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• Botanic garden
  American gardens, reported that “there was not a rare plant in Europe, Asia, Africa, from China and the islands in the South Sea, of which [Hamilton] had any
  63 KB (8,784 words) - 14:42, March 8, 2021
• Monticello
  native to the hot climates of South and Central America, the Mediterranean, Africa, and the Middle East, and seeds that Jefferson acquired through the Lewis
  78 KB (10,171 words) - 00:22, August 25, 2021
• Pleasure ground/Pleasure garden
  furnish; and also with similar curious productions of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Another part contains a great number of fruit trees; especially piccan
  58 KB (7,874 words) - 14:42, March 10, 2021
• Washington Square (Philadelphia, PA)
  hold their dances, dancing after the manner of their several nations in Africa, and speaking and singing in their native dialects.” Due to the important
  20 KB (2,232 words) - 19:57, August 30, 2021
• Robert Morris
  in import and export trade with Europe, the West Indies, the Levant, and Africa. Some of the firm’s profits were made through the slave trade. With his
  16 KB (2,129 words) - 13:37, September 27, 2021
• Manasseh Cutler
  perfection; in short, he assured us there was not a rare plant in Europe, Asia, or Africa, many from China and the islands in the South Seas, none, of which he had
  44 KB (7,185 words) - 20:02, September 8, 2021
• Bartram Botanic Garden and Nursery
  Paris, Petersburgh, Calcutta, and several other parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa. This garden is the regular resort of the learned and scientific gentlemen
  50 KB (7,152 words) - 19:49, September 1, 2021
• James Francis Brown
  Methodology in the Historical Ebb and Flow of Hudson River Society (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2003), 86, view on Zotero. James F. Brown, diary entry, vol
  36 KB (4,482 words) - 20:01, September 8, 2021
• Quarter
  view on Zotero. Grey Gundaker, “Tradition and Innovation in African-American Yards,” African Arts 26 (1993): 60, view on Zotero. For more about the values
  27 KB (3,739 words) - 15:19, August 13, 2021
• Rosedown Plantation
  mythological figures as well as female allegorical personifications of Asia, Africa [Fig. 3], Europe, and America. The seashell-encrusted rockery that Martha
  42 KB (4,682 words) - 17:07, August 26, 2021
• Wye House
  “maintained cultural connections” to their ancestral homelands (Great Britain and Africa respectively). Little is known about the design of the first mansion and
  44 KB (5,305 words) - 21:15, August 30, 2021
• Greenhouse
  perfection; in short, he assured us there was not a rare plant in Europe, Asia, or Africa, many from China and the islands in the South Seas, none, of which he had
  122 KB (17,951 words) - 18:15, August 10, 2021
• The Woodlands
  perfection; in short, he assured us there was not a rare plant in Europe, Asia, or Africa, many from China and the islands in the South Seas, none, of which he had
  110 KB (15,513 words) - 20:48, August 30, 2021
• Hyde Park (on the Hudson River, NY)
  southern United States, Strelitzia (Bird of Paradise, a native of South Africa), Vachellia farnesiana (Needle Bush, indigenous to Mexico and Central America)
  116 KB (17,032 words) - 18:25, August 23, 2021
• Alexander Jackson Davis
  of his residence, overlooking the “private yard” in which his enslaved African American servants lived and worked. Whether by altering the designs of slave
  38 KB (4,757 words) - 20:03, September 8, 2021
• Plantation
  the enslaved. “The Archaeology of Slave Life,” in Before Freedom Came: African-American Life in the Antebellum South, ed. Edward D. C. Campbell Jr. and
  67 KB (9,385 words) - 19:03, February 3, 2021
• Springettsbury
  James Alexander and subsequently cultivated by his successor, the enslaved African American gardener Virgil Warder) that attracted curious crowds to Springettsbury
  35 KB (4,404 words) - 17:33, August 26, 2021
• Montgomery Place
  the head gardener of the estate. He was the child of Janet Montgomery’s African American housekeeper Sarah (Sally) and butler John, both of whom may have
  68 KB (8,891 words) - 18:36, August 24, 2021
• Gray’s Garden
  secretary to search local plant dealers for specimens of Arabian Jasmine, African Heath, and double myrtles “as good as Gray’s.” In 1792 he complained of
  48 KB (6,603 words) - 22:22, August 18, 2021
• William Hamilton
  myrtles &c which I have not. Possibly he may have another plant of the African Heath which Gray got from him & other large d'ble myrtles as good as Gray’s
  82 KB (12,725 words) - 21:28, September 15, 2021

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