Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow - New York Botanical Garden

 Nurserymen and the Making of the American Landscape

Planting

an

Empire

Camden Burd

• Introduction

• Chapter 1 - Flour City

• Chapter 2 - Nurserymen

• Chapter 3 - Empire

• Chapter 4 - Flower City

• Chapter 5 - Bugs

• Chapter 6 - Ornament

• Conclusion

Manuscript Structure

Rochester,

New York

"Land is so easily obtained as to be within reach of every industrious man."

"Americans, if they not be already, must become truly a 'nation of fruit growers.'"

1845

1855

1895

Flower

City

San Jose

Scale

1895

1905

1915