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Founding Gardeners

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by Andrea Wulf


  Hallet, Stephen

  Hamilton, Alexander, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2

  Assumption Plan of, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2

  British trade promoted by, 4.1, 4.2

  and Constitution ratification

  death of

  and election of 1800

  as mercantilist, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2

  “Report on Manufactures” of

  as treasury secretary, 4.1, 4.2

  and Washington’s Farewell Address, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2

  Hamilton, William, 2.1, 3.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1

  Hammersmith, England

  Hampden, John, 2.1, 2.2

  Hampton Court

  harmony of mankind and nature, prl.1, prl.1, 9.1

  Harvard University, botanic garden at

  Haswell, Anthony

  Hedysarum coronarium (sulla)

  Heely, Joseph

  Hemings, Sally, 6.1, 9.1

  Hessian fly, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 9.1

  hickory trees, 9.1, 9.2

  Hoban, James

  holly

  Homer

  honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos), 1.1, 4.1

  honeysuckle

  honeysuckle (Lonicera canadensis; American fly honeysuckle)

  honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens), 1.1, 3.1, 8.1

  hornbeam

  Horticultural Society (New York)

  hospitality, eighteenth-century

  Houdon, Jean-Antoine

  House of Representatives, U.S., 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2

  see also Congress, U.S.; Senate, U.S.

  Hudson, N.Y.

  Hudson River, 7.1, 7.2

  Hudson River School

  Hudson River valley, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

  hyacinth, 8.1, 8.2

  Illinois, 9.1, 9.2

  Indianapolis, Ind.

  Indian bean tree (Catalpa bignonioides; southern catalpa), 2.1, 3.1, 5.1, 8.1

  Indian Queen

  Ingenhousz, Jan, 9.1, 9.2

  iris

  irrigation

  Irving, Washington

  Italy, 3.1, 5.1, 6.1

  James Madison Landmark Forest

  jasmine (Jasminum officinale), 2.1, 9.1

  Jasminum officinale (jasmine), 2.1, 9.1

  Jay, John, 2.1, 3.1, 5.1

  Jay Treaty, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 6.1

  Jefferson, Lucy

  Jefferson, Martha (daughter), see Randolph, Martha Jefferson

  Jefferson, Martha Wales, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3

  Jefferson, Mary, 4.1, 7.1, 8.1

  Jefferson, Thomas, prl.1, prl.2, prl.3, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4

  Adams’s friendship with, 2.1, 4.1, 8.1, 8.2

  Adams’s rift with, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1

  as agricultural innovator, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 9.1, 9.2

  agriculture promoted by, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 9.1

  as Anglophobe, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1

  boredom as anathema to

  botany as interest of, 4.1, 6.1, 9.1, 9.2

  in British trade negotiations, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7

  capital site issue and

  Capitol design and

  captial site issue and

  Cobham’s influence on, 2.1, 2.2

  crop rotation adopted by, 5.1, 5.2

  death of

  in dispute over “degenerate” American environment, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 7.1, 7.2

  in election of 1796, 5.1, 5.2

  in election of 1800

  in English garden tours, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 3.1, 5.1, 8.1, 8.2

  as Enlightenment thinker, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1

  as enthusiastic about transportation revolution

  gardens as fascination of, 2.1, 6.1

  grandchildren and, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3

  Hamilton’s economic policy opposed by, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6

  “Heart vs. Head” letter of

  Inaugural Address of (1801)

  Jay Treaty opposed by

  Lewis and Clark expedition and, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3

  library of

  Louisiana Purchase and, 7.1, 8.1

  Madison’s friendship with, 4.1, 4.2

  maple sugar production promoted by, 4.1, 4.2

  merchants disliked by, 6.1, 9.1

  meticulous recordkeeping by, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4

  Monticello home of, see Monticello

  New England botanical excursion of, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

  personal debt of, 8.1, 9.1

  as plantation owner, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 8.1, 9.1

  Poplar Forest estate of, 6.1, 8.1

  as president, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 9.1

  as reluctant politician, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 8.1, 9.1

  republican style of, 6.1, 6.2

  reserved nature of

  in resignation as secretary of state

  in retirement at Monticello, 8.1, 8.2

  in Rights of Man controversy, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

  as secretary of state

  seed collecting and sharing by, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 9.2

  as slave owner, 2.1, 2.2, 5.1, 5.2, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2

  slavery issue and

  tobacco trade and

  in tour of France and Italy

  as vice president

  and Washington, D.C. design, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3

  Washington attacked by

  weather diary of

  westward expansion and, 7.1, 7.2

  Whig influence on

  at White House, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1

  and White House design, 6.1, 6.2

  wide-ranging scientific interests of

  Jeffersonia

  Jeffersonia diphylla (twinleaf)

  Jenifer, Daniel of St. Thomas, 1.1, 3.1

  Jones, Inigo

  judiciary branch, 3.1, 3.2

  Juniperus horizontalis (creeping juniper)

  Juniperus virginiana (red cedar), 1.1, 1.2, 2.1

  Kalmia latifolia (mountain laurel), 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 5.1, 8.1

  Kennedy, Lewis

  Kent, Nathaniel

  Kent, William

  Kentucky, 4.1, 6.1, 9.1

  Kentucky coffee tree (Gymnocladus dioicus)

  Kew Gardens, 2.1, 9.1

  kidney bean

  Knox, Henry

  kohlrabi

  lady’s slipper orchid

  Lafayette, marquis de, 1.1, 4.1, 9.1

  land ownership, as basis of freedom

  Langley, Batty, 1.1, 1.2

  Larix laricinia (tamarack)

  larkspur

  Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 8.1, 8.2

  Leasowes, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 5.1, 8.1

  Lee, Eliza Collins

  Lee, James

  legislative branch, 3.1, 3.2

  leguminous plants

  L’Enfant, Charles Pierre, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4

  lesser celandine

  Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania (Dickinson)

  Letters from an American Farmer (Crèvecoeur)

  Letters on the Beauties of Hagley, Envil and the Leasowes (Heely)

  Lewis, Meriwether, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 9.1

  death of

  scientific training of

  Lewis and Clark expedition, 7.1, 7.2

  Jefferson’s instructions for

  specimens collected by, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1

  Lewisia

  Liberty Tree

  Library of Congress

  licorice-root (Ligusticum verticillatum)

  Ligusticum verticillatum (licorice-root)

  lilac, 1.1, 8.1

  lilac (Syringa persica)

  lilac (Syringa vulgaris)

  Linnaeus, Carl, 3.1, 3.2, 7.1

  Linum lewisii (prairie flax), 7.1, 7.2

  Liquidamber styraciflua (sweetgum), 2.1, 3.1

  Liriodendron tulipifera (tulip poplar; tulip tree), 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 6.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3


  live oak (Quercus virginiana), 1.1, 3.1, 3.2

  Livingston, Robert

  Lobelia cardinalis (cardinal flower)

  Locke, John, 2.1, 2.2

  Lombardy poplar (Populus nigra; L. “Italica”), 6.1, 6.2, 7.1

  London Public Advertiser

  Lonicera canadensis (“honeysuckle of the garden”; American fly honeysuckle)

  Lonicera sempervirens (trumpet honeysuckle), 1.1, 3.1, 8.1

  Louisiana

  Louisiana Purchase, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1

  Louisville, Ky.

  Lyttelton, George

  Maclura pomifera (Osage orange), 7.1, 7.2, 9.1

  Madison, Dolley, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5

  as hostess, 9.1, 9.2

  Madison, James, prl.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5

  as agricultural innovator, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4

  agriculture as interest of, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 9.1

  as Anglophobe

  and capital site issue, 6.1, 6.2

  at Constitutional Convention, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 4.1, 9.1

  and Constitutional ratification

  death of

  as driving force behind Constitutional Convention

  as enthusiastic about transportation revolution

  environmentalism of, prl.1, 9.1

  Hamilton’s economic policy opposed by, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 6.1

  Jay Treaty opposed by, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3

  Jefferson’s friendship with, 4.1, 4.2

  manure as interest of, 5.1, 9.1

  merchants disliked by

  meticulous recordkeeping by

  Montpelier home of, see Montpelier

  New England botanical excursion of, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

  as plantation owner, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 9.1

  as president, 6.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2

  as proponent of strong central government

  in retirement at Montpelier, 9.1, 9.2

  as secretary of state, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1

  seed sharing by

  and 1796 presidential election, 5.1, 5.2

  as slave owner, 5.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4

  slavery issue and, 9.1, 9.2

  weather diary of

  Magellan, Ferdinand

  Magnolia grandiflora (southern magnolia), 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 5.1

  Magnolia tripetala (umbrella magnolia), 1.1, 8.1

  Malta, 3.1, 6.1

  Malthus, Thomas, 9.1, 9.2

  Malus angustifolia (crab apple)

  Malus coronaria (crab apple), 1.1, 1.2, 8.1

  Malus sylvestris (crab apple)

  Man and Nature (Marsh)

  Mandans, 7.1, 7.2

  “Mandan tobacco” (Nicotiana quadrivolus), 7.1, 7.2

  manure, 5.1, 9.1

  Adams’s interest in, 5.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1

  Madison’s interest in, 5.1, 9.1

  Washington’s interest in, 1.1, 3.1, 5.1

  maple, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 4.1

  mapleleaf viburnum (Viburnum acerifolium)

  Marsh, George Perkins

  Marshall, Humphry, 3.1, 3.2, 9.1

  Martin, Alexander, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3

  Maryland

  in navigation rights dispute with Virginia

  Mason, George, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4

  Massachusetts, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1

  Massachusetts constitution

  Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture, 3.1, 5.1

  mastodon, 3.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1

  Mazzei, Philip

  McMahon, Bernard, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4

  Megalonyx,

  Melia azedarach (chinaberry), 8.1, 9.1

  Memphis, Tenn.

  mercantilism, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3

  Mertensia paniculata (northern or tall bluebell)

  Michaux, André, 7.1, 7.2

  Miller, Philip, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 8.1

  Milton, John

  Mimulus lewisii

  Mississippi River, 7.1, 9.1

  Mississippi Valley, 7.1, 7.2

  Missouri River, 7.1, 7.2

  Great Falls of, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1

  Missouri River Breaks

  mock orange (Philadelphus coronarius)

  model cottage movement, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4

  moldboards, 5.1, 9.1

  Monroe, James, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4

  Montalto

  Monticello, prl.1, prl.2, prl.3, 2.1, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, app.1, 9.1

  balance between useful and ornamental plantings at, 2.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1

  as embodiment of Jefferson’s ideals, 8.1, 8.2

  experimentation at, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1

  as expression of Jefferson’s social status

  fields at, 8.1, 8.2

  flowerbeds at, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5

  forest at, 8.1, 8.2

  greenhouse at

  Grove at, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2

  Jefferson’s fanciful schemes for, 2.1, 5.1, 8.1

  lack of vegetable staples at

  lawn at, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3

  Mary and Martha’s reports on

  Mulberry Row at

  native species at

  North Road approach to, 8.1, 9.1

  orchard at, 8.1, 9.1

  as ornamental farm, 8.1, 9.1

  profusion of vegetable species planted at

  as refuge from politics, 4.1, 5.1, 8.1

  remodelled house at, 8.1, 9.1

  slaves at, 2.1, 2.2, 5.1, 5.2, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2

  vegetable terrace at, prl.1, prl.3, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3

  vineyards at, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1

  “worthies” gallery at

  Montpelier, prl.1, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3

  classical temple at, 9.1, 9.2

  detached kitchen at, 9.1, 9.2

  enlargement of house at

  forest at, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3

  ha-ha at

  horseshoe-shaped garden at, 9.1, 9.2

  lawn at, 9.1, 9.2

  ornamental landscaping favored over utility at, 9.1, 9.2

  remodelled grounds at

  slaves and slave quarters at, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5

  visitors to, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4

  “worthies” gallery at

  moose, 3.1, 9.1

  Morella pensylvanica (northern bayberry)

  Morocco, 2.1, 2.2

  Morris, Robert, 3.1, 3.2

  mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia), 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 5.1, 8.1

  Mount Vernon, prl.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 9.1

  approach to

  Botanical Garden at

  bowling green at, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 5.1

  as business enterprise

  as celebration of American plants, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1

  deer park at

  as embodiment of Washington’s vision of America, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1

  enclosed gardens at, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1

  as expression of Washington’s social status

  ha-ha at

  kitchen garden at

  necessaries (outside toilets) at

  non-native species at, 1.1, 1.2

  old vineyard at

  rennovations to house at, 1.1, 3.1

  Serpentine Walk at, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 5.1

  “shrubberies” at, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 2.1

  sixteen-sided barn at

  slaves at, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 9.1

  soil replenishment experiments at

  tenant farmers at

  tree and shrub plantings at, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 5.1

  visitors to, 1.1, 9.1

  West Gate at

  “wilderness” at

  Mount Vernon Conference, 1.1, 3.1

  Muir, John

  mulberry

  Munroe, Thomas

  Napoleon I, Emperor of France

  Narcissus jonquilla

  nasturtium<
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  National Gazette

  National Intelligencer

  national parks

  Native Americans, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2

  Natural Bridge (Virginia), 7.1, 7.2

  nature

  balance of

  harmony of mankind and, prl.1, prl.3, 9.1

  as political metaphor, prl.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1

  as refuge from political world, 4.1, 4.2

  U.S. national identity as shaped by, prl.1, prl.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.1, 9.1

  as wilderness, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.1, 9.1

  Nelumbo lutea (American lotus)

  New England

  New Hampshire, 3.1, 3.2

  New Jersey, 3.1, 3.2

  New Orleans, La., 7.1, 7.2, 9.1, 9.2

  New Principles of Gardening (Langley)

  Newton, Isaac, 2.1, 2.2

  New York, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1

  New York, Battle of

  New York, N.Y.

  Federal Hall in

  as temporary U.S. capital, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 6.2

  War of Independence in

  New York Advertiser

  New York Daily Commercial Advertiser

  Niagara Falls, 4.1, 7.1

  Nicotiana quadrivolus (Mandan tobacco), 7.1, 7.2

  Nile

  nitrogen

  nitrogen cycle

  North American Review

  North Carolina, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3

  northern bayberry (Morella pensylvanica)

  “Notes on Ancient and Modern Confederacies” (Madison)

  Notes on the State of Virginia (Jefferson), 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 9.1, 9.2

  Nyssa sylvatica (black gum; black tupelo), 1.1, 2.1

  oak, 9.1, 9.2

  oat

  Observations on Modern Gardening (Whately), 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 5.1, 8.1, 9.1

  Ohio, 9.1, 9.2

  Ohio valley, 1.1, 5.1

  Oliver, Andrew

  olive tree, 3.1, 4.1

  ornamental farms (fermes ornées), 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 5.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1

  Osage orange (Maclura pomifera), 7.1, 7.2, 9.1

  Osterley House

  Pacific Ocean, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4

  Paine, Thomas, vii, 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 7.1

  Painshill, 2.1, 9.1

  Palladio, Andrea, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3

  Panic of 1819

  Panicum maximum (guinea grass)

  panther

  Papaver rhoeas (red field poppy)

  paper birch (Betula papyrifera)

  Paris, Treaty of (1783), 1.1, 2.1, 5.1

  Parkyns, George Isham

  Parliament, British, American colonies’ representation in, prl.1, prl.2

  party politics, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1

  Passaic River, 4.1, 6.1

  Paterson, N.J.

  Paulding, James

  Peacefield, prl.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 8.1, 9.1

  flower garden at, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4

  kitchen garden at, 2.1, 5.1

  orchard at, 5.1, 5.2

  peach tree, 1.1, 5.1, 8.1

  Peale, Charles Willson, 7.1, 7.2

  Peale, Rembrandt

 

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