Introduction
Planting the Seeds
Native Agriculture and Plant Use
Canadian Flora
Pioneer Gardening
19th Century Seed Catalogues
Cultivating the Garden
The Cultivators
Reaping the Harvest
Bibliography
Photos by Beth Powning
Other Gardening Sites
Acknowledgements |
Planting the Seeds
Canadian Flora
| Maria Morris worked with Nova Scotian botanist Titus Smith in the 1830s to produce botanical illustrations, such as this milkweed, of the wild flowers of the province. |
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Morris, Maria.
Wild Flowers of Nova Scotia.
Halifax: Belcher, 1840, plate VI. |
| Wild Flax |
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Plants of Manitoba.
Belfast; New York: Marcus Ward, 1800s, No. 31. |
| An illustration by Catharine Parr Traill's niece, Agnes Fitzgibbon (later Chamberlin), from a book prepared by the two that has become a Canadian classic. |
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Traill, Catharine Parr and Agnes Fitzgibbon.
Canadian Wild Flowers.
Montreal: John Lovell, 1868. |
| An illustration of wild tobacco (Nicotiana rustica) by E.J. Revell for a more recently published title, in which the authors have paired 70 of the most common Canadian plants and trees with quotes from early travellers and settlers, revealing something of the story of the discovery of Canada's flora and the early reaction to it. |
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Downie, Mary Alice and Mary Hamilton.
"And Some Brought Flowers": Plants in a New World.
Toronto: University of Toronto, 1980, unpaginated. |
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