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Gardening

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

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