Floriculture
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works on the commercial growing of flowers and ornamental plants. Works on home flower growing are entered under [Flower gardening.]
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
John E. Reed, Plant Encyclopedic Scrapbooks
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4560
Scope and Contents
This collection includes 153 handmade scrapbooks in which John E. Reed gathered and pasted newspaper and magazine articles, pamphlets, pictures, definitions, and handwritten notes about different plants. These scrapbooks are alphabetized by the botanical/scientific names of each plant, and the collection also includes four index books for reference. It also includes copies of two pages of correspondence between John Reed and William H. Witte with background about the scrapbooks (Box 1).
Dates:
circa 1910s-1950s