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Science 25 April 2008:
Vol. 320. no. 5875, p. 449
DOI: 10.1126/science.1156769
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Books

ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY:
Cultivating a New Nation

Sharon Kingsland

Fruits and Plains
The Horticultural Transformation of America
by Philip J. Pauly
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. 350 pp. $39.95, £25.95, €30. ISBN 9780674026636.
Examining the long history of the engineering of plants in the United States, the author discusses how horticulturalists shaped the landscapes and influenced the activities and experiences of the inhabitants.
The reviewer is at the History of Science and Technology Department, Johns Hopkins University, 3505 North Charles Street, #203, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA. E-mail: sharon{at}jhu.edu

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