Bartram’s Garden | John Bartram & cAmerica’s Botanical History

Bartram’s Garden explores the life, work, and legacy of John Bartram, the colonial-era botanist whose Philadelphia garden became an important center for the study, cultivation, and exchange of North American plants.

More than a garden history, this volume connects botany, exploration, horticulture, and the beginnings of plant collecting in America. It offers a look at the place where specimens were studied, grown, catalogued, and shared long before modern botanical institutions took shape.

For readers drawn to historic gardens, early American natural history, plant exploration, and the people who helped shape the study of botany, this is exactly the kind of volume that belongs in The Athenaeum.

Details

• Historical work centered on Bartram’s Garden in Philadelphia
• Explores the life and botanical legacy of John Bartram
• Focuses on early American horticulture, plant study, and garden history
• Reproduction of a historically significant work
• Ideal for gardeners, natural-history readers, botanical enthusiasts, and collectors of historic horticultural literature