The engineering of plants has a long history on this continent.
Fields, forests, orchards, and prairies are the result of repeated
campaigns by amateurs, tradesmen, and scientists to introduce
desirable plants, both American and foreign, while preventing
growth of alien riff-raff. These horticulturists coaxed plants
along in new environments and, through grafting and hybridizing,
created new varieties. Over the last 250 years, their activities
transformed the American landscape.
"Horticulture" may bring to mind white-glove garden clubs and
genteel lectures about growing better roses. But Philip J. Pauly
wants us to think of horticulturalists as pioneer
"biotechnologists," hacking their plants to create a landscape that
reflects their ambitions and ideals. Those standards have shaped
the look of suburban neighborhoods, city parks, and the "native"
produce available in our supermarkets.
In telling the histories of Concord grapes and Japanese cherry
trees, the problem of the prairie and the war on the Medfly, Pauly
hopes to provide a new understanding of not only how horticulture
shaped the vegetation around us, but how it influenced our
experiences of the native, the naturalized, and the alien--and how
better to manage the landscapes around us.
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