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| Title | Flowering Trees and Shrubs: Biltmore Nursery, Biltmore, North Carolina |
| Alt. Title | Flowering Trees and Shrubs |
| Identifier |
http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/books/booklets/flowering_trees_ shrubs/flowering_trees_shrubs.htm |
| Creator | Biltmore Nursery, Biltmore, NC Nursery stock -- Catalogs Flowering woody plants Shrubs Landscape gardening |
| Subject Keyword | Asheville, NC ; Biltmore Forest ; Biltmore Estate ; Biltmore Nursery ; gardens ; flowers ; shrubs ; trees ; catalogues ; rhododendron |
| Subject LCSH | Biltmore Estate (Asheville, N.C.) |
| Date original | 1909 |
| Date digital | 2006-10-17 |
| Publisher | Biltmore Nursery, Biltmore, North Carolina, 1909 |
| Contributor |
Biltmore Estate |
| Type | Source type: text ; image |
| Format | [digital] image/jpeg/text ; 63 page catalogue with illustrations ; 10" x 7" |
| Source | D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNCA SB453 .B1 F56 1909 |
| Language | English |
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| Coverage temporal | 1909 |
| Rights | RESTRICTIONS: Please contact Biltmore Estate, Asheville, NC if image is re-purposed for any display, publication or public use. Credits must cite Biltmore Estate and D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville. Full text reprint of this catalog will soon be available through Biltmore Estate, Inc., Asheville, NC. Copyright retained by the authors of certain items in the collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law. |
| Donor | Purchase D. H. Ramsey Library |
| Description | A 63 page catalogue with index and order form that details the various flowering trees and shrubs found on the Biltmore Estate in 1909 and available for sale to the public. The nursery at Biltmore Estate was established in 1889 and was developed to provide the estate with plants for its use. The public interest in the estate plantings resulted in the production of a large catalog of the estates flora and this catalog in 1909. At the time of the publication of this catalog, the estate had nearly three-hundred acres in cultivation with trees and shrubs and the greenhouses and cold-frames another seventy-five thousand square feet of seed beds and plantings. The alphabetical listing of the trees and shrubs describes each species and variant. Interspersed in the catalog are testimonies from happy customers of Biltmore Nursery. |
| Acquisition | n/a |
| Citation | D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804 |
| Processed by | Special Collections staff, 2006 |
| Last update | 2006-10-17 |


