Re: plant provenance
- To: s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
- Subject: Re: [SG] plant provenance
- From: D* B* T*
- Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 17:15:55 -0600
- Importance: Normal
I read the "Plant Hunters." Fascinating and awesome--my god, what those
guys did in their fever to discover plants....The only disappointing thing
is it doesn't deal with more modern plant hunters/discoveries, but still
worth reading.
Diann
-----Original Message-----
From: PRIMROSES [s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU]On Behalf Of
Lynn Barbee
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 7:54 AM
To: shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
Subject: [SG] plant provenance
I have recently been reading a book called "The Gardener's Atlas", subtitled
"The Origins, Discovery, and Cultivation of the World's Most Popular Garden
Plants." It has plants organized by family, such as the lily family, the
rose family, etc. There is also a book by Toby Musgrave, et al, called
"Plant Hunters, Two Hundred Years of Adventure and Discovery Around the
World." That looks like it has more history in it, more of the stories of
how the plants were discovered. I'm going to read that next. Have any of you
read these books? It's amazing what some of the discoverers went through to
collect plant specimens so we could have them in our gardens. Lynn
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