All posts tagged "horticulture"
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13.9KNew England PlacesSix Historic Gardens
Historic gardens have a special appeal to New Englanders if only because of our harsh winters and long dreary springs. Though they...
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19.1K1MassachusettsThe China Trader Who Built the Lyman Estate
The Lyman Estate in Waltham, Mass., commemorates one of the greatest China traders of his age, Theodore Lyman. Few other memorials, written...
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22.5K6Arts and LeisureBeatrix Farrand Breaks the (Green) Glass Ceiling
Famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted in 1893 dismissed 21-year-old Beatrix Farrand as a dilettante gardener, but six years later she had...
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10.7K5Business and LaborThe Concord Grape – ‘The Great Want of this Country…’
The man who invented the Concord Grape started out life in 1806 in Boston, but poor health aggravated by city life prompted...
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9.0K5Arts and LeisureH.H. Hunnewell, Railroad Baron and Garden Nut
H.H. Hunnewell was a gardening nut who financed railroads and contributed so much to West Needham, Mass., that the town voted to...
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5.2K1Business and LaborFlashback Photo: Nick Grillo and his Thornless Roses
The Thornless Rose was an age-old dream of floriculturists, one that Nick Grillo achieved even as he realized the American Dream. Nick...
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