BL DO-03.pdf

Books on gardens, horticulture, and botany

Accession number	G1e:BL DO-03
Alternative title	List of books on garden, horticulture, botany, etc.
Creator	Anne Sweeney
Garden Area	Garden Library and Ribbon Walk
Date	1947
Work types	book lists

Description

Typewritten alphabetical list of books on garden topics, ranked as good, fair, or valuable.

List is undated and created uncertain. Possibly created by Anne Sweeney in 1947 based on correspondence where the list is sent to Beatrix Farrand.

Title created by cataloger.

Subjects

rare books

books

bibliographies

titles (documents)

authors

horticulture

botany

landscape gardening

lists (document genres)

Collection

Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives

Repository

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, Rare Book Collection

Dumbarton Oaks, Washington (D.C.)

Accession number	G1e:BL DO-03
Alternative title	List of books on garden, horticulture, botany, etc.
Creator	Anne Sweeney
Garden Area	Garden Library and Ribbon Walk
Date	1947
Work types	book lists

Index Terms

Barnhart, John Hendley → "European influence on American Botany"

Rohde, Eleanour Sinclair → books on plants, herbals, etc. by

"European influence on American Botany" (Barnhart)

Abercrombie, John → Dictionary of Botany

Arber, Agnes Robertson → Recent work on History of Botany in the Old World

Breitschneider, Emil → History of European Botanical discoveries in China

Bower, Frederick O. → A Century of Botany: 1855-1935

Brendel, Frederick → Historical sketch of the science of Botany in North America from 1635-1840-1848

Brotherton, Robert P. → Old-time gardening: plants introduced in 17th century in alphabetical order

Goodale, George L. → Floras of different countries ?

Green, Joseph Reynolds → A History of Botany 1860-1900 — a continuation of Sachs' History of Botany

Green, Thomas → The universal herbal; or, Botanical, medical, and agricultural dictionary

Fox, Helen Morgantheau → About garden books, old and new → marked X (fair)

Evans, Mary → Garden books, old and new: selected, classified, and with annotations → marked X (fair)

Hazlitt, W. Carew → Gleanings in Old Garden Literature → marked XX (good)

Jackson, B. D. → Guide to Literature of Botany: classified selection of Botanical Works

Medsger, O. P. → Edible Wild Plants of the U.S. and Canada → marked X (fair)

McNamara, Katherine → Landscape architecture; a classified bibliography, with an author index, compiled in the Library of the schools of landscape architecture and city planning, Harvard University → marked XXX (valuable)

Miller, Philip → The gardeners dictionary

Sudworth, G. B. → Check List of the Forest Trees of the U.S. - their names and ranges

Traub, Hamilton → Development of American Horticultural literature between 1800 and 1850

Warner, Marjorie F. → Bibliography of Gardening → marked XX (good)

Lockwood, Alice G. B. → compiler of Gardens of colony and state; gardens and gardeners of the American colonies and of the republic before 1840 (Garden Club of America) → marked XXX (valuable)

Loudon, John C. → An encyclopedia of gardening, comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape gardening → marked X (fair)

Dictionary of Botany (Abercrombie)

Recent work on History of Botany in the Old World (Arber)

History of European Botanical discoveries in China (Breitschneider)

A Century of Botany: 1855-1935 (Bower)

Historical sketch of the science of Botany in North America from 1635-1840-1848 (Brendel)

Old-time gardening: plants introduced in 17th century in alphabetical order (Brotherton)

Floras of different countries ? (Goodale)

A History of Botany 1860-1900 — a continuation of Sachs' History of Botany (Green)

The universal herbal; or, Botanical, medical, and agricultural dictionary (Green)

About garden books, old and new (Fox) → marked X (fair)

Garden books, old and new: selected, classified, and with annotations (Evans) → marked X (fair)

Gleanings in Old Garden Literature (Hazlitt) → marked XX (good)

Guide to Literature of Botany: classified selection of Botanical Works (Jackson)

Edible Wild Plants of the U.S. and Canada (Medsger) → marked X (fair)

Landscape architecture; a classified bibliography, with an author index, compiled in the Library of the schools of landscape architecture and city planning, Harvard University (McNamara) → marked XXX (valuable)

The gardeners dictionary (Miller)

Check List of the Forest Trees of the U.S. - their names and ranges (Sudworth)

Development of American Horticultural literature between 1800 and 1850 (Traub)

Bibliography of Gardening (Warner) → marked XX (good)

Gardens of colony and state; gardens and gardeners of the American colonies and of the republic before 1840 (Garden Club of America) → marked XXX (valuable)

An encyclopedia of gardening, comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape gardening (Loudon) → marked X (fair)

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Isabelle Stover to Anne Sweeney, April 30, 1947

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