1 15 1 https://www.nal.usda.gov/exhibits/speccoll/files/original/2ac01b3022e17ed09727450d9f9b6e8a.jpg dc10a66ff55a373e53b23a3368653e3c https://www.nal.usda.gov/exhibits/speccoll/files/original/d5e107d8454d8c33e06123d1d0f74f9a.jpg b1d07376cb15ee07157821f59df8eeec Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Series X. Manuscripts Description An account of the resource <h2>Scope and Content Note</h2> <p>This series is made up of several separate collections of agriculture-related materials from the late 18th through the early 20th centuries, gathered by USDA historians from a variety of sources. The creators of these materials were farmers, gardeners, scientists, USDA officials, business people and others, and the materials include diaries, letters, receipts, articles, publications, clippings, scrapbooks, pamphlets, record books, ledgers, broadsides, and certificates. The subject matter covers the daily activities, accounts, and records of farming, horticulture, livestock breeding, and other agricultural enterprises.</p> <p>Collections of note in this series include letters to Humphry Marshall, a botanist and plant dealer who lived near Philadelphia in the late 18th century; approximately 50 years of pocket diaries of Charles Ballard, a Pennsylvania farmer; transcriptions of more than 30 years of diaries of the Loomis family, farmers in Michigan; and articles, booklets, letters and other material relating to Solomon Hoxie, a breeder and promoter of Holstein-Friesian cattle in the United States.</p> <p>Most of the material is in English and of American origin, although there are a few British, French, and Dutch items.</p> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Arbustum Americanum, Title Page and Dedication Description An account of the resource The title page and dedication to Humphry Marshall's Arbustum Americanum: The American Grove, 1785, the first American imprint on native trees and shrubs. Marshall published Arbustum with the assistance of Samuel Vaughan, an English planter from Jamaica who settled in Philadelphia, and was a friend of Benjamin Franklin. The spelling "Arbustrum" is a misprint. "Arbustum" is Latin, meaning a place where trees are planted, a grove, orchard, or plantation; there is no such word in Latin as "arbustrum." Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Humphry Marshall Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived These images are from Hafner Publishing's 1967 facsimile of the 1785 edition of Humphry Marshall's Arbustum Americanum: The American Grove . The publication is part of the National Agricultural Library's Rare Book Collection within Special Collections. Call number: QK481.M3 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1785 (original); 1967 (copy)