Harvard Yard Tree Map
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Harvard Yard Tree MapPrintable with more trees identified
Plants
Plant Identification
- New York City trees : a field guide for the metropolitan area.
Internet Archive Full Text - Field guide to the street trees of New York City, by Leslie Day.
Internet Archive Full Text- Boston and Cambridge share most of NYC's trees
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Wild urban plants of the Northeast : a field guide, by Peter Del Tredici
HOLLIS Record and Online full text
Contemporary Identification Manuals
Florula bostoniensis : a collection of plants of Boston and its environs : with their generic and specific characters, synonyms, descriptions, places of growth, and time of flowering : and occasional remarks, by Jacob Bigelow. Boston : Cummings and Hilliard, 1814 (Cambridge [Mass.] : Hilliard & Metcalf), 268 p.
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HOLLIS Record
- 2d. ed. greatly enl. To which is added a glossary of the botanical terms employed in the work. Boston : Cummings, Hilliard, & Co., 1824, 422 p. HathiTrust Full Text -- HOLLIS Record
- 3rd ed. Boston : Little & Brown, 1840, 468 pages HathiTrust Full Text -- HOLLIS Record
Floras (that is, local lists of plants)
A list of plants growing without cultivation in Malden and Medford, Mass. : with some contributions to a flora of Middlesex County. Malden, Mass. : The Middlesex Institute, 1881, 19 p.
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Internet Archive Full Text
Flora of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, by L.L. Dame and F.S. Collins. Malden : Middlesex Institute, 1888, 19, 3-9, 201 p. : folded map
Map has divisional title: A topographical reference map of Middlesex County. Massachusetts, with key showing the location of villages, hills, ponds, brooks, swamps, etc., compiled from the latest revised maps, by Edward P. Adams, 1885.
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A report on the trees and shrubs growing naturally in the forests of Massachusetts, by George B. Emerson, published agreeably to an order of the Legislature, by the Commissioners on the Zoological and Botanical Survey of the State. Boston : Dutton and Wentworth, state printers, 1846, 547 p., 17 leaves of plates
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A report on the trees and shrubs growing naturally in the forests of Massachusetts. Originally published agreeably to an order of the Legislature, by the Commissioners on the Zoological and Botanical Survey of the State, by George B. Emerson. Boston, Brown, 1894. 2 v.
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A report on the trees and shrubs has extensive information on each species
Harvard Botanical Garden on Linnaean Street
Hammond, C. A. 1987. The botanic garden in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1805-1834. Herbarist, no. 53, pp. 45-73.
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Ingersoll, Ernest. 1886. Harvard’s botanic garden and its botanists. Century Magazine, vol. 32, (n.s. vol. 10), pp. 237-248.
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Gardens
Early American gardens : for meate or medicine, by Ann Leighton. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1986, 441 pages
Reprint. Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1970.
Subjects
Gardening -- New England -- History
Gardens, American -- New England -- History
Herb gardening -- New England -- History
Medicinal plants -- New England -- History
--On 17th century gardens; she also has 18th and 19th century volumes
HOLLIS Records
Naturalists' Writings
Naturalists describe the environments of the past.