Photography by author, 2001.
Middle: John and Lydia Morris, Sculpture by Michael
Price, The Morris Arboretum of The University of Pennsylvania.
Source: Sally Davis, editor, Firmly Planted: The Story of the
Morris Arboretum (Virginia Beach, VA: The Donning Company
Publishers, 2001), p. 38.
Right: Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778), Paul T. Granlund,
Sculpture-in-Residence, Gustavus Adolphus College Linnaeus Arboretum,
St. Peter, Minnesota, 1978. (Torso formed in the shape of a linden
tree, wig includes impressions of the layout of Linnaeus's own
garden at the Uppsala Botanical Garden in Sweden.)
Source: Photography by Author, 2001.
Funders
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in Joseph Paxon's Crystal
Palace Exhibition Hall for English Elms (Ulmus procera) and
British Technology (1851).
Source: H.C. Selous, Inauguration of
the Great Exhibition of 1851 (Victoria and Albert Museum,
London).
Graphic Credits
Plates from William Jowit Titford, Hortus botanicus americanus
(1811-1812) illustrating a variety of North American flora, including
Zea mays (corn).
Source: James Reveal, Gentle Conquest: The Botanical Discovery
of North America with Illustrations from The Library of Congress
(Washington, DC: Starwood Publishing, 1992), p. 73.
Author
(Keeper) Thomas Schlereth and a Pseudolarix amabilis (Chinese
Golden Larch).
Photographer W.L. Clausou
(Tree) Sophora japonica (Japanese Pagoda Tree; Chinese
Scholar Tree). Photographer R.A. Clauson.
