American Plants for American Gardens

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American Plantsfor American Gardens This page intentionally left blank American Plants for American Gardens EDITH A. ROBERTS and ELSA REHMANN Foreword by Darrel G. Morrison The University of Georgia Press Athens & London Published in 1996 by the University of Georgia Press Athens, Georgia 30602 www.ugapress.org© 1929 by the Macmillan Company Foreword to this edition ©1996 by the University of Georgia Press All rights reserved Printed digitally in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data LCCN Permalink: http://lccn.loc.gov/unk80013302 Roberts, Edith A. & Rehmann, Elsa. American plants for American gardens / Edith A. Roberts and Elsa Rehmann; foreword by Darrel G. Morrison. p. cm. Originally published: New York: The Macmillan Company, 1929. Includes Index. ISBN 0-8203-1851-5 (alk. paper) 1. Native plant gardening—East (U.S.) 2. Native plants for cultivation—East (U.S.) 3. Landscape gardening—East (U.S.) 4. Landscape plants—East (U.S.) I. Rehmann, Elsa. II. Title SB439.24.E3R635 1996 635.9'5174—dc20 96-11362 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data available ISBN for this electronic edition: 978-0-8203-4056-2 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS In 1924, the Conservation Committeeof The Garden Club of America published with the Bulletin a booklet byEdith A. Roberts and Margaret F. Shaw on The Ecology of the Plants Native to Dutchess County, New York. This booklet with its lists of plants arranged according to ecological associations suggested the idea for a series of articles which appeared in House Beautiful under the title of Plant Ecology and are now presented in this book. This page intentionally left blank ...