Report to Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, 1786.

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Report to Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, 1786.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155903755

Report titled "Observations on botany as applicable to rural economics" regarding improvements in the economy of raising cattle.

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University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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Marshall, Humphry, 1722-1801

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Humphry Marshall was a self-educated Quaker botanist, born and raised in Chester County, Pa. With the encouragement and assistance of his cousin, John Bartram, and other scientific mentors in the U.S. and Britain, Marshall became an accomplished "practical botanist" and by the mid-1760's had established a profitable business collecting and identifying plants and selling them to plant collectors throughout the U.S. and Europe. The botanical garden he established in Chester County was...