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USDA Plant Introduction Station (Miami, Florida) records, 1895-1951, bulk 1908-1919

1895-1951


Informations bibliographiques
D'autres materias
Plant collecting; Archival resources; United states
Langue
anglais
Note
USDA Plant Introduction Station (Miami, Florida) Records. Special Collections, USDA National Agricultural Library.
The U.S. Plant Introduction Garden in Miami, Florida, began in 1898 on six acres of rented land on Brickell Avenue. David G. Fairchild, chief of the USDA's Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction, led an effort to build acclimatizing field stations for imported plant material in different regions of the country. He envisioned the Miami facility as a place to test, develop, and distribute plant material acquired around the world by USDA plant explorers. The original garden soon became crowded, and in 1914 the USDA's Bureau of Plant Industry leased a supplemental parcel of 25 acres in the Buena Vista subdivision of North Miami. The operation quickly outgrew the combined Brickell and Buena Vista sites. On Fairchild's recommendation, the USDA obtained permission from the War Department to use part of the abandoned Chapman Field Military Reservation for the plant introduction garden. By 1926, the facility had been moved to Chapman Field. It was renamed the Subtropical Horticulture Research Station (SHRS) in 1972.
Type
Mixed Material; Monographic; Still Image
Auteur institutionnelle
United States. Bureau of Plant Industry.

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