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The American Home Nursery Around 1800

This talk was part of the biennial Historic Plant Symposium sponsored by the Thomas Jefferson Center for Historic Plants on August 27, 2004.

 1. The Heart of Jefferson's Horticultural World (4:32)
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 2.
A Precious Place: Protecting and Managing the Monticello Nurseries (3:14)
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 3.
A Test of the Gardener's Art: The Workers and the Plants of the Monticello Nurseries (4:37)
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 4. Fellow Nurserymen: St. George Tucker and John Hartwell Cocke (4:56)
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 5.
George Washington's "Botanic Garden" (3:25)
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 6. The Nurseries of McMahon, Custis, Skipwith, and Faris
(5:09)
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