Acta Horticulturae - "Complete and accurate record of all Acta Horticulturae titles with more than 27,000 full text articles and abstracts." (International Society for Horticultural Science.)
Agricola - National Agricultural Library Article Citation Database
Andean Botanical Information System - Provides "collection information from the floristic and systematic investigations of the phanerogams (flowering plants) of Andean South America. ABIS is developing a networked database of specimen-label data for selected groups of Andean plants, including the flora of coastal Peru and Chile, floristic inventories of montane forests of northern Peru, and monographic treatments with online images."
Center for Agricultural Bioinformatics: Botanical Databases - The Medicinal Plants of North America Database (MPNADB) is "based on a two-volume book of the same name published in 1986 by the Museum of Anthropology of the University of Michigan. The database - which contains 17,634 items representing the medicinal uses of 2,147 species from 760 genera and 142 families by 123 different native American groups - was built over a period of about 10 years with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, and the University of Michigan-Dearborn." The Food Plant Database, based on Food Plants of the North American Indians by Elias Yanovsky, c1936, reviewed approximately 80 years of literature, back to around 1850, listing 1,112 species in 444 genera of plants among 120 families, used for food by the North American Indians.
Cultivar Checklists for Ornamental Plants (2000) - Art Tucker, University of Delaware. "Updated vesion of Appendix XI, Checklists of Ornamental Cultivars, of the International Code of Nomenclatue for Cultivated Plants-1995, pp. 89-140, which in turn was taken from Arnoldia 55(4):1-59 (1994-1995)." This 90 page checklist (Acer to Zinnia ) is helpful for authenticating plants purchased from nurseries.The Literature Cited section begins on p. 34.
Flora of North America - Collaborative project of over 800 botanists and 30 institutions in the US and Canada "to provide authoritative, up-to-date information on the names, relationships, characteristics, and distributions of the approximately 21,000 species of plants that grow outside of cultivation in North America north of Mexico."
FloraWeb - Service of the Bundesamt für Naturschutz (Federal Agency for Nature Conservation). In German only. Click on (1)Datenservice, (2) Information und Fotos zu Pflanzenarten (3) search for viola.
Flowering Plant Gateway - Texas A&M University Bioinformatics Working Group provides ""arious paths for exploration or comparison of three major systems of flowering plant classification."
Flowerweb - Dutch site offers Flowerbase, a database offering over 10,000 pictures of flowers, plants and garden plants.
Garden-cult - Garden database (Freitext-Datenbank) developed by Uwe Schneider and Gert Groning. "Allows access to bibliographical information for articles which have been published in the field of garden culture and open space development in professional journals between 1887 and 1945 in Germany." Has over 52, 000 annotated entries. The search page has an English interface, but the results are in German.
Global Invasive Species Database - "Developed by the IUCN/SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG) as part of the global initiative on invasive species led by the Global Invasive Species Programme (GISP). It provides global information on invasive alien species to agencies, resource managers, decision-makers, and interested individuals."
GRIN Taxonomy - National Genetic Resources Program. A simple search for kenaf (Hibiscus cannabinus L) provides the Genus (Hibiscus), Family (Malvaceae), common names (bastard-jute, bimli-jute, Deccan-hemp, Indian-hemp, Java-jute, mesta, chanvre de Bombay, Ambari, Dekkanhanf and Gambohanf) and seed sources.
Index Herbariorum - Detailed directory of over 3000 public herbaria of the world and the 8800+ staff members associated with them. Joint project of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) and the New York Botanical Garden. Information available for searching includes addresses of herbaria, names of those to write to for use of the collections via loans or visits, names of staff members associated with herbaria, telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and URL addresses, and research specialties.
International Plant Name Index - "Database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants, ferns and fern allies. Its goal is to eliminate the need for repeated reference to primary sources for basic bibliographic information about plant names. The data are freely available and are gradually being standardized and checked. IPNI will be a dynamic resource, depending on direct contributions by all members of the botanical community."
Kew Herbarium Catalogue - "The Herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew houses approximately 7 million specimens, collected from all around the world. Specimens are either pressed and dried or preserved in spirit. Kew is committed to making this important collection more accessible to botanists and others, wherever they may be, for use in their own projects: particularly in biodiversity, conservation, sustainable development and systematics. To this end we are building an electronic Herbarium Catalogue containing images of the specimens and information taken from their collection labels."
Native American Ethnobotany Database: Foods, Drugs, Dyes, and Fibers of Native North American Peoples - Dan Moerman, Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan. “The current edition of the database is substantially enlarged and including foods, drugs, dyes, fibers and other uses of plants (a total of over 44,000 items). This represents uses by 291 Native American groups of 4,029 species from 243 different plant families.”
NatureServe Explorer - “Authoritative source for information on more than 65,000 plants, animals, and ecosystems of the United States and Canada. Explorer includes particularly in-depth coverage for rare and endangered species.”
New York Flora Atlas (NYFA) - “Joint effort between the New York Flora Association, the New York Natural Heritage Program, the New York State Museum, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and other partner herbaria with the goal to provide users with a comprehensive searchable database of the vascular and non-vascular plants of New York State.”
OAIster - “Goal is to create a collection of freely available, previously difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources.” A search for garten retrieved abstracts for over 200 records, one of which was Der botanische Garten als Ort für Umweltbildung: gartenpädagogische Konzeption unter besonderer Berücksichtigung formenkundlicher Inhalte by Marina Fischbeck-Eysholdt,
a 408 page thesis in pdf format, in German, on the botanical garden (Botanische Gärten). There is a map showing locations of German botanical gardens on page 2 (10). Try searching for
French: jardin(s), jardinage(s), jardinier(s), fleur(s), fleuriste(s), plante(s) medicinale(s), labyrinthe(s), orangerie(s), plan(s), carte(s), dessin(s)
German: garten(s), landesgeschichte, landschaftsgarten, gartenkunst, schloss, grotten
Italian: giardino, giardini, flora, orto botanico, orti botanici, laberinti, labirinti, labyrinthos, grotte, grotta
Latin: hortus, hortorum...
Plant Kaleidoscope - "Rare & unusual plants" in cultivation in Europe, growing in public or private gardens." Consists of 707 pictures and 349 descriptions of "woody plants like trees, shrubs , conifers, climbers, bamboos and palms."The "people involved" are Rainer Oberle, Ulrich Herzog, Frédéric Tournay, Hubertus Nimsch and Diethard H. Storch.
PlantCare.com - House plant database has over 2,900 listings with care information and photos, searchable by name and by type.
PlantFacts - Searchable database of over 5,500 horticultural fact sheets produced by Tim Rhodus of Ohio State University. Also offers Plant Dictionary, a searchable database of 3,431 high quality plant, insect and disease images.
Plants for A Future Species Database (PFAF) - Contains over 7000 species and has extensive details on edible, medicinal and other uses of plants together with information about their cultivation and habitats.
Plantscope - Dutch image database. You can search by color.
Postcode Plants Database - The goal of this UK database is to encourgage gardeners to grow indigenous plants. Input your postcode and you're shown a list of recommended plants.
Protabase - Database of useful plants of tropical Africa.
SPIRO: Architectural Images Database - UC Berkeley Architecture Slide Library. A search for garden in the Subject or Object Type field retrieved 771 records.
Cotswold Way National Trail - Ramblers' Association 101 mile walking trail from Chipping Campden to Bath. (See the Countryside Agency website for information on other National Trails.)
Hidcote Manor - National Trust garden located near Chipping Campden, Glouscester, England. Created by Lawrence Waterbury Johnson (1871-1958). See The Enigma of Hidcote by Christopher Reed, Horticulture Magazine, August 1986. "If you were to see it from the air," says Paul Nicholls, Hidcote's head gardener, 'the garden would look like a house with the roof off.' The walls are built of yew, beech, box, holly, and hornbeam, sometimes daringly mixed together to create Johnston's famous 'tapestry hedges' ". (Do a satellite search in Google Maps for Hidcote Bartrim.) Hidcote Manor Garden: the hidden truth by Noel Kingsbury, Telegraph, October 8, 2007. Books about Hidcote and Johnston include
Hidcote: the garden and Lawrence Johnston (2007) by Graham S. Pearson and
The Garden at Hidcote (2007) by Fred Whitsey (you can search inside this book at Amazon.com).
Henriette's Herbal Homepage - Henriette Kress's site on culinary and medicinal herbs includes 3290 plant pictures.
Liber Herbarum - Erik Gotfredsen's database is subtitled "the incomplete reference-guide to Herbal medicine" and is based on the first known Danish medicine book, Henrik Harpestreng's Liber Herbarum. The entry for Drosera rotundifolia Linne or Round-leaved Sundew, for example, provides the common name of the plant in 12 languages.
Native American Ethnobotany Database: Foods, Drugs, Dyes, and Fibers of Native North American Peoples - Dan Moerman, Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan. "The current edition of the database is substantially enlarged and including foods, drugs, dyes, fibers and other uses of plants (a total of over 44,000 items). This represents uses by 291 Native American groups of 4,029 species from 243 different plant families."
Richard E. Schultes, 86, Authority on Hallucinogenic Plants, Dies - New York Times obituary (April 13, 2001) of the man known as the founding father of ethnobotany. Richard Evans Schultes was also the subject of an article by E. J. Kahn Jr, in the June 1, 1992 New Yorker titled Profiles: Jungle Botanist (Vol. 68, issue 16, p. 35). Two million acres the Amazon are named after him - the Amazonian tract Sector Schultes.
Bibliothèque Nationale de France: Gallica - French National Library electronic text project. A search (recherche) for jardin* (title) retrieves over 200 images and texts. Volumes of note include:
Biodiversity Heritage Library - Ten major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions have joined to form the Biodiversity Heritage Library Project. ( American Museum of Natural History, Field Museum, Harvard University Botany Libraries, Harvard University, Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Marine Biological Laboratory / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Natural History Museum, New York Botanical Garden, Royal Botanic Gardens, Smithsonian Institution Libraries).
" On 28 October 2009 the library contained: "15,078 titles, 40,248 volumes, 16,303,197 pages." You can browse by title, author, subjects, names, map, and year.
BioLib Online Library of Historic Biological Books - Kurt Stüber, of the Max-Planck-Institut für Züchtungsforschung, has assembled a full-text collection of historic biology books, many "currently out of print and hard to obtain from public libraries or book sellers." There are over 150 titles on botany. Titles include:
Botanicus - "Feely accessible, Web-based encyclopedia of historic botanical literature from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library." You can browse books by authors, titles and subjects which include pictorial works
Culpeper: The Complete Herbal - Complete text of the 17th century herbal, along with The British herbal and family physician by Nicholas Culpeper, (1616-1654). From Bibliomania.
Fuch's Botanical - 516 woodcuts of plants, some colored, from Leonhard Fuch's Primi de stirpivm historia commentariorvm tomi uiuæ imagines, in exiguam angustioremq[ue] forman contractæ, ac quam fieri potest artificiosissime expressæ...Basileæ, 1545. Site created by Richard Siderits, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University.
Garden and Forest: A Journal of Horticulture, Landscape Art, and Forestry (1888-1897) - Digital reproduction by the Library of Congress of ten volumes, comprising 8,400 pages and over 1,000 photographs and other illustrations, of the journal established by Charles Sprague Sargent (1841-1927), the founding director of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. The work is fully searchable and browsable, and each volume has an index. A Boolean search for Llewellyn, Park and Orange, for example, retrieves 13 results, among which is p. 578 of Volume 5, Issue 250. Phis provides some of the history of Llewellyn Park, one of the first planned developments or "residence parks". As early as 1853, Llewellyn S. Haskell purchased some 700 acres on the southeastern slope of Orange Mountain, in Orange, New Jersey. Figure 100, on page 583 shows a drawing of the main entrance to Llewellyn Park. Plantings of Oaks, Chestnuts, Hickories, Maples, Tulip Poplars, and Beeches enriched the park. Eugene A. Baumann & Howard Daniels were the landscape designers.
Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition and History (HEARTH) - "Core electronic collection of books and journals in Home Economics and related disciplines. Published between 1850 and 1950..." (Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University.) Garden-related titles in the collection include Flower Decoration in the House (1907) by Gertrude Jekyll, Principles of Flower Arrangement (1923) by Edward Albert White, The Livable House, its Garden (1917) by Ruth Dean and The Book of Market Gardening (1906) by R. Lewis Castle.
Köhler's Medicinal Plants - Hermann A. Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen was published in Leipzig in 1887 and has nearly 300 finely detailed illustrations (Missouri Botanical Garden)
Making of America Project - "Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction (1850-1877)." The site is searchable and includes a number of gardening-related titles:
Organic Agriculture Information Access - "Electronic collection of historic United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) publications related to organic agriculture. In this collection, there are almost 200 documents published before 1942 (before synthetic chemicals became widely used) that contain state-of-the-art information and data that is still very pertinent for today's agriculture. Access to this data is intended to provide growers with new ideas on crop production without chemicals, as well as help researchers conserve scarce resources by avoiding unintended duplication. This collection is provided by the Alternative Farming Systems Information Center (AFSIC), a part of the National Agricultural Library (NAL), with funding from the USDA National Organic Program and Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. This effort is part of the AFSIC "Organic Roots" project."
The Virago Book of Women Gardeners (1996) - Edited by Deborah Kellaway. With Biographical Notes on pp. 259-271 and Notes on Sources on pp. 247-253. You can "search inside" this book at Amazon.com.
Botanical Garden of Nijmegen - "Extensive Solanaceae collection comprising more than 1,000 accessions with many species of wild origin." Includes many images.
Centre des Monuments Nationaux - The French Ministry of Culture and Communication provides information on French chateaux, monasteries, cathedrals, palaces, and other important monuments. (In French and in English.) The following are recommended for their "parcs et jardins".
Chateau de Courson - Site of the Journees des Plantes, a flower show held twice annually at the chateau of Patrice and Hélène Fustier located 30 miles from Paris.
Dumbarton Oaks - Washington D.C. research facility, an institute of Harvard University, offers a program in Garden and Landscape Studies and an assortment of publications on landscape design (with some online content). The Research Library provides online access to HOLLIS, the Library catalog. An advanced keyword search for "Dumbarton Oaks" retrieves over 6,000 results.
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden - Founded in Coral Gables in 1938 by Robert H. Montgomery (1872-1953) and named in honor of his friend, the plant explorer David Fairchild, it is a "leading center of palm research, horticulture, and conservation". The Library and Archive provides information about the collections. The Virtual Herbarium is a "text and photographic database of the specimens in the Fairchild Tropical Garden Herbarium."
Of particular note is the Guide to Palms which has hundreds of high-quality images, including detailed photographs of the fruit. See, for example, Washingtonia robusta, Gastrococos crispa and Areca aff. multifida.
Fox Run - Clayton, New York. See Human Nature: A Garden Gathers Stones and Moss On a Cliff Over the St. Lawrence by Anne Raver, New York Times, October 4, 2001. "The Dials bought the property and its decaying fishing shack and named it Fox Run, after the narrow footpaths worn along the edge of the cliff by red foxes. By 1990 they had built their first house, a stone cottage, with the help of Richard Nash Gould, a New York architect. Ms. Dial insisted on grand dimensions: a 22-by-60-foot rectangle with a peaked roof and a skylight 28 feet above the floor; 10-foot-high windows, which double as doors, open west to river light and east to the trees. Their main house -- a limestone and stucco building designed along Greek Revival lines by two local architects, Bill and Diana Grater -- was attached to the cottage in 1995, giving them an additional 6,000 square feet. Both parts of the house perch on the cliff with the same happy attention to light, stone and trees."
Hidden Gardens of Paris - By Elaine Sciolino, New York Times, Sunday, June 29, 2008. "Intimate, lightly trafficked and often quirky, the small gardens of Paris can be ideal places to rest and to read. The trick is to find them."
Holden Arboretum - Largest arboretum in the United States is located in Kirtland, Ohio and encompasses over 3,100 acres.
Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam - Founded in 1638, it is "one of the oldest botanic gardens in the world. Today, there are more than 6,000 plants (over 4,000 species) growing in the garden and greenhouses."
J. C. Raulston Arboretum - Nationally acclaimed garden is part of the Department of Horticultural Science at North Carolina State University. The web site provides descriptions and photographs of the Arboretum's plant introductions. Also available at the site is an archive of Arboretum Newsletters and descriptions of the major collections.
National Trust - Index of protected houses, gardens, coast and countryside in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The Directory is searchable by theme (gardens) and provides information about such gardens as:
Quarryhill Botanical Garden - Glen Ellen, California. "Quarryhill today is recognized as a conservation and aesthetic treasure. Twenty of the site's 61 acres are home to one of the largest collections of scientifically documented wild-source Asian plants in North America. Its repository includes rare and endangered plants, and it distributes its plant material to other botanical gardens and research universities in North America." (Newsletter of the Garden Conservancy, Fall 2007, Vol. 18, No. 3, p. 6). Their Database of Asian Plants in Cultivation is hosted by the California Academy of Sciences and "provides an inventory of living specimens, held at various institutions throughout North America and Europe, which have originated primarily from collecting expeditions to eastern Asia."
Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site - Cornish, New Hampshire. "Consists of the home, gardens, and studios of Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907), one of America's greatest sculptors."
Stonecrop Gardens - Cold Spring, New York. "Open to visitors by appointment only from April 1 thru October 31 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and the first and third Saturdays of every month." Photographs of the garden are available in the archives of Garden Week. Stonecrop Gardens were created by Frank Cabot, founder and chairman of the Garden Conservancy, who also created Les Quatre Vents in La Malbaie, Charlevoix, Quebec. (You can read about the latter in Greater Perfection: the Story of the Gardens at Les Quatre Vents.)
Trustees of Reservations - Organization formed to "preserve, for public use and enjoyment, landscapes of exceptional scenic, historic, and ecological value in Massachusetts and to protect special places across the state." With database describing 80 reservations across Massachusetts.
Clemson University Home and Garden Information Center - Information and more than 400 factsheets on landscape, garden and indoor plants; insects, plant diseases and other problems; and food safety and preservation.
Cyberlandscape: Patrimoine Vert Europeen - "On y parle de jardins, de paysage, de patrimoine et d'environnement." Offers links to a number of European landscape gardening resources (in French).
WebGarden - This Ohio State University site is one of the best gardening resources on the Internet. Highlights include PlantFacts, a searchable database of over 5,500 horticultural fact sheets and a database of Images of ornamental plants and pests.
Bibliophile of Booknoll Farm - by E. A. Proulx, Horticulture, February, 1983 (pp. 34-45). Profile of Elisabeth Woodburn, a rare horticultural book dealer.
Century of Gardens - From Atlantic Monthly's Flashbacks, "thematic collections of articles from the Atlantic's past that have gained new relevance today."
Darwin Correspondence Project - University of Cambridge. Although you don't have access to the actual letters, you have access to a very detailed index (with cross references) to the correspondence. James Bateman (1812–1897), for example, "cultivated tropical plants, especially orchids."
Fletcher Steele Landscape Architect - Includes biography and photos of Ancrum House, the gardens he designed for Angelica Gerry, Lake Delaware, Delhi, NY. and Naumkeag, Mabel Choate's gardens in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry.)
Gardens of the Mughal Empire - This Smithsonian Productions web site recreates and studies the gardens and architecture of the Islamic dynasty that ruled between 1526-1858 in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kasmir and Northern India. "The project was initiated in Pakistan by the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and became a fully collaborative joint venture with the Department of Archaeology of the Government of Pakistan and the School of Architecture at the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore."
Historic Bartram's Gardens - America's oldest living botanical garden., located in Philadelphia. Offers a good collection of links to related resources.
History of Horticulture Index - Course outline distributed to students at Ohio State University by Professor Freeman S. Howlett for his 1968 course The History and Literature of Horticulture: From Earliest Times to the Present.
Lady Jean Skipwith's List of Flowers - Scanned image of a flower list made by Lady Jean Skipwith of Prestwould, Mecklenburg County. Her garden was one of the most extensive gardens in eighteenth-century Virginia and is well documented in the family papers at Swem Library of the College of William and Mary.
Papers of Sir Joseph Banks - Sir Joseph Banks was a botanist who accompanied Captain James Cook on his first voyage of exploration into the Pacific region between 1768 and 1771. Digitized collection consists of "10,000 manuscript pages and include correspondence, principally letters received, but also reports, invoices and accounts, journals, plus a small quantity of maps, charts and watercolours." (State Library of New South Wales)
Peter Kalm (1715-1779)- Swedish naturalist who visited the American Colonies from 1748-1751.
A Naturalist in the Colonies - Book review of The Travels of Peter Kalm: Finnish-Swedish Naturalist Through Colonial North America, 1748-1751 by Paula Ivaska Robbins, Purple Mountain Press, 2007 by Stuart Ferguson, Wall Street Journal, November 17, 2008. “We learn from her [Robbins] - and not from Kalm himself, who died before he could recount his trip in full - that in western New York state Kalm stayed with Sir William Johnson, a man who lived in a fortified manor house with his Mohawk wife, entertained hundred of Iroquois at a time and presided over his German tenant farmers and Indian allies like a feudal chieftain. It was Johnson who gave advice to Kalm about the naturalist's two trips to Canada, provided guides through the forest and arranged the party of Indians who paddled Kalm across Lake Ontario to the French outpost at Fort Niagara.”
National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections - Searchable via RLIN AMC File Advanced Search Form, an Easy Search Form (word list) and an Easy Search Form (left-anchored phrase). A search for Ellen Biddle Shipman, for example retrieves records for collections at Cornell and Radcliffe.
Project Linnaeus - Collaborative project of the Swedish Linnaean Society, the Royal Swedish Academy of Science and the Linnean Society of London to edit a corpus of 7000 letters to and from Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778), the father of modern botanical classification.
Seeds of Change Garden - Smithsonian Institution site “examines the exchange of plants and seeds between the Old and New Worlds following Columbus's discovery of America in 1492.”
Note: Search for any of the following: herbals, herbularius, botanical prints, florilegia (compendia of engravings of flowers and plants), hortus conclusus (Latin phrase meaning an enclosed garden), hortus deliciarum (garden of pleasure) or do a Google image search for the following names: Giovanni Battista Falda, Basil Besler (1561-1629), Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770), Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717), Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (Phytanthoza Iconographia, 1742), Launcelot 'Capability' Brown, Peter Schoeffer, Pierre Joseph Redouté, Jean Louis Prevost, James Bateman (1811-1897), George Brookshaw (1751-1823), Thomas Moore, Robert John Thornton (1768-1837, Charles Plumier, Walter Hood Fitch (1817-1892), Joseph Nugent Fitch (1840-1927), Elizabeth Blackwell (A Curious Herbal), Samuel Curtis, Clara Maria Pope (d. 1838), Ferdinand and Francis Bauer, Francois André Michaux, and Etienne Pierre Ventenat (1757-1808). Botanical Illustration: A Selected Bibliography has been compiled by Julene Sodt of the Western Libraries, Western Washington University.
American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936 - Approximately 4,500 photographs from the University of Chicago Library documenting natural environments, ecologies, and plant communities in the United States at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. (American Memory Project, Library of Congress.)
American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920 - Library of Congress collection of "approximately 2,800 lantern slides represents an historical view of American buildings and landscapes built during the period 1850-1920. It represents the work of Harvard faculty, such as Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., Bremer W. Pond, and James Sturgis Pray, as well as that of prominent landscape architects throughout the country. The collection offers views of cities, specific buildings, parks, estates and gardens, including a complete history of Boston's Park System. In addition to photographs, views of locations around the country include plans, maps, and models. Hundreds of private estates from all over the United States are represented in the collection through contemporary views of their houses and gardens (including features such as formal gardens, terraces, and arbors)."
An Array of Botanical Images - Photographs by James L. Reveal, Department of Plant Biology, University of Maryland.
Atlas Van der Hagen and Atlas Beudeker - Dutch atlases of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are searchable by source, date, name, geography and keyword. Joint project of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek and the British Library. You can also view the maps per atlas (browse). The Atlas van der Hagen consists of four volumes with 447 images. Of particular interest in Volume II are the series of copper engravings depicting views of the pleasure gardens of Enghien near Brussels (85 through 99), "commissioned by Nicolaas Visscher II (1649-1702) and engraved by Romeyn de Hooghe (1645-1708)." (See Number 93, Le labyrinthe avec la magnifique fontaine d' Amphitriae.)
Botanical and Cultural Images of Eastern Asia, 1907-1927 - Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. This collection "represents the work of intrepid plant explorers who traveled to exotic lands in the early years of the twentieth century and returned to the Arboretum with not only seeds, live plants, and dried herbarium specimens, but also with remarkable images of plants, people, and landscapes" and consists of over 4,500 botanical and cultural images by:
Japanese Tea House at the Missouri Botanical Garden
Gardener's house at Stan Hywet Hall
Toddsbury Outbuildigs & Gardens
Oxon Hill Manor Grounds, Oxon Hill, Maryland
CalPhotos: Plants - Berkeley Digital Library Project has over 21,000 searchable and browsable images of plants.
Charles F. Gillette Photograph Collection - Library of Virginia collection consists of 862 images, all part of the collection of Charles F. Gillette Papers at the Library of Virginia. Gillette (1886-1969) is "nationally recognized as one of the premier landscape architects associated with the restoration and re-creation of historic gardens in the upper South and especially Virginia.". The images "primarily depict Virginia houses, estates, gardens, and other landscape design projects. There are also many personal photographs of Gillette, Ellen Cogswell Gillette, and the various homes in which they lived."
Common Plants of the Verde Valley & Sedona -Doug Von Gausig's site's purpose is to assist with the visual identification of the most common native and "feral" or escapee plants of the Verde Valley of central Arizona.
Flora Danica - The Royal Library, Copenhagen (Det Kongelige Bibliotek). "Danish botanical work Flora Danica, begun in 1761, consists of 3,240 engravings in folio of all the wild plants that grew in the kingdom of Denmark." (Also available in English.)
You can browse the images by number and search by name or plate number. Look for:
Flora of China - English-language revision of the Flora Republicae Popularis Sinicae (FRPS) in which "all the vascular plants of China will be covered, including brief descriptions, identification keys, essential synonymy, phenology, provincial distribution in China, brief statements on extra-Chinese distribution, and remarks regarding the circumscription of problematic taxa." With a page with links to images.
English Heritage - "British Government's official adviser in England on all matters concerning heritage conservation." ViewFinder is a browsable picture library with over 18,000 images, many by Henry W. Taunt, "an important photographer who worked out of premises in Oxford between 1860-1922. His main interests were Oxfordshire and surrounding counties, the River Thames, customs and local history." Garden photographs include Hidcote House, Hidcote Bartrim, Ebrington, Gloucestershire (Ref. no: CC73/00559), Ankerwyke House, Picnic House, Wraysbury, Berkshire (Ref. no: HT02820), Streatley House, Gardens, Streatley, Berkshire (Ref. no: HT13710), Hatherop Castle, Gardens, Hatherop, Gloucestershire (Ref. no: CC72/01932) and Abingdon Abbey, Sham Abbey, Abingdon, Oxfordshire (Ref. no: CC97/02085).
Linnean herbarium - Over 2,000 images from the Department of Phanerogamic Botany at the Swedish Museum of Natural History.
Lotus in Japan - Images and descriptions of several lotus varieties grown in the Kemigawa Ryokuchi Experimental Station, also known as the Experimental Station for Landscape Plants, which is a division of the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Tokyo. There are also photographs of camellias. See, for example, camellias with striped petals.
Medical Plant Images - Michael Moore, Southwest School of Botanical Medicine, Bisbee, Arizona. Over 1600 images and maps. With Index.
National Diet Library - The Rare Books department of Japan's national library, located in Tokyo, has an online exhibition which features outstanding works from its collection. Unfortunately its only available in Japanese, but it is nonetheless well worth exploring just for the sheer quality of the high resolution images. There are 100 items in the online exhibition of books from the collection, which includes Japanese items and a number of non-Japanese works from around the world. (See Maps 1, 2, 3 and 4.) Included in the exhibition are botanical prints by Redoute (dianthus), Miss Rosenberg (lily), William Hooker, Merian and Oskamp, offered in high or low resolution. There are also two collections of botanical prints, both European and Japanese.
National Gallery of Art - Has digitized many of the paintings in the collection, which you can find using the search option (selecting images only). You can also search by accession number. Examples include:
Stein's Virtual Herbarium - Kenneth J. Stein provides photographs of representative specimens from the Appalachians which are widely-distributed east of the Mississippi River.
Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia - "Incorporates 679 excerpts from original sound recordings and 1,256 photographs from the American Folklife Center's Coal River Folklife Project (1992-99) documenting traditional uses of the mountains in Southern West Virginia's Big Coal River Valley." A wonderful resource for finding photographs and interviews about folkways, herbs, trees and wildflowers.
Triptych A Digital Initiative of Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore College Libraries - "Draws from four repositories — Bryn Mawr College Library Special Collections; the Swarthmore College Peace Collection, which focuses on social reform and issues of peace; and the Haverford College Library Special Collections, which shares with the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College the stewardship of the records of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends." You can search within The Castle Collection of Natural History Illustrations, an image database of over 1300 images. Included are of the plates from Peter Simon Pallas's Flora Rossica (1784) and all the illustrations from Edward Lear's Illustrations of the family psittacidae, or parrots (1832). Use the Advanced Search option to limit by collection . A search within the collection for flowers, for example, retrieves over 200 results.
Tropicos Image Index - W3Tropicos provides access to "Missouri Botanical Garden's VAST nomenclatural database and associated authority files."
Tulip Book of P. Cos - Pictures of tulips from the 17th century; Wageningen Agricultural University Library, The Netherlands
Vascular Plant Image Gallery - Texas A & M University site arranged alphabetically by family and provides images and brief descriptions.
Vilar Virtual Landscape Gallery - Database of over 1700 images of European parks and gardens. (In French and English) Search by country, period, type of garden, or keyword.
What is an Herb? - Online exhibition at the Health Sciences Library at the University of Virginia features the herbals of Dioscorides, the Aztecs, Gerard, and Culpeper.
André Le Nôtre (1613-1700) - Designed the gardens at Meudon, Saint-Germain en-Laye, Sceaux, Chantilly, Les Tuileries, Saint-Cloud, Versailles. (In French).
Lord & Schryver - Established by Elizabeth Lord and Edith Schryver (both students of the Lowthorpe School in Groton) in Salem in 1929.
Agricola - National Agricultural Library Article Citation Database
Archives Hub: Collection of the Month [March 2005]: Botany - "Collections of botanists and botanical societies of the past three hundred years. These include the papers of herbalists, biochemists, geneticists, and even missionaries."
Atlanta History Center - "the library houses 6,500 volumes documenting 350 years of landscape design, horticulture, botany, and garden history. The holdings include rare botanical books, texts by early botanists and naturalists, and nineteenth-century agrarian journals, as well as twentieth-century photographs, landscape drawings, and seed catalogs."
Lawrence Banks - Interviewed by Louise Brodie in November 2006 [C1029/39].
Mavis Batey
Alan Bloom (1906 - )
Christopher Brickell
John Brookes (1933 - ) - garden designer
Ron Butler,
Jim Buttress,
Beth Chatto (1923) (the interview summary includes an interesting description of her visit to the United States in 1983. She mentions Frank Cabot, Fred McGourty, Larry Pordue, Linc Foster, and RC Raulston);
Julia Clements,
Peggy Cole,
Harry Dodson,
Gilly Drummond (1939-);
Andrew Dunn (1916 - ) and Nick Dunn (1952 - ), tree nursery owners, interviewed by Louise Brodie in September 2006;
Valerie Finnis;
Fergus Garrett,
Alan Gear (1949 - ), organic horticulturalist;
Douglas Henderson,
Penelope Hobhouse,
John Humphris,
Ann Lambert,
Roy Lancaster, (1937-), gardener, writer, broadcaster, interviewed by Louise Brodie in 2005;
Joy Larkcom,
Jim Link (1934 - , forester, gardener;
Christopher Lloyd,
Richard Mabey,
Anna Pavord,
Geoff Pick,
Richard Carew Pole, interviewed by Louise Brodie on 5 October 2006;
Ghillean T. Prance,
Don Prior (1929-),
Miriam Rothschild,
Lady Marjorie Gascoyne-Cecil Salisbury,
Pamela Schwerdt,
Tim Smit and Sue Minter,
David Standing,
Geoffrey Stokes,
Graham Stuart Thomas (1909-);
Medwyn Williams,
Jan Woudstra, and
Tom Wright.
Playback, the bulletin of the British Library Sound Archive, is published three times a year and includes previous issues back to 1998.
Elisabeth C. Miller Horticulture Library - Center for Urban Horticulture, University of Washington, Seattle. Among the best horticultural reference libraries in the country. Offers:
Information Resources: Children and Nature - 57 page annotated list of fiction and non-fiction books for children. It also includes websites and resources for parents and teachers published August 4, 2008.
LuEsther T. Mertz Library - New York Botanical Garden Library is one of the world's largest and most active botanical/horticultural libraries. Offers access to online catalog.
Smithsonian Contributions to Botany - "This series reports on the scientific, technical, and historical research conducted by Smithsonian staff and their professional colleagues, as well as on the collections of the various Smithsonian museums." Titles include:
FindArticles.com - Free online article-search service allows you to search for (and read) articles published over the last 1 to 2 years in more than 300 reputable magazines and journals. You can view publications by subject or by name. For example, here you'll find From bouquets to baskets. (English gardens) by Mark Laird, from the June 2000 issue of the Magazine Antiques.
The Garden - Archives provides access to selected articles from this Royal Horticultural Society publication.
PubMed - Provides access to over 11 million citations in MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, and other related databases, with links to participating online journals. (A search for echinacea retrieves 95 citations, a search for medicine, herbal retrieves over 1400.)
Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes - Published By: Routledge (ISSN: 1460-1176). Scholarly work on international garden history. Formerly the Journal of Garden History
Traditional Gardening - Michael Weishan's online journal of practical information on creating and restoring classic gardens has selected articles from current and past issues.
AJR/NewsLink - Most newspapers have gardening columns. The American Journalism Review site lists newspapers by state. Other newspaper directories include the Internet Public Library's links to Online Newspapers and Editor & Publisher'sOnline Media Directory. For an extensive list of directories see Digital Librarian's collection of links to Newspaper Directories.
Tour of the White House Flower Shop - "White House floral designer, Nancy Clarke, spoke about the daily operations of the White house florist and special activity surrounding the state visit of Queen Elizabeth II. She talked about procurement, assembly and placement of the floral displays." December 1, 2008 [10:00]
Cultivated Gardener - "Nationally-syndicated, hour-long, weekly radio program that provides high-quality entertainment and practical information to the nation's hobby and professional gardeners."
New York Times - Free archives from 1987. See
Times to Stop Charging for Parts of Its Web Site by Richard Perez-Pena, New York Times, September 18, 2007. "In addition to opening the entire site to all readers, The Times will also make available its archives from 1987 to the present without charge, as well as those from 1851 to 1922, which are in the public domain. There will be charges for some material from the period 1923 to 1986, and some will be free." There is a Home & Garden section. Search the archives for articles by Anne Raver,
Cass Peterson,
Ken Druse,
Joan Lee Faust,
Linda Yang
AJR/NewsLink - Most newspapers have gardening columns. The American Journalism Review site lists newspapers by state. Other newspaper directories include the Internet Public Library's links to Online Newspapers and Editor & Publisher'sOnline Media Directory. For an extensive list of directories see Digital Librarian's collection of links to Newspaper Directories.
All Things Acer - " Collaborative effort to bring together an offering of Japanese Maples for cultivation in the Southern United States."
Angelgrove Tree Seed Company - Online seed catalog features over 135 varieties of tree seeds for Japanese trees, ornamental, shade & native trees, bonsai and flowering trees and includes garden seeds for a few selected shrub roses and flowering vines.
Arrowhead Alpines - Fowlerville, Michigan firm specializes in rare perennials, alpine and rock plants, wildflowers and dwarf conifers. Has a photo gallery with 600 images.
Calle-Plant - Belgian nursery was founded in 1895 and has stayed in the family and is currently run by the four Calle Brothers (Luc, Jan, Marc and Wim). It specializes in fruit trees and ornamental plants. "Quatre frères, quatre établissements, quatre spécialités."
Camellia Forest Nursery - Chapel Hill, North Carolina firm "specializes in Camellias and other plants that are uncommon in cultivation and especially suited for landscape use."
Canyon Creek Nursery - Oroville, California. "Mail order source for uncommon perennials since 1985." (530-533-2166)
Cyndi's Catalog of Garden Catalogs - Cyndi Johnson provides addresses and links (when available) for over 1900 gardening catalogs, organized alphabetically and by specialty.
Fedco Seeds - Waterville Maine business, organized as a cooperative, has four divisions trees and seeds, bulbs and Moose Tubers and Organic Growers Supply (OGS).
Flecke Saaten Handel - Wunstorf, Germany. "Privately owned, German corporation specializing in the production and wholesale of open-pollinated flower seeds."
ForestFarm Plant Nursery - Williams, Oregon. Has a Photo Gallery with over 5,000 images.(503-846-7269)
Fuchsia en Kuipplantenkwekerij Gommer - Dutch nursery offers 3000 species of Fuchsia as well as Brugmansia, Passionflowers, Pelargonium and other patio plants.Site offers over 700 photographs, taken by nursery owner Hendrik Jan Gommer.
Garden Watchdog - Directory of over 2,000 mail-order gardening companies.
Greer Gardens - Mail order nursery located in Eugene, Oregon, specializes in the "rare and unusual", particularly azaleas, bonsai, conifers, ferns, magnolias and rhododendrons. (800-548-0111)
Hedgehog Hill Farm - Small farm in Sumner, Maine, has gardens open to the public, workshops, free lectures, a shop, and a nursery.
Heronswood Nursery - Dan Hinkley's nursery in Kingston,Washington is one of the best mail-order sources for rare plants. See Where Eden Could Order Its Plants by Anne Raver, New York Times, October 6, 2005.
K. Sahin, Zaden B.V. - "Relatively young, dynamic flower seed company which was established in 1982 by Kees and Elisabeth Sahin." Some of their interesting products include:
Kelways - "Founded in 1851 making us one of the oldest nursery businesses in the world. Based in the middle of the picturesque Somerset Levels we are known worldwide as the Uk's leading grower of Irises and Peonies."
Kuipplanten - Dutch supplier of container and patio plants.
Kurt Bluemel, Inc - Nursery grower and supplier of ornamental grasses, bamboo, perennials, ferns, sedges, rushes and other exotic nursery plant materials.
Lake Country Nursery - Perry, Ohio. Wholesale nursery grower of trees, shrubs, evergreens, ornamental grasses, perennials, vines and ground covers.
Master Garden Products - Bellevue, Washington, firm manufactures and sells cedar wood garden products (using recycled cedar wood as much as
possible). Their Hinoki Cedar Series have bug repellent characteristics and a lemon scent aroma.
Prarie Nursery - "Wildflowers & native grasses, native plants and seeds for ecological gardening."
Primrose Path - Nursery in southwestern Pennsylvania (Scottdale) specializes in hybrids and selections in Heuchera, Heucherella, and Tiarella. (Note: Personal experience has found this nursery to be an unreliable source of plants. Despite an e-mail commitment from the owner to provide our garden club with multiple tiarella plants, our check, held for four weeks, was returned, saying the plants were unavailable and without any apology or suggestions on how to find replacements.)
Proven Winners - "International marketing cooperative comprised of some of the world's best propagators."
Der Rosenmeister - Heirloom roses. 190 Seven Mile Drive, Ithaca (607-273-8610). Leon Ginenthal "grows roses from more than a dozen countries, including Poland, Russia, Finland, Sweden and Dorea. You can fall in love with them - they won't die on you. He's got drought-tolerant hardy-to Zone 5 roses bred by the late Dr. Robert Bayse of Texas, many of which are thornless, as well as Grifith Buck, Canadian Explorer, and rugosa roses, all of which have made a name for themselves in colder climates." (From "On the Road: Ithaca, New York" by Kathy Purdy, Horticulture Magazine, Special Northeastern Supplement, October/November, 2006. The article also mentions Wilcox General Store, Bedlam Gardens, the Plantsmen Nursery, Cornell Plantations, Ithaca Children's Garden, and Bakers' Acres.) Among the old roses sold are Charles de Mills, Koenigin von Danemark, La Belle Sultane, Madame Hardy, Maidens Blush, Stanwell Perpetual (exceptionally fragrant), Tuscany Superb, and William Lobb.
Roslyn Nursery - Dix Hills, NY, nursery specializing in rare and exotic varieties of rhododendrons, azaleas, camellias, shrubs, trees, perennials, groundcovers and other ornamental plants (631-643-9347). Closed in 2006?
Seedman.com - "Family owned and operated seed business serving home gardeners, University botanical departments and research facilities worldwide" in Gautier, MS
Seeds of Distinction - Source for unusual, and hard to find seeds from the gardens of the world.
Select Seeds Antique Flowers - Union, Ct. business specializes in heirloom perennials found in cottage and period gardens, chosen for fragrance and cuttings.
American Iris Society - Site includes list of 100 most popular irises, pictures of award winning irises, and iris classification and growing information.
Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation - "Research division of Carnegie Mellon University. We maintain collections of books, plant images, manuscripts, portraits and data files for scientific study."
The Linnaean Correspondence - "Prepared under the aegis of the Swedish Linnaean Society, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Uppsala University and its library, and the Linnean Society of London, with the collaboration of the Centre international d’étude du XVIIIe siècle."
New England Wild Flower Society - Framingham, Massachusetts. Provides access to the following issues of New England Wild Flower: Conservation Notes of the New England Wild Flower Society:
Royal Swedish Academy - Awards the Crafoord Prize. The 2003 prize was awarded to Carl R. Woese, University of Illinois “for his discovery of a third domain of life . See also Crafoord Foundation.
Floridata - Photographic encyclopedia of landscape plants
Guide to Standard Floras of the World - "An annotatated, geographically arranged systematic bibliography of the principal floras, enumerations, checklists and chorological atlases of different areas" by David G. Frodin, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Pritzel, G. A. Thesaurus literaturae botanicae omnium gentium. Lipsiae 1847-1851. Excellent, standard bibliography on botany with over 10,000 entries, still current today (Besterman, 943).
Time Life Plant Encyclopedia - Searchable database contains almost 3,000 species selected for general use in North American horticultural practice, including herbs, bulbs, house plants, wildflowers and roses.
Bulb.com - Netherlands Flower Bulb Information Center (NFIC) provides news, photographs, video and technical information on flower bulbs and garden trends
Collection de camellias éléves à Bollwiller, dédiée à Mr. le Professeur A.P. DeCandoll, par Charles Baumann, et par Nap. Baumann. Imprint Bollwiller, 1829-[1835]. Alternate titles: Camellia de Bollwiller; Bollweilerer Camellien-Sammlung by Carl Baumann and Napoléon Baumann, Bollweiller, 1828-35; Collection de camellias élevés à Bollwiller, 4 vol., 1829-1835) 1828, 1831 Lithographisches Institut Engelmann Comp., Mühlhausen 1828-1835. Contains 49 illustrations of camellias from their nursery at Bollweiller. Appeared in German and French editions. See some of the plates at Rare Prints Gallery
Common Plants of the Verde Valley & Sedona -Doug Von Gausig's site's purpose is to assist with the visual identification of the most common native and "feral" or escapee plants of the Verde Valley of central Arizona.
Cornell Composting - Provides access to a variety of composting educational materials and programs developed at Cornell University.
Cornell University Poisonous Plants Informational Database - "Plant images, pictures of affected animals and presentations concerning the botany, chemistry, toxicology, diagnosis and prevention of poisoning of animals by plants and other natural flora (fungi, etc.)."
Database of Asian Plants in Cultivation - Database of the Quarryhill Botanical Garden hosted by the California Academy of Sciences "provides an inventory of living specimens, held at various institutions throughout North America and Europe, which have originated primarily from collecting expeditions to eastern Asia."
Gardens of Tranquility - Hesham Al-Jehani's description of two Islamic gardens at the 2001 Chelsea Flower Show: Carpet Garden created by Michael Miller (now reconstructed for HRH Prince of Wales at Highgrove House) and The Garden of Tranquility commissioned by His Highness Shaikh Zayed bin Sultan Al-Nahyan. See also Royal Horticultural Society description and plan.
Gesneriad Reference Web - Ron Myhr's site contains informative articles, as well as almost 1,000 high resolution photos of gesneriads, the family which includes African violets, gloxinias, Nematanthus ("goldfish plants"), Aeschynanthus ("lipstick plants") and other attractive tropical plants.
Native Plants Journal - "Our goal is to provide technical and practical information on the growing and planting of North American (Canada, US, and Mexico) native plants for restoration, conservation, reforestation, landscaping, roadsides, and so on. Our first issue was printed in January 2000." The publication is searchable.
Orchid Mall - Bob and Lynn Wellenstein, of AnTec Laboratory, Candor, New York, have created this collection of resources on tropical slipper orchids. Other useful orchid resources:
Plant Variety Protection Office - Division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture whose mission is to administer the Plant Variety Protection Act (PVPA), "by issuing Certificates of Protection in a timely manner. The Act provides legal intellectual property rights protection to developers of new varieties of plants which are sexually reproduced (by seed) or tuber-propagated."
Rare Plants of San Diego County - Craig H. Reiser, April 1994. Arranged alphabetically by scientific name. Hosted by the San Diego Chapter of the Sierra Club.
Rose Page - Bill Chandler's site includes a glossary, a list of suppliers, links to other resources, and information of old, modern and English roses
Secret Garden - Albert G. Richards, a retired University of Michigan professor, has been creating floral radiographs for over 40 years.
SolGenes Webserver - a U.S.D.A.-funded Genome Database for the Solanaceae, containing information about potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, and related species.
Tom Volk's Fungi - Volk is a Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. Especially interesting are the Fungus of the Month pages.
Victora - This site is devoted to water lilies and aquatic plants. Of special interest is the section on Victoria, the giant water platter. There is an index of articles. See also Joseph Paxton's Water Lily, a 30 page electronic document, from Bourgeois and Aristocratic Cultural Encounters in Garden Art, 1550-1850 by Michael Conan, Volume 23 in the Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture, c2002. Dumbarton Oaks Electronic Texts
Henry Doubleday Research Association (HDRA) - Europe’s largest organic organisation, specialising in organic gardening & food in the UK, and small scale agriculture in developing countries. Provides information on its Heritage Seed Library, and has assembled a collection of links to other organic gardening resources around the world.
Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation - Division of the National Park Serivce, its mission is to provide "technical assistance in cultural landscape research, planning, stewardship, and education."
Dewit Hand Tools - Holland-based forging company makes high quality carbon steel gardening tools including the Cape Cod weeder (product number 3097) and the Dutch handhoe. See also Dewit Gereedschappenfabriek.
Goldsmith Birdhouses - Karl Goldsmith, of Rochester, NY, specializes in creative birdhouses. (585-615-6529)
Landscape Forms - Kalamazoo, Michigan, firm sells outdoor furniture and accessories. Hyde Park, designed by Brian Kane in 1995, won the APEX Commendation Award.
Lee Valley Tools - Sells carbon steel garden forks made in England.
Garden Gate - Karen Fletcher offers "carefully-selected and well-organized collection of links to informative and interesting horticulture sites around the world."
Japanese Maples: The Complete Guide to Selection and Cultivation - By J. D. Vertrees and Peter Gregory, 4th edition, 2010. You can search within this book at Amazon.com. "...one of the preeminent texts in the world for the propagation, identification and cultivation of this exceptionally useful plant." Joel M. Lerner, Washington Post, December 8, 2001.
Musser Forests - "Musser Forests, based in Indiana County, Pa., has been growing quality tree seedlings for over 75 years."
Silvics of North America - Russell M. Burns and Barbara H. Honkala, United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Agriculture Handbook 654, 1990. "The silvical characteristics of about 200 forest tree species and varieties are described. Most are native to the 50 United States and Puerto Rico, but a few are introduced and naturalized. Information on habitat, life history, and genetics is given for 15 genera, 63 species, and 20 varieties of conifers and for 58 genera, 128 species, and 6 varieties of hardwoods. These represent most of the commercially important trees of the United States and Canada and some of those from Mexico and the Caribbean Islands, making this a reference for virtually all of North America. A special feature of this edition is the inclusion of 19 tropical and subtropical species. These additions are native and introduced trees of the southern border of the United States from Florida to Texas and California, and also from Hawaii and Puerto Rico."
Vegetable Varieties for Gardeners - "Detailed descriptions of more than 4,000 vegetable varieties and how other gardeners have rated many of them." Cornell Cooperative Extension.
What's In A Latin Name: The Legacy of Linnaeus - "Harvard naturalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author EO Wilson talks about Linnaeus and the continuing effort to classify life on earth. From a talk given at the New York Botanical Garden on November 8th [2007]."
WGBH Forum Network - "Audio and video streaming Website dedicated to curating and serving live and on-demand lectures given by some of the world's foremost scholars, authors, artists, scientists, policy makers and community leaders." Has archived lectures on Gardens and Landscape Design including: