agricultural & horticultural world of bladensburg in the early 19th century

Agricultural & Horticultural World of Bladensburg in the Early 19th

Century

John Peter ThompsonBeyond the Battle – Bladensburg 1814

October 11, 2014

Europe’s Search for New Plants

A Near Thing – Gardens in Paradise

Boston Jamestown

Tobacco & Slavery

http://americangardenhistory.blogspot.com/2013/07/american-slave-gardeners-raising-food.html

http://www.earlyamericancrime.com/convict-transportation/jeremiah-swifthttp://accokeekfoundation.org/tobaccos-tools/tobacco-barn-1/

Birth of American Horticulture

Oenothera grandiflora Found in Alabama

by William Bartram in 1775

William PrinceNurserymanNew York

Birth of American Horticulture

Charles Willson Peale

Colonial Gardens; European Reflections

http://ncmuseumofhistory.org/exhibits/healthandhealing/elements/media/topic-media/HerbGarden.jpg

Bartrams, Nurseries & Gardens

http://casacara.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/phila310.jpg?w=500&h=375

PrinceNew York1771

Francis Motter – George-town 1799

Thomas Main – Little Falls - 1803

Henri-Joseph Stier (1743–1821)

FEDERAL INTELLIGENCER, AND BALTIMORE DAILY GAZETTE.; Date: 12-25-1795

FEDERAL INTELLIGENCER, AND BALTIMORE DAILY GAZETTE.; Date: 12-25-1795

William Booth - Baltimore

William Booth - Baltimore

William Booth - Baltimore

William Booth – Baltimore - 1810

William Booth - Baltimore

Federal Gazette & BALTIMORE Daily ADVERTISER.; Date: 04-12-1796

Ott – Georgetown - 1814

Peirce – Linnaean Hills Nursery 1824

Peirce – Linnaean Hills Nursery 1824

Peirce – Linaean Hills Nursery 1824

Joshua Peirce Linnaean Hill 1857

Joshua Peirce – $1.00 = ~ $18.10

Dr. John H. Bayne (1804-1870)

Andrew Jackson Downing (1815-1852)

http://www.livingplaces.com/people/li/Joseph_Walker_Cottage_2.jpg

John Saul – Washington DC- 1852

John Saul – Washington DC- 1852

John Saul – Washington DC- 1852

Department of Agriculture established in 1862 by Abraham Lincoln.

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