This unique narrative about I. N. Glick who started Glick's Seeds at Smoketown, Pa., includes stories of life since the beginning of the century such as raising tomatoes by the acres, family gatherings, copies of ads in a 1905 seed catalog, grandfather clock, cranking the Model T Ford, a trip to Niagara, among other things.
Ann Rhoads and Timothy Block cover all of Pennsylvania's 195 trees, both native and naturalized. Each species is described in a concise, tabular format that includes the characteristics of leaves, branches, bark, flowers, and fruits. The authors discuss flowering and fruiting time, autumn leaf color, and the size of the largest specimen recorded within the state. Rhoads and Block further provide valuable historical, ecological, and economic information on each tree species, including how Pennsylvania's trees were used by Native Americans and early European settlers. At the Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania, Ann Rhoads is Senior Scientist of the Pennsylvania Flora Project, Timothy Block is Director of Botany, and Anna Anisko is Botanical Illustrator.
Farming and gardening: meet the Pennsylvania Germans -- Developing the new Eden -- Landis Valley: unique in America -- The Pennsylvania German farm -- The Pennsylvania German garden -- Heirloom seeds.
"And including appendix A: Dutch and Frisian given names with English equivalents; appendix B: English given names with Dutch and Frisian equivalents; appendix C: truncated/superscripted names; appendix D: names used by both males and females; appendix E: a reprint of an article by Donald Lines Jacobus."
Ancestral roots of certain American colonists who came to America before 1700 : lineages from Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and other historical individuals
