Published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press
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© 2011 by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin
E-book edition 2013
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Frontmatter photo credits: Page ii, Old World Wisconsin’s James and Rebecca Sanford Farm kitchen garden, Mike Morbeck; page vii, The Ladies’ Floral Cabinet and Pictorial Home Companion 3, 1874; pages viii-ix, planting the garden at the Friedrich and Sophia Koepsell Farm restoration, Mike Morbeck; page x, interpreter using a long-spouted watering-pot at the Wesley and Sophia Benson House garden, Mike Morbeck; page xiv, historical gardeners weeding in the Sanford garden, Terry Molter.
Photographs identified with WHi or WHS are from the Society’s collections; address requests to reproduce these photos to the Visual Materials Archivist at the Wisconsin Historical Society, 816 State Street, Madison, WI 53706.
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Carmichael, Marcia C.
Putting down roots : gardening insights from Wisconsin’s early settlers / Marcia C. Carmichael.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-87020-466-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Gardens—Wisconsin—History. 2. Old World Wisconsin (Museum) I. Title. II. Title: Gardening insights from Wisconsin’s early settlers.
SB451.34.W6C37 2011
635.09775—dc22
2010043324