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Absalom Donahoo Apple Nursery Records
The Absalom Donahoo Apple Nursery Records contain Donahoo's records of the apple cultivars he was testing for potential commercial production on his property south of Nebraska City, Nebraska.
Charles C. Plitt Collection
The Charles C. Plitt Collection consists of a series of journals resulting from weekly botany field trips, which Plitt referred to as "tramps," ranging in date from about 1898 to 1922. Plitt led these tramps through many areas around Baltimore, such as Loch Raven, Glen Burnie, Towson, Curtis Bay, and Ellicott City. The collection also includes biographical data, correspondence, photographs, and a book.
Edwin Mead Wilcox Manuscript
The Edwin Mead Wilcox Manuscript is a typed manuscript and notes for Wilcox's paper, "Diseases of Vegetable Crops and Ornamentals in the United States," published in 1928.
Grant Thorburn and Sons Invoice Book
The Grant Thorburn and Sons Invoice Book is a 50-page volume containing invoices for flowers, trees, and seeds related to business transactions of the Grant Thorburn and Sons seed company.
Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Card Files
The Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Card Files consist of seven card files related to the Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection housed in the Special Collections of the USDA National Agricultural Library. This inactive card file contains information on plants, nursery locations, and nursery and seed catalog holdings.
Palemon Howard Dorsett Collection on Persimmons
Papers Related to the Translation of "Five Continents" by Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov
Paul R. Miller Collection of George Washington Carver Correspondence
Prince Family Papers
The Prince Family Papers contain correspondence, account books, notebooks, and journals that provide an insight into the difficulties of maintaining a large nursery in the early years of the United States. Much of the material concerns business dealings between members of the Prince family and those transacting business with them. The remaining portion of the material deals with observations on and experiments with plants.
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