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Lenhardt Library of the Chicago Botanic Garden Digitized Collections: Early Works: Gardening & Bees

The Rare Book Collection of the Lenhardt Library of the Chicago Botanic Garden offers a comprehensive perspective on five centuries of research in botany, botanical art, horticulture, agriculture, gardening, and landscape design.

Early Works: Flower gardening

Illustration: Agostino Mandirola

 

Early Works: Mushroom Culture

Illustration : John Abercrombie, p. 11 

Early Works: Bee Culture

Illustration: Complete bee-master p. 8 & 9 [p. 35 &36]

Early works: Gardens & garden design

Illustration: Heinrich Hesse

Early Works: Fruit Culture

Illustration: Marco Bussato [1593]

Early Works: Gardening Calendars

Early Works: Vegetable Gardening

          

Illustration: Nouveau traite de la culture des jardins potagers [1703]

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