plant science and plant products

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The Society of American Florists Records and Book Collection consists of both organizational records and bound volumes. The Society of American Florists (SAF) Records cover the period from 1894 to 1993, and contain proceedings, meeting minutes, correspondence, memoranda, publications, photographs, and scrapbooks. The SAF Book Collection consists of over 200 volumes, including monographs and bound serials from 1793 to 1990.

Content Description The Southmeadow Fruit Gardens Records contain materials from a fruit nursery run by Robert A. Nitschke. These materials include records, catalogs, order forms, tasting evaluation forms, and a large collection of color slides and photographs of a variety of fruits. Journal articles, association materials, and correspondence with other growers regarding grafting, plant samples, and the availability and quality of plants are also included. The predominant focus is on apples, but there is also...

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The Strawberry Photographs Collection contains black and white negatives, prints, and glass plate images of strawberry plants and activities related to strawberry cultivation.

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The Sugar Industry Pamphlet Collection contains 152 items, including pamphlets, books, and reprints, concerning the development of the sugar industry. The materials are written in Dutch, English, French, German, Polish, Spanish, and Swedish. Included are several rare publications from the 18th and 19th centuries.

Content Description The Tayloe Family Journal is a handwritten account book maintained by Edward Thornton Tayloe of the Powhatan plantation in King George County, Virginia, between 1834 and 1849. The journal has entries related to barns, beef, cattle, clover, corn, cultivators, dairying, ditching, drought, fallowing, fencing, grapes, harvesting, hogs, manure, marl, oats, pruning, and sheep, as well as some detailed maps, crop production and slave inventories, and an index. There is also legal background...

Content Description The Thomas E. Devine Papers contain materials from Devine’s career in research on the genetics and breeding of legumes (birdsfoot trefoil, alfalfa, and soybeans). Papers include information on conferences attended, advisory functions, professional organizations, and research-related correspondence. Many of Devine's 90 publications are included in the papers. There are also detailed field plans and evaluations from various research projects. The papers also include yearly performance records...

Content Description The Thomas Jefferson Correspondence consists of eleven letters to Jefferson, from Jefferson, and about Jefferson (1786-1819) and a set of four letters (1915) between W. K. Bixby and Secretary of Agriculture D. F. Houston, regarding Jefferson letters that Bixby had found and sent to Houston. Houston later placed the Jefferson letters in the Department of Agriculture Library. The Jefferson letters contain information on agricultural topics, such as nursery stock purchased by Jefferson, a...

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The Tung Oil Collection consists of one manuscript "Study on Tung" by W. L. Chia (1950) and several publications and photographs.

Content Description The U.S. National Fungus Collections Topical Files contain historical records assembled largely by John A. Stevenson during his 33 years of service as director of the U.S. National Fungus Collections. These materials reflect the history of American mycology and plant pathology and the relationship to the development of the U.S. National Fungus Collections in the 19th and 20th centuries. These files include correspondence; biographical information; unpublished manuscripts; information on...

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The USDA Agricultural Research Service Biological Control Center Records contain materials relating to biological control research conducted within the branches and divisions of the Agricultural Research Service (ARS). Materials include correspondence, unpublished reports, research reports, grant applications, publications, shipping records, databases, photographs, and videotapes. Materials from closed international laboratories are also included.