Thomas J. Schlereth: Keepers of Trees

Keepers of Trees: A Cultural History of North American Arboreta and Arborphilia

1700-2000

Note: The following article was initially presented as a lecture at the international converence, "Cultural and Historical Geographies of the Arboretum," held at the Linnaean Society of London, September 6-8, 2006. It was subsequently published in a special issue of Garden History (35: Suppl. 2. 2007), pp. 196-216. Here it is posted with the permission and courtesy of Dr. Barbara Simms, Editor, Garden History and Paul Elliott, Charles Watkins and Stephen Daniels, guest editors of the special issue of Garden History cited above. The author also wishes to acknowledge the helpful comments that each of these scholars made on the penultimate draft of the article which is a synoptic treatment of the key interpretive themes presented in chapters 2 and 3 of the "Keepers of Trees" manuscript.

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