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Cambridge Urban Forestry

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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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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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
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Naturalists' Writings

Naturalists describe the environments of the past.

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New England Naturalists: A Bio-Bibliography