Robin G. Schulze on "prize plants" From: Environmental History | Date: July 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright Environmental History Jul 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

THIS PHOTOGRAPH originally intrigued me because, growing up in the public schools in suburban southern Connecticut in the 19705, I learned absolutely nothing about plants. The only thing I remember growing in biology class was mold in a plastic Petri dish. The various lab sciences I took in college-physics, aerodynamics, astronomy-did nothing to dispel my ignorance of the flora that permeated my daily life. Only in my thirties, when my husband and I bought a home with some land and I became a passionate gardener in central Pennsylvania, did I learn anything about plants. My purchase of a ...

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