Abies - 5 clippings

Abrus precatoria -3 clippings, Herald Traveller ""Deadly Bean Pins Recalled by Sears,"" Miami Herald ""Poison in Our Plants"" and Newsweek ""Gift of Death""

Acacia - 18 clippings and articles, including 5 reprinted from Firewood Crops (1979)

Acanthus -2 clippings

Acer - 9 clippings

Achillea - 2 clippings

Achras - 7 clippings, mostly on the origins of chewing gum

Aconitum - 5 clippings

Acorn - 2 clippings

Acrocromia - 1 clipping

Actinidia- 11 clippings, photocopies, and guides (duplicate guides for ripening and serving) primarily about the rising popularity of the kiwi fruit

Adansonia - 5 clippings

Aeschynomene - 1 clipping

Aesculus- 9 clippings

Agar-Agar - 6 clippings

Agave -23 clippings and short reports about tequila and pulque, e.g. NY Times ""Tequila: The Straight Story"" and a 1959 Life photo-essay about Soviet First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan trying tequila in Mexico City

Agriculture 1 - 32 clippings and photocopies on many aspects of agriculture, especially American; one letter from E. D. Merrill to Oakes Ames on the subject of the development of agriculture among ""primitive peoples""

Agriculture 2 -41 items, mostly clippings, on the history of agriculture (Scientific American 1927 ""American Farmers of 4000 B.C."" e.g.), American and international agriculture

Agriculture 3 - 50 items, mostly clippings (New York Times, Scientific American, Kiwanis Magazine, Christian Science Monitor, etc.), on the history of agriculture, American and international agriculture

Agrostema - 1 clipping

Ailanthus - 8 items, mostly clippings, about the introduction of Ailanthus to America

Airplane Woods - from ca. 1918-19 about the best woods used for constructing airplanes, e.g. Scientific American ""Defects in Airplane Woods: Judging the Quality of the Timber That Goes into Our Fleet of Fliers""

Akebia - 1 clipping

Albizzia -2 clippings

Alcohol -29 items, mostly clippings on the biology of alcohol; Sept. 1935 Fortune ""Alcohol and Tobacco"" explains the powers of the two and includes an allegorical illustration of the effects of alcohol on the body; also articles on alcohol as fuel

Alder - 4 clippings

Aldrichimica Acta -Volume 17, Number 1, 1984.

Aleurites - 37 items, mostly clippings, primarily about tung oil

Alfalfa - 19 clippings on alfalfa for human and livestock consumption

Algae- 27 items, mostly clippings, on the medicinal and nutritional value of algae, especially spirulina

Alkaloids- 27 clippings, photocopies, and research papers by H. R. Hurov, R. F. A. Altman, Claudio Naranjo on the effects of alkaloids, especially caffeine (one duplicate: ""Persistence of Alkaloids in Plant Tissue"")

Allium -20 clippings about garlic, leeks, shallots, onions; primarily about cooking

Almond - 6 clippings

Alnus - 1 clipping, 1 short publication, and a paper from Firewood Crops (1979)

Alocasia - 1 clipping

Aloe - 19 pamphlets and clippings on the medical, cosmetic, and biological properties of aloe; a 1902 clipping from the West Indian Bulletin

Amaranthus - 1 clipping, 1 pamphlet, and 1 cereal box (""100% Natural Sprouted Cereal with Amaranth"")

Amber - 29 clippings, mostly about the folkloric and scientific properties of amber; several articles about amber in the Baltic states and in the New World (1 duplicate: ""X-Ray Diffraction Study of Some Fossil and Modern Resins"")

Ambrosia - 4 clippings

Amelanchier -4 clippings

Amino Acids - 22 pamphlets and informational handouts (many from Cambridge Natural Foods store)

Amomis - 2 clippings

Anacardium - 7 clippings, 1 brochure ""Indian Cashews,"" one letter, and 1 postcard

Anatherum - 2 clippings

Andropogon - 3 clippings (one from Esso gas: Concursos de Tractorismo Esso) and one brief publication

Anemone - 5 clippings

Annona - 5 clippings

Anthemis -1 clipping

Anthropology - 24 clippings, primarily on the evolution of human civilization (e.g. Scientific American 1926 ""The Antiquity of Man in America: Who Were the First Americans? Whence Came They?"") with an emphasis on early agriculture and the Americas

Antiaris - 2 clippings on its uses as a poison

Antibiotics - 19 clippings and short publications; 1948 article from Science Illustrated with interesting diagram of the history of antibiotic drugs; Boston herald 1964 ""Today’s Wonder Drugs Not So new After All""

Aphrodisiacs - 5 photocopies and clippings; New York Times 1984 “Volunteers Flood Aphrodisiac Study” (one duplicate: ""Love is the Drug"")

Apios - 3 clippings

Apium - 4 clippings

Apocynum - 1 clipping

Apple - 36 clippings; many articles on specific species; New York Times 1979 ""Old-Fashioned Apple Trees Produce Delicious Harvests""

Apricot - 4 clippings

Aquatic Plants- 8 clippings and one American Scientist newsletter

Aquilegia - 1 clipping

Araceae - 2 clippings

Aralia - 5 clippings (1 duplicate The Garden Magazine 1923 ""Launching a New Vegetable""); The Garden Magazine 1916 ""Udo, a Vegetable Novelty""

Araucaria - 7 clippings, one sheet indicating something ""On Exhibition in Case No. 406""

Araujia - 2 clippings

Arbutus - 9 clippings

Archaeology - 24 clippings and one paper, many of which discuss ancient Egypt and mummies; Science 82 3(9) ""An Ancient Harvest on the Nile,"" a paper by Elizabeth A. Coughlin ""The effects of botanical products on rehydrated mummified tissue and on experimentally mummified tissue""

Arctium - 1 clipping

Arctostaphyllos - 6 clippings

Areca - 1 clipping

Arenga - 2 clippings

Argania - 2 clippings including Christian Science Monitor 1930 ""The Hospitable Argan Tree""

Argemone - 1 clipping and 1 photocopy (from Thor Heyerdahl’s Early Man and the Ocean)

Arid Lands - 26 clippings primarily about finding ways to grow crops in arid climates

Arisaema -2 clippings

Aristolochia - 2 clippings

Arrow Poison - 24 items, mostly clippings; 1 bibliography by Richard C. Gill; 1935 letter from Gill to Oakes Ames, with response; clippings about the origins and uses of different types of poisons, primarily in South America (curare), occasionally sensationalistic, e.g. Boston American Supplement 1938 ""Strange Weapons of the Jungle"" and 1941 Boston Herald article about Gill, ""Strange Quest to Learn Secrets of Jungle Magic""

Arrowroot - 4 clippings including an undated advertisement: ""C.I.E. Speed’s Steam Made Gold Medal Arrowroot manufactured from the Maranta arundinacea or Real Arrowroot for Culinary, Medical, Toilet, Laundry and General Use is Incomparably the Best.""

Artemisia - 4 clippings and photocopies including 2 on anti-malarial applications; one article by William A. Emboden (Terra 1983) ""Absinthe, Absintheurs and Absinthism: A Brief History of Wormwood""

Artichoke - 1 menu from SwissAir; 7 clippings, many on the growing popularity of artichokes

Artocarpus - 11 clippings

Arundo - 1 clipping

Asarum -2 clippings

Asclepiadaceae - 14 clippings, e.g. The American Weekly 1942 ""Milkweed as a Farm Treasure,"" also 3 short reports on fragile paper

Ash - 6 clippings

Asimina - 9 clippings and photocopies, including 1 duplicate (Nature 1928 ""A Boys’ Delight: The Fruits of the Papaw Attract Youth"")

Astragalus – 2 clippings

Astrocarum - 1 clipping

Atriplex - 3 clippings

Atropa - 3 clippings

Attalea - 4 clippings

Avocado - 17 items, mostly clippings; several booklets of recipes and articles about growing popularity; Saturday Evening Post 1949 ""The Mysterious Avocado,"" 1981 advertisement with Angie Dickinson holding a slice of avocado

Azadirachta - 6 items, mostly clippings

Bacteria - 26 items, mostly clippings.

Balanites - 1 clipping.

Balata - 8 clippings.

Balsams - 3 items.

Bamboo -14 clippings, Scientific American ""Head Hunters of Burma.""

Banisteriopsis - Clinical Neuropharmacology ""Review: Banisterine and Parkinson’s Disease"" 1991, 2 copies of Maps v.3 no.4 ""The Use of Ayahuasca in Brazil by the Santo Daime Religion.""

Barberry - 2 clippings.

Banana 1 - 38 items, mostly clippings, Profiles ""The Humblest Fruit"", Scientific American ""The Banana and Its Uses"" 1921, The Agricultural News ""Fungus Notes: The Panama Disease of Bananas"" 1912.

Banana 2 - 29 items, The Outlook ""The Green Gold of the Tropics"" 1922, The Boston Herald 1927 ""How to Keep Well: Eating Bananas to Remedy Ailments"".

Banana 3 - Handwritten citations, 41 items, including Nature Magazine ""Plant of Paradoxes"" 1928, a print from 1927 with a detailed labeled drawing of a banana plant, and a preliminary report submitted to the United Fruit Company from the Gest Chinese Research Library at McGill University on the twelve banana species growing in China.

Banana 4 - Profile ""The Humblest Fruit"" 1973, 47 clippings, a brightly colored poster, folded in half, of a Chiquita Banana Song from the United Fruit Company, The Agriculture News ""Useful Facts Concerning the Banana"" 1916, The Agriculture News ""Cultivation of Bananas"" 1902, The Agriculture News 1903 ""Hints on Packing and Shipping Bananas"".

Banana 5 - Chiquita Banana Cookbook, 33 clippings, Bulletin of the Pan American Union ""The Banana and its Relatives"" 1911, Boston Post, Monday June 11, 1934 ""Boy of 3 World’s Banana Champion,"" colorful illustrated pamphlet called ""The Banana Story.""

Bark - 1 clipping.

Barley - 9 clippings, Science 1979 ""Use of Barley in the Egyptian Late Paleolithic"" (photocopy difficult to read on sides).

Banisteriopsis - 22 items, including typed letters, clippings, and articles.

Basketry - Forestry and Irrigation ""The Basket Willow"" 1904, Natural History ""Weavers of Wood"" 1982, 4 clippings, ""Bringing Back the Baskets.""

Beans - 19 items, including recipes, clippings and articles.

Beech - 6 clippings, The Garden Magazine ""The Romance of Our Trees - VII. The Beeches"" 1920.

Beer - 38 items, Newsweek ""The Battle of the Beers"" 1978.

Beet - 32 items, including clippings, articles and photocopies.

Berberis - 2 clippings, including The Garden Magazine ""The Common Barberry"" 1906.

Berita Porim - Jilid V Bil: 1 1984.

Bertholletia - Gardener’s Chronicle ""The Brazil Nut"" 1925, American Forestry ""Uses of the Brazil-Nut Tree"" 1919, 4 clippings.

Betula - 2 clippings, 1 photocopy.

Beverages - 20 items, including Fortune ""Canada Dry"" 1937 (about Canada Dry ginger ale), The Boston Herald ""Heart Ache from Tea and Coffee Discussed Today by Dr. Cutter"" 1937, Field Museum News ""History of Lemonade"" 1935, Pemex Travel Club Bulletin ""What Shall We Drink in Mexico?"" 1941.

Beverages 2 - ""Tibetan Beer and Other Beverages of the Eastern Himalayas"" H. Garrison Wilkes Ph.D. 1969, Boston Traveler ""Mexican Poor Consume Old Aztec Drink"" 1951, 11 clippings.

Bible Plants - The New York Times ""Biblical Botany"" 1983, 12 clippings, ""Facts and Fallacies About Bible Plants"" Harold N. Moldenke, Director, Trailside Museum 195?.

Bidens - The Agriculture News ""Spanish Needle"" 1904.

Biochemistry - 6 clippings, The Scientific Monthly ""Biochemistry and the Problems of Organic Evolution"" 1930.

Biography - 4 photocopies, 2 articles, 14 items.

Biology - 5 items.

Birch - 5 items.

Bixa - The Miami News ""Lipstick Tree Valued"" 1959, handwritten notes, 7 items.

Blighia - 1 clipping.

Boats - 5 clippings, The Conch Shell Vol. 1, No. 4 1963, Natural History 36 1935 ""The Making of a Cayuco,"" The Times (London) 1981 ""Did the Portuguese Get There Before Captain Cook?"", Destinations 1982 ""Kenya: A Thousand Years of Sailing Ships"", Harvard Gazette 1980 ""How Men Went to Sea In Prehistoric Times.""

Bocconia - 1 clipping.

Boehmeria - Boston Evening Transcript 1928 ""China Grass for Dresses.""

Bombacaceae - 1 clipping.

Book Reviews - 60 items, most clippings of book reviews.

Botanic Gardens - 35 items, Smithsonian 1979 ""Greenhouses offer modern shelter for world’s threatened plants"", Smithsonian 1978 ""Botanical Garden's 'Crystal Palace' is reborn in Bronx"", Fairchild Gardens Horticulturalist 1978 ""A Year-round Spring,"" American Horticulturalist 1977 ""A Preview of Huntington Botanical Gardens,"" The Cary Arboretum 1975-76.

Botanical Exploration - 1 item

Botanical Illustration - Florilegium Catalogue No. Three, 6 clippings, Real Academia de la Historia ""Los Pintores de la Expedicion de Alejandro Malaspina.”

Botanists - 30 items, including The Seattle Times 1985 ""Botanist says he's unmasked mystery behind zombies,"" Gainesville Sun 1985 ""'Plant Explorer' recalls life in Amazon"" (About Schultes), Harvard Gazette 1980 ""Oakes Ames: Jottings of a Harvard Botanist"", Harvard Gazette 1980 ""Richard Schultes Becomes First Jeffrey Biology Professor,"" Melrose Evening News 1982 ""Botanist, traveler Dr. Richard Schultes ""He’ll cruise the Amazon"", Omni 4(10) 1982 ""Gardener of Eden"" (About Schultes, biographical information), People 1980 article on Dr. Andrew Weil, a botanical explorer who dedicated his life to medicinal plants, and several obituaries.

Botany - 26 items, including Science 1923 ""What is a Plant?,"" The Scientific Monthly 1928 ""The Chemical Elements Indispensable to Plants,"", Scientific American 1925 ""The Short-lived, Eight-foot Flower of Sumatra,"" Scientific American Monthly 1921 ""Why Flowers Fade: The Process of Withering, As Reduced to Botanical Terms,"" Boston Globe 1927 ""Why Flowers Attract Insects Still a Puzzle.""

Botulism - Scientific American 1928 ""Botulism in 1927.""

Bows - Field Museum News 1935 ""Osage Orange Wood Prized by Indians for Bows.""

Boxwood - 1 clipping.

Brahea - 1 print, illustration, Huntington Calendar 1982 ""Meet the Braheas.""

Brassica - 31 items, including The Boston Globe 1983 ""Important Vegetables,"" American Vegetable Grower 1975 ""Cauliflower - A Chance for Extra Greenhouse Profits.""

Bread - 14 items, including 2 copies of honey wheat bread recipe 1979 Wheat Flours Institute, The Christian Science Monitor ""How bacteria bred in Montana will fortify the bread of Egypt,"" The Boston Globe 1983 ""It’s more than a loaf of French bread,"", The Boston Globe 1981 ""White bread is suspected as a cause of diarrhea.""

Brewing - 8 items, including clippings, recipes, and a typed page of citations.

Brooms - 5 items, including May 1985 ""Shaker broom a tool of hope in Brazil slum"", Boston Sunday Post 1947 ""U.S. Brooms Come from Lone Seed"", The Agriculture News 1903 ""Brooms and Broom Corn"".

Brosimum - Science 1935 ""The Maya Breadnut in Southern Florida"", The Agriculture News 1904 ""Bread-nut"".

Buckwheat - 4 items.

Buttons - 2 clippings, 3 copies of Art in Buttons (1917, 1924, 1925).

CAB News (Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux) - Autumn 1982 No. 15, Autumn 1981 No. 12, Summer 1981 No. 11 (2 copies), No. 10.

Cabbage - 9 items, including The Boston Globe 1983 "A Dutch treat called cole slaw," The Boston Globe 1980 "Looking into cabbage's extended family," The New York Times 1979 "Sauerkraut: It All Began in China," Science News-Letter 1929 "Raddage - or Cabbish? Weird Combination of Characters in Pods of Hybrid Plant."

Cactaceae - 8 items, including Texas Highways 1973 "A Thorny Tale," The Garden Magazine 1922 "Sugars - Plants of the Desert – Spines," The Garden Magazine 1922 "How Plants Endure Heat and Cold."

Cacti - 16 items, including Americas 1984 "Enduring the Desert." The Christian Science Monitor 1981 "Cactus Theft a Prickly Problem," The Boston Herald 1926 "Drug Peyote Used by Indians in Their Religious Ceremonies."

Caesalpina - 1 clipping.

Caffeine - 26 items, including The New York Times 1982 "Bodily Interaction Found to Explain Caffeine Withdrawal Headache,” The United States Daily 1928 "Popularity of Drinks Containing Caffeine Reduces Tea Imports," The Christian Science Monitor 1982 "US Develops a Taste for Caffeine-free Colas," Newsweek 1982 "Is Caffeine Bad for You?"

Cajanus - The Agriculture News 1909 "Pigeon Peas," Firewood Crops 1979 "Cajanus cajan."

Calathea - The Agricultural News 1910 "Tubers of Calathea allouya [sic]."

Calla - Boston Evening News 1926 "Abloom in New England: The Water Arum."

Calonyction - The Agricultural News 1904 "The Moon Flower.”

Calotropis - The Agricultural News 1911 "The Fibre of Calotropis."

Caltha - Nature Magazine illustration of Caltha palustris 1927 issue, The Garden Magazine 1909 "American Substitute for the Primrose."

Calycanthus -The Garden 1918 "Calycanthus occidentalis." Horticulture 1927 "The sweet shrub, a plant for shady places."

Camellia - 9 items, including Boston Post 1937 "Probe into Fake Olive Oil Racket is Started."

Camphor - 11 items, including The Agricultural News 1918 "Decreasing Supply of Camphor," The Agricultural News 1912 "Useful Information Concerning Camphor."

Cananga - The Agricultural News 1907 "Ylang-ylang," The Agricultural News 1908 "Ylang-ylang Cultivation," 2 clippings.

Canavalia - The Agricultural News 1915 "Horse Bean as a Poultry Food," large color poster of hawk.

Cancer - 7 items, including The Bronx 1986 "Garden in Cancer, Hunger Fight," The Washington Post 1986 "Race Against Time: The Search for Medicine in the Amazon Rain Forest," The Salt Lake Tribune 1987 "Cancer Fight Moves to Jungles, Oceans."

Candy - 11 items, including The New York Times 1982 "There’s Some Sweet News for Lovers of Candy Bars."

Cannabis 1 (Up to and including 1920s) - 2 clippings, article entitled "The Drink and Drug Evil in India."

Cannabis 2 (1930s) - 31 clippings, article "Marihuana – Assassin of Youth," article "Marijuana - Amazing Drug!," article "Marijuana: How a Roadside Weed has Become a National Menace" with amusing photographic illustrations, Boston American Weekly 1938 article describing the murder trial of a 20 year old woman who was using marijuana as a defense, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin "Marijuana," Boston Herald 1937 article “Prey on Children with New 'Killer Weed’."

Cannabis 3 (1940s) - 8 clippings, Foto magazine article "Reefer Heaven" with an interesting glossary of popular terms associated with marijuana.

Cannabis 4 (1950s) - 1 clipping.

Cannabis 5 (1960s) - 23 clippings, U.S. News & World Report "Marijuana: What it is - and Isn't,” letter from Jerry Mandel to Dr. Schultes enclosing published material he wrote on marijuana, Life Magazine article "Marijuana," Newsweek article "Marijuana: The Pot Problem," U.S. Turns On Vol. 2, No. 20. 1967.

Cannabis 6 (1970s) - 27 items, including U.S. News & World Report 1972 "A Marijuana Vote with Impact on Race for White House."

Cannabis 7 (1970s) - 31 items, including The New York Times 1978 "Stronger marijuana sold here stirs debate."

Cannabis 8 (1970s) - 29 items, including Newsweek 1970 "Ten facts parents should know about marijuana."

Cannabis 9 (1970s) -13 items, including NY Times Magazine 1978 "Poisonous Fallout from War on Marijuana."

Cannabis 10 (1980s) - 17 items, including Newsweek 1982 "Guns, Grass and Money," The New York Times 1980 "Parents vs. Marijuana."

Cannabis 11 (1980s) - 31 items, including The New York Times 1980 "The Evidence Builds Against Marijuana," The New York Times 1980 "Marijuana Pills for Cancer Cleared."

Cannabis 12 (1980s) - 40 items, including The Boston Globe 1981 "Report Says Heavy Marijuana Smoking Not Harmful to IQ, Other Brain Functions."

Cannabis (extra material) - Folder with clippings, photocopies.

Canning - 1 item

Capparis - 2 items

Capsicum - 17 items

Carica - 23 items, including The Boston Sunday Post 1940 "New Poison Ivy Cure."

Carludovica - 4 items

Carnegiea - 1 item

Carob - 9 items, including The Boston Globe 1981 "Carob: Some Folks Eat It Like Candy."

Carpinnus - 1 item

Carrot - 3 items

Carthamus - 2 items

Carya -6 items, including The New York Times 1938 "Shagbark Hickory is a Useful Tree."

Caryocar - 1 item

Cassava - 37 items, including The Agricultural News 1902 "Cassava Poisoning."

Cassia - 5 items

Castanea - 16 items, including The New York Times 1978 "New Findings Raise Hope for Saving American Chestnut."

Castilla - 1 item

Castanopsis - 1 item

Casuarina - 3 items

Catalpa - 9 clippings, 1 color reproduction (colored pencil?), Arboriculture: A Journal of the Forests, October 1909, No. 4.

Catha - 1 photocopy of article, 7 clippings.

Caulophyllum - 1 clipping.

Cecropia - 1 clipping, “The Trumpet Tree.”

Cedar - 6 clippings, mostly about the demand for cedar to be made into pencils and other items.

Cedrela - 3 clippings, 1 article "How Cigar-box Wood is Secured" from American Forestry 21 (1915).

Cedrus - 4 clippings about the cedars of Lebanon.

Ceiba – 3 clippings, Americas March/April 1984 magazine "The High and Mighty Ceiba.”

Celastrus - 1 article "Bittersweet, Most Decorative of Wild Fruits."

Cellulose - 2 photocopies, press release on Zinc tablet 1980, 7 clippings.

Celluloid Substitute - 2 clippings.

Celtis - 2 clippings, 1 article from The Boston Globe "The Trees of New England: Hackberry at the Arnold Arboretum."

Centaurea - 1 clipping Boston Evening Globe 1926 "Abloom in New England: Bachelor's Button."

Cephalanthus - 1 clipping, 1 typed page with citations.

Cercis - 2 clippings.

Cereals - Pamphlet on CIMMYT (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center), pamphlet of Sonne's Greenlife Cereal Grasses, 13 clippings.

Chaenomeles - 4 clippings.

Chamaecyparis - 1 clipping The Boston Globe 1927 "The Trees of New England: White Cedar."

Chamaedaphne - 1 clipping of The Boston Globe 1929 "Abloom in the Arboretum: Leatherleaf.”

Chamaerops - 2 clippings.

Chara - Personal experiments, typed on thin paper, on which the appearance of larvae continues on the Chara, 1 clipping.

Charcoal - Science Digest magazine article "Blood Poisons Sponged Up by Charcoal," 5 clippings.

Chaulmoogra - Boston Evening Transcript 1918 "Cure for Leprosy?," 8 clippings, "The Leper's Tree" (American Forests and Forest Life 10 1924), letter from the Chief Chemist at the Culion Leper

Colony to the Chief Physician regarding chaulmoogra oil and a responding letter from the Chief Physician, Casimiro B. Lara.

Chelone - 1 clipping from the Boston Globe 1926 "Turtlehead."

Chemistry - The Scientific Monthly "The Chemistry of the Formation of Poisons in Plants" 1929, The November Scientific Monthly "Some Aspects of the Chemistry of Green Leaf Cells," Nature Magazine "Chemistry and the Forest."

Chenopodium - 7 clippings.

Cherry - 6 clippings.

Chicory - 2 clippings, U.S Department of Agriculture "Chicory as a Farm Crop."

Chimaphila - clipping from The Gardeners' Chronicle 1923 of a black and white photograph of Chimaphila maculate.

Chimo - "Beside the Point" reprinted from the Goucher Alumnae Quarterly 1943.

Chondrus - 6 items, including an article from Today's Woman 1943 "Scituate Company Hires Women for Work with Sea Moss."

Chocolate - "Couple Accused of 'Chocolate Spying' Attempt" The Times, London 1980, "The Story of Chocolate," "Cheap Chocolate Worries the Swiss” 1981, "The Many Shapes of Chocolate" 1980, 33 clippings.

Christmas Greens - 19 items.

Chrysanthemum - 2 clippings.

Chysobalanceae - 2 items.

Cicer - The Mexican Review "Garbanzos or Chick Peas" 1918.

Cichorium - 15 items, one of which is a Boston Globe article from 1926 which describes the tales of how chicory (Wegewarte) was named.

Cider - 15 items, mostly clippings regarding New England apple cider, the tradition and making of.

Cigarettes - "Who Invented the Cigarette?" Boston American 1932, 25 items, most of which are clippings concerning health risks of cigarettes.

Cimicifuga - 2 clippings.

Cinchona - "The ‘Fever Bark' Tree," Philadelphia College notice asking for contributions of quinine to help aid the war (for soldiers to help fight malaria) 1943, 29 items, mostly clippings on quinine.

Cinnamomum - 5 items concerning cinnamon.

Cirsium - 1 clipping, 1 typed page with information and citation.

Citrange - "Citranges in Ireland" The Garden 1922.

Cistus - 16 clippings.

Citrus - 36 items, mostly clippings.

Cladrastis - 1 photocopy, 1 clipping.

Clematis - 1 clipping.

Clethra - 2 clippings.

Clover - 5 clippings.

Cloves - 3 clippings.

Coal - Steel & America: An Annual Report 1983, 12 items.

Coca - "Rituals of Euphoria: Coca in South America" 1974 Museum of Primitive Art pamphlet, Time Magazine "High on Cocaine: A Drug with Status and Menace" 1981, 30 items, mostly clippings regarding cocaine.

Cocaine - People Magazine "Cocaine Destroys the de Lorean Dream and Rocks the Auto Tycoon's Model Family" 1982, Time Magazine "Fighting Cocaine's Grip" 1983, 22 articles and clippings.

Coccoloba - 2 clippings, one about a tree in Little Havana which was hailed to be a miracle tree after curing a man’s eyesight.

Cocoa - 34 items.

Coconut - 26 items, most of which are clippings about coconuts.

Cocos - 21 items, mostly about coconut and coco-oil.

Coffee 1 (up to 1930s) - 53 items, including Boston Evening Transcript 1928 "60 Billion ‘Cupsa Cawfee' Yearly," Boston Transcript 1927 "Coffee Speeds Brain Motor,” The Agricultural News 1910 "The Congo Coffee Plant."

Coffee 2 (1940s-1950s) - 35 items, including Boston Traveler 1952 "Coffee Good for the Heart; Dilates Coronary Arteries," Boston Evening Globe 1942 "Coffee Rationing to Start Nov. 28,” Boston American 1943 "Queer Reasons for Rationing Coffee."

Coffee 3 (1960s) - 8 items, including Boston Traveler 1960 "Brazil Says Change in Coffee Tastes Grounds for Concern," small color pamphlets detailing the "history" and how coffee is made.

Coffee 4 (1970s) - 14 items, including Christian Science Monitor 1972 "Coffee Rust Gobbles Plantations in Brazil," Boston Globe 1976 "Coffee Drinking Controversy Nothing New."

Coffee 5 (1980s) - 36 items, including The New York Times 1981 "Study links coffee use to pancreas cancer."

Coffee Adulterant - Florida Times Union (Jacksonville) 1919 "Coffee from Nut Shells.”

Coffee Substitute - 9 items, including The Rural New Yorker 1918 "Chicory as a Substitute for Coffee," The Agricultural News 1918 "Imitation Coffees."

Coix - The Agricultural News 1904 "Job's Tears as a Poultry Food," The Agricultural News 1904 "Job's Tears as a Famine Food."

Cola - 4 items.

Colchicine - 6 items, including Boston Evening Transcript 1938 "Emulsion Used on Plants Produces Larger Bloom," Boston Evening Transcript 1938 "Drug Speeds Up Plant Evolution,"

Colchicum - The Garden 1922 "Meadow Saffrons."

Collection & Care of Materials - The New York Times 1981 "As Acid Devours Many Old Books, Chemists Race to Stop Decay," The New York Times 1979 "Care, Repair and Preservation of Books."

Colocasia - 5 items.

Colutea - 1 item.

Condiments - 14 items, including The New York Times 1980 "Museum to Show Mustard Containers."

Coniferae- 8 items, including The Garden Magazine 1915 "The Best Hardy Conifers."

Conium - 2 items.

Conopholis - 2 items.

Conservation 1 - 16 items, including The New York Times 1974 "To the Rescue of Endangered Plants," Boston Phoenix 1981 "The Roots of the Matter: John Muir and the Natural History of Conservation,” Science 1980 "Rain Forests Vanishing."

Conservation 2 - 39 items, including Natural History 1981 "Tropical Rain Forests: A Global Responsibility," Americas 1983 "The Regreening of Haiti,” The New York Times 1983 "Forest Service Puts Up a Wall to Save a Rare Alpine Flower," The New York Times 1981 "China Tries to End Loss of its Forests," Harvard Gazette 1985 "Ethnobotanists Race Against Time to Save Useful Plants,” The Times (London) 1980 "Plants Have More Uses than as Food Alone."

Contraceptives - 18 items, including The New York Times 1972 "Orchids Are Tested as a Contraceptive," Harvard Magazine 1978 "Seeds of South American Plant Induce Abortion," The Boston Phoenix 1981 "The Forgotten History of Birth Control," Boston Sunday Globe 1979 "Chinese May Be Using Male Contraceptive Soon."

Convallaria - 1 item.

Cooperage - 1 item.

Copaifera - 1 item.

Copal - 1 item.

Copernicia - 2 items, including The Agricultural News 1903 "The Sealing Wax Palm."

Coptis - 1 item.

Cordyline - 9 items, including The Garden 1917 "Leaves of Cordyline australis as Tying Material."

Cork - 32 items, including Scientific American 1921 "The Story of Cork," The New York Times 1975 "The Humble Cork Plays a Giant Role," The New York Times 1937 "Stripping of Cork Trees is Limited by Portugal."

Cork Substitute - 1 item.

Corn 1 - 34 items.

Corn 2 - 44 items, including Chicago Daily Tribune 1936 "Corn Dynamite is Latest Find of Laboratory."

Corn 3 - 46 items, including The New York Times 1942 "Corncobs Used to Purify Water."

Corn 4 - 34 items, including Boston Sunday Post 1949 "Harvard School Develops New Hybrid Sweet Corn."

Corn 5 - 61 items, including Playboy 1984 "The Great Popcorn Explosion."

Cornus - 15 items, including American Forests 1925 "Dagger Wood."

Cortisone - 5 items

Corylus - 4 items

Corynanthe - 1 item

Corypha - 3 items

Cosmetics - 35 items, including Whole Life Times 1983 "Clay: Earth that Heals."

Cotinus - 4 items

Cotoneaster - 2 items

Cotton 1 - 48 items, including Boston Sunday Globe 1928 "Cotton Has its Uses, Even if Women Will Not Wear It."

Cotton 2 - 44 items, including Scientific American 1920 "Subduing the Boll Weevil."

Cotton 3 - 17 items

Cotton 4 - 38 items, including Boston Sunday Post 1934 "You Can’t Get Along without Cotton - It's All Around You."

Cotton 5 - 30 items, including The Boston Globe 1929 "Long Staple Cotton Called a Necessity".

Cottonseed - 25 items, including Boston Sunday Globe 1979 "Chinese May Be Using Male Contraceptive Soon."

Couma - The Boston Herald 1929 "Cow Tree Gives Milk in Guatemala."

Couroupita - 2 items.

Cowpea - 4 items, including The Agricultural News 1909 "The History of the Cowpea."

Cranberry - 22 items, including Science 1959 "Cranberry Smash," Nature Magazine 1924 "Sauce for the Turk."

Crambe - 2 items.

Crataegus - 4 items.

Crocus - 5 items, including The New York Times 1981 "Spice with the Price of Gold."

Crops - 17 items, including Reader's Digest 1984 "Exotic Crops: a Taste of the Future," Scientific American Monthly 1920 "The Most Valuable Crop," Boston News Bureau 1917 "World Crops."

Crotalaria - 3 items.

Cruciferae - 1 item.

Cucumber - 3 items, including The New York Times 1979 "Yankee Ingenuity Aids the Cucumber," American Vegetable Grower 1974 "Mechanizing Kentucky's Pickle Harvest."

Cucurbita - 15 items, including Science 1930 "The Nativity of the Pumpkins."

Cuminum - Archaeology 1951 "Cumin and Vinegar for Hiccups."

Curare - 15 items, including Boston Traveler 1948 "Arrow Poison Used As Anesthetic," The New York Times 1955 "Curare Declared Risky Anesthetic," Boston Traveler 1952 "Curare Risk Reported by Boston Doctor."

Currant - 2 items.

Cycadaceae - 4 items, including Science 1925 "The Origin of the Cycads," The Garden Magazine 1922 "Two Historic Century-old Cycads."

Cymbopogon - 11 items, including The Agricultural News 1906 "Lemon Grass."

Cynodon - The Agricultual News 1915 "Devil's Grass."

Cyperus - 5 items, including The New York Times 1968 "Ethiopia Still Using Papyrus Boats," Clipper 1979 "Ancient World: Rediscovering Papyrus,” Greenhouse (London) 1978 "Growing Your Own Paper."

Cyphomandra - 3 items, including The Agricultual News 1903 "The Tree Tomato," The American Garden "The Tree Tomato."

Cypress - 2 items.

Cypripedium - 2 items.

Cytisus - 2 items.

 

Dahlia - 2 items.

Daphne - 4 items, including The Garden 1925 "A Winter Garden."

Daphnopsis - The Agriculture News 1907 "Mahoe-Piment."

Dasheen -5 items, including The Agriculture News 1917 "The Uses of Dasheens, Tannias, and Eddoes."

Datura - 9 items, including Time 1983 "Zombies: Do They Exist?," letter from Ursula Worts to Dr. Schultes with attached clippings regarding Datura.

Daucus - 3 items.

Decaisnea - 1 item.

Delphinium - 1 item.

Dendroseris - 1 item.

Derris - 2 items.

Desert Plants - The New York Times 1980 "Agriculture Meets the Desert on Its Own Terms," The New York Times 1975 "Botanists Study Scrubby Plant That Is Thriving in Death Valley."

Diatom - 2 items.

Dictamnus - Boston Evening Transcript 1937 "The Gas Plant Has Many Queer Tricks."

Diet and Nutrition Letter - Vol. 2 No. 12 February 1985, Vol. 3 No. 1 March 1985, Free newsletter, Vol. 3 No. 2 1985.

Digitalis - 11 items, including The New York Times 1981 "Hidden in Great Art Are Clues to Ailments of the Painters," The Boston Herald 1935 "Digitalis Is Most Important in Treating Heart Ailments.

Dilleniaceae - 1 item.

Dioscorea - 16 items, including The Times (London) "Hormone Product Turns Away from the Jungle," The Gardeners' Chronicle 1928 "A Curious Yam," The New York Times 1950 "Plant Hunt is Set to Aid Cortisone".

Diospyros - 6 items.

Dipsacus - 2 items.

Dipteryx - 7 items, including The Agriculture News 1906 "Tonga Beans."

Dirca - 2 items.

Disease - 47 items, including The New York Times 1973 "Fungus Epidemic Hits Trees Here," The Times (London) 1978 "Botany: Plant Immunity to Infection," Science 1912 "Insects Contributing to the Control of the Chestnut Blight Disease," The Garden 1924 "The Gooseberry Mildew."

Distribution - 4 items.

Dolichos - 2 items.

Dracaena - 2 items.

Drimys- 2 items.

Drosera - Boston Globe 1926 "The Round Leaved Sundew."

Drug Screening - 2 items.

Drugs 1 (1920s and miscellaneous) - 45 items, mostly clippings on the medical benefits of various plants (such as cundurango, Kalmia).

Drugs 2 (1930s) - 26 items, mostly clippings including Boston Herald 1938 "Chlorophyll Hailed as Cold Cure," articles on foxglove; also some correspondence (USDA, Eli Lilly & Co., others) on the subject of "crude drugs."

Drugs 3 (1940s) - 43 items, mostly clippings, including multiple articles on quinine (related to World War II) and penicillin.

Drugs 4 (1940s) - 36 items, mostly clippings; more articles on penicillin; several manufacturers' product descriptions for Streptomycin.

Drugs 5 (1950s) - 12 items, mostly clippings on the medicinal value of plants; a typed chapter titled "Plants in Medicine" (no author, no book title given).

Drugs 6 (1960s) - 35 items, mostly clippings; articles about "exotic" and foreign plants including Daily News 1961 "Comb World to Find New Wonder Drugs" (which discusses Schultes); extensive National Association of Retail Druggists materials for educating students about drug abuse and addiction.

Drugs 7 (1960s) - 19 items, mostly clippings; articles on folk medicine and natural medicine; a letter from Schultes to George M. Fister of the AMA.

Drugs 8 (1970s) - 28 items, mostly clippings on pharmaceuticals, natural medicine, and recreational drugs; El Bogotano "Cura la Impotencia Masculina;" Prevention 1976 "Nicole Maxwell, Herb Lady of the Rain Forest;" Boston Globe 1978 "LSD-Report from the Living Dead"; Urology 1973 "Candiru: Urinophilic Catfish: Its Gift to Urology."

Drugs 9 (1980s) items, mostly clippings; articles on the acceptance of traditional medicine by modern doctors; several articles on Chinese herbal medicines; Artesiana y Folklore de Venezuela 1982 "Los Hierbateros."

Durian – 7 items, mostly clippings; also a postcard written to the Botanical Museum

Dyes - 43 items, mostly clippings; brochure from Plymouth Antiquarian Society "Notes on Vegetable Dyeing" with samples of colored yarn; photocopied letter from Masayasa Konichi to Dorothy Kamen-Kaye.

 

 

Earthwatch - Number 16, 1984.

Eagle Wing Press - Late Winter 1985.

Ecballium - 1 clipping

Echinocystis - 1 clipping

Ecology 1 - 34 items, mostly clippings; eclectic articles on acid rain, pollution, Co2, the rain forest, etc.

Ecology 2 - items, mostly clippings; ecosystems, pollution; a brochure for the new Alchemy Institute, an ecologically-friendly organization on Cape Cod.

Economic Botany 1 - 37 items, mostly clippings, including New Scientist 1982 "An Eldorado of Plants that Cure, Feed and Fuel."

Economic Botany 2 - 31 items, including Science 1890 "Useful Plants in Guatemala," The Times (London) 1980 "Plants That Have More Uses Than As Food Alone".

Economic Botany 3 - 19 items, including Natural History 1936 "Native American Food."

Eichornia - 4 items.

Elaeis - 14 items, including Boston Sunday Globe 1982 "Soap and Slavery," The Agricultural News 1907 "The Oil Palm."

Elaeocarpus - 1 clipping.

Elettaria - 2 clippings.

Entada - 2 clippings.

Enzymes - 6 items.

Ephedra - 6 items, including Science News Letter 1933 "Two Drugs Found Which Cure Horrible Disease of Weakness."

Epigaea - 2 clippings.

Epilobium - 2 clippings.

Ergot - 10 items, including American Scientist 1982 "Ergot and the Salem Witchcraft Affair," The New York Times 1982 "New Study Backs Thesis on Witches."

Ergosterol - 1 clipping.

Eriobotrya - 8 clippings.

Eriophorum - 1 clipping.

Erythraea - 1 clipping.

Erythrina - 3 clippings, including Boston Post 1943 "Coral Tree Drug Helps Paralysis."

Erythronium - 1 clipping.

Erythroxylon - 22 clippings, including Good Housekeeping Magazine 1912 "Dr. Wiley on Drug Dangers." The American Food Journal 1911 "Coca-Cola Free from Cocaine."

Eschscholtzia - 2 clippings.

Esparto - 2 clippings.

Essential Oils - 6 items.

Ethnobotany 1 (up to 1950s) - 25 items, including Cosmopolitan 1955 "Witch Doctors and Your Health."

Ethnobotany 2 (1960s - 1980s) - 35 items, including Harvard Gazette 1985 "Ethnobotanists Race Against Time to Save Useful Plants."

Ethnobotany 2 (1960s - 1980s) Cont. - 38 items, including The New York Times 1992 "Drug Made from Rare Tree Is Approved to Treat Cancer."

Eucalyptus - 30 items, including The Agriculture News 1912 "The Uses of Eucalyptus."

Eucommia - 3 items.

Eucryphia - 2 items.

Euonymus - 4 items

Euphorbia - 15 items, including The New York Times 1976 "Chemist Says a Botanical Plant Can Be Used to Make Gasoline."

Euphorbiaceae - 3 items.

Everglades - 1 item.

Evolution - 29 items, including The New York Times 1982 "Prehistoric Gnat."

Eysenhardtia - 2 items.

Fagopyrum - 1 item

Farina - 2 items

Fats - 7 items, including The Times, London 1976 "Living Dangerously on the Fat of the Land."

Fenugreek - 1 item

Ferns - 5 items, including Missouri Botanical Garden Bulletin 1955 "The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary."

Fertilizers - 8 items, including The Times, London 1982 "Ready-cooked Onion Mystery May Be Solved."

Fibers - 60 items, including Scientific American Monthly 1921 "Fireproofing Fabrics."

Ficus - 18 items, including The New York Times 1983 "Raising Figs - It's a Family Tradition."

Fish Poison - 9 items, including Science News-Letter 1930 "Search for Poisonous Plants."

Flavorings - 18 items, including The Boston Globe 1982 "French Work on Vegetable Ice Creams."

Flax - 19 items, including The Boston Globe 1983 "Robe from 1000 BC found on Greek Island," Boston Evening Transcript 1929 "Flax Makes Poison to Kill Fungus Enemy."

Flour - 15 items, including Boston Evening Transcript 1926 "Flour Trade of the Orient."

Fodder - 54 items, including The Agricultural News 1918 "The Cabbage Palm Fruit as a Food for Hogs," The Boston Globe 1928 "Scientist Makes Fodder for Cattle out of Wood."

Food 1 - 22 items, including Science 1939 "Plankton as a Food Source for Man," Boston Traveler 1942 "Juice of Tree Preservative of Army Food."

Food 2 - 25 items.

Food 3 - 36 items, including The Boston Daily Globe 1955 "2 Plants Solve Food Problem, Say China," U.S. News & World Report 1964 "Why Hunger Is to Be the World's No. 1 Problem."

Food 4 - 30 items, including Scientific American 1925 "Man Is What He Eats," Boston Sunday Herald 1930 "Dr. Fairchild Finds New Food Plants for American Table."

Food 5 - 24 items, including American Forestry 1916 “Tree Bark as Human Food."

Food 6 - 34 items, including American Scientist 1970 "The Changing Significance of Food."

Food Adulteration - 1 item

Food Preservation - 6 items

Food Storage - 2 items

Food Substitutes - 6 items

Forage - 7 items, including Boston Globe 1981 "What's More 'Natural' than a Dish of Weeds?"

Forest Classification - 8 items

Forest Models - 1 item

Forest Products 1 - 8 items

Forest Products 2 - 14 items

Forest Products 3 - 56 items including Harvard Gazette 1985 "Ethnobotanists Race Against Time to Save Useful Plants," American Forestry 1920 "Scented Woods."

Forestry - 57 items, including The New York Times 1982 "Damage to India's Forests Brings Tribal Rage," Sierra 1983 "Toward a Definition of the ‘Ideal’ Forest," Natural History 1981 "Tropical Rain Forests: a Global Responsibility."

Fothergilla - 1 item

Fritillaria - 1 item

Fruit 1 - 35 items, including Sunday Express 1974 "A Fresh Juicy Fruit from Ancient China."

Fruit 2 - 51 items, including American Forestry 1917 "Edible Fruits of Forest Trees."

Fuel 1 - 48 items, including The New York Times 1981 "Seaweed is Studied as Source of Natural Gas."

Fuel 2 - 38 items, including New York Times 1981 "Philippines Cultivates Fruit as Source of Fuel."

Fuel 3 - 7 items

Fungi - 38 items, including The Boston Globe 1981 "Fungus Danger Reported in Marijuana."

Furcraea - 3 items

Furfural - 3 items

 

 

 

Galls - 2 items

Gambier - 1 item

Garcinia - 5 items

Gardenia - 1 item

Garlic - 14 items, including The New York Times 1979 "The World According to Garlic."

Garrya - 1 item

Gas Masks - 4 items

Gaultheria -4 items

Gaylussacia - 1 item

Genetics - 31 items, including New York Times 1971 "A Triumph of Genetics Threatens Disaster."

Genipa - 1 item

Genista - 1 item

Gentiana - 1 item

Geranium - 2 items

Geum - 1 item

Ginger - 11 items

Ginkgo - 10 items

Ginseng - 51 items, including Boston Traveler 1943 "Ginseng Coming Back into Favor," Smithsonian 1976 "Ginseng, Folklore Cure-all, Is Being Regarded Seriously."

Glass Flowers - 5 items

Gleditsia - 4 items

Gliricidia - 1 item

Glue - 4 items

Glycerine - 1 item

Glycosides - 2 items

Goldenrod - 3 items

Gooseberries - 4 items

Gourds - 8 items, including The Garden 1924 "Ornamental Gourds."

Grain - 6 items

Gramineae - 8 items, including The New York Times 1971 "Scientists Puzzled by Cattle Disease."

Grapefruit - 6 items

Grapes - 18 items

Grindelia - 1 item

Guava - 5 items

Guayule - 48 items, including The Mexican Review 1918 "Cultivation of Guayule," The Literary Digest 1931 "American Rubber at Last."

Gums - 27 items, including Boston Evening Transcript 1938 "Gum Around the World".

Gum Arabic - 4 items

Gunnera - 1 item

Gutta-Percha - 10 items

Guttiferae - 1 item

Gymnocladus - 2 items

Gymnosperms - 3 items

Gynerium - 7 items

 

 

Hallucinogens 1 (up to 1950s) - 10 items, including The Boston Daily Globe 1956 "Columbian Jungle Area Untouched by Civilization."

Hallucinogens 2 (1960s) - 42 items, including The Coral Gables Times 1968 "Hallucination Drug Cult Faces Legal Test."

Hallucinogens 3 - 17 items, including The New York Times 1978 "Doctor Links Indian Art to Drugs."

Hallucinogens 4 - 14 items, including The Seattle Times 1985 "Botanist Says He's Unmasked Mystery," Newsweek 1982 "Guns, Grass and Money."

Halophytes - 2 items.

Hamamelis - 3 items.

Hats - 14 items, including Field Museum News 1939 "Straw Hats," Gardeners' Chronicle 1915 "The Bamboo Hat Industry."

Hay Fever - 25 items, including New York Times 1982 "Mushroom Spores Suspected as Culprit in Allergic Reactions that Baffled Specialists," Newsweek 1982 "Allergies: New Discoveries, New Relief."

Helianthus - 28 items, including The New York Times 1983 "An Artichoke to Grow in the Sun," The Garden 1918 "A Sunflower Village."

Heliotropium - 1 item

Helleborus - 2 items

Hemerocallis - 1 item

Hemlock - 4 items, including The Garden Magazine 1910 "Is the Southern Hemlock Better."

Hemp - 8 items, including Commerce Reports 1931 "Hemp Experiments in Colombia.”

Hepatica - 3 items

Herbals - 6 items, including The New York Times 1981 "Medieval Manuscripts."

Herbaria - 2 items

Herbicides - 7 items, including The New York Times 1982 "Panel Sees Problem in Study of Effects of Agent Orange."

Herbs 1 - 32 items, including The Garden 1925 "Some Culinary Herbs Worth Cultivating," The Gardeners' Chronicle 1929 "Curious Old Beliefs About Medicinal Herbs."

Herbs 2 - 45 items, including Life 1961 "A New Urge for Herbs," Field Museum News 1941 "Medicinal Science Was Father of Botanical Studies."

Herbs 3 - 61 items, including The Real Paper 1981 "Consumer Beware: Unhealthful Herbs,” New York Times 1977 "Herbs to Grow for Refreshing Cups of Tea," The American Weekly 1959 "The Search for Life-giving Herbs."

Herb-Clip - 8 items

Hernandia - 1 item

Hevea - 16 items, including Arnoldia 1984 "The Tree that Changed the World in One Century" by Richard Evans Schultes.

Hibiscus - 17 items, including The Agricultural News 1904 "Musk Seed."

Hickory - 5 items, including The New York Times 1936 "Hardest Wood Used for Skis."

Hieracium - 1 item

Hippophae - 2 items

Hoheria - 1 item

Holcus - 2 items

Honey - 24 items, including The New York Times 1983 "Radioactivity Found in Bees."

Hops - 10 items

Horticulture - 53 items, including The Boston Globe 1981 "Plants Can Be an Educational Hobby," The New York Times 1936 "Patents for Plants."

Hura - 1 item

Hydrastis - 1 item

Hydrilla - 1 item

Hydroponics - 3 items

Hypericum - 1 item

Hyptis - 1 item

 

Ilex - 25 items, including China Reconstructs 1977 "Treating Burns with Herbal Medicine," Nature Magazine 1942 "The Shrub Called Paraguay."

Iboga - 3 items.

Illipe - 3 items.

Impatiens - 2 items.

Incense - 6 items.

Indigo - 5 items.

Ink - 4 items, including The Literary Digest 1917 "Indelible Ink from Fungi."

Insecticides 1 - 27 items, including The New York Times 1979 "An African Plant May Save Crops," The New York Times 1981 "Soap and Vinegar Are Fine Insecticides," The Times (London) 1980 "Zoology: Red Dye Deters Ants."

Insecticides 2 - 38 items, including The Herb Shelf 1983 "Insect Repellents for Pets & People," The New York Times 1982 "Plants That Kill Ticks," The New York Herald Tribune 1940 "The Weed That Is Winning a War," The New York Times 1970 "How to Turn Insects Against Themselves."

Insects - 48 items, including The New York Times 1981 "Bees Remember the Sun," Scientific American 1926 "The Scourge of the Japanese Beetle," Newsweek 1975 "Army Ants on the March," The New York Times 1981 "Massive Beetle Infestation Destroys Pines in West," Natural History 1979 "The Weevil and the Wasp."

Iodine - 5 items.

International Health -Volume 4, No. 2 April 1983.

Inula - 1 item.

Ipomoea - 6 items.

Iris - 2 items.

Irrigation - 7 items, including The New York Times 1981 "Ancients Had Water Politics, Too."

Isatis - 2 items.

Intoxicants - 22 items, including The Boston Globe 1972 "Scotch is Much Like a Symphony."

Ivy - 3 items.

 

Jasminum - 1 item.

Jatropha - 3 items.

Jojoba Happenings - 1983 - 1985. 16 selected issues.

Jubaea - 1 item.

Juglans - 5 items, including Horticulture 1944 "The Noble Black Walnut".

Juniperus - 9 items.

Jute - 10 items, including Commerce Reports 1932 "The Jute Industry in India".

Kalopanax - 1 item.

Kalmia - 7 items, including The Garden 1919 "The Kalmias".

Kapok - 16 items, including The Agriculture News 1912 "Silk Cotton, or Kapok".

Kelp - 14 items, including Scientific American 1918 "Sea-Weed for War".

Kenaf - 1 item.

Kerstingiello - 3 items.

Kigelia - 2 items, including Field Museum News 1935 "The Sausage Tree".

Khat - 11 items.

Kniphofia - 1 item.

 

Labels - 9 color labels. Some folded.

Lacquer - 6 items.

Lactuca - 12 items, including The Garden 1921 "Salads All the Year."

Lagenaria - 3 items.

Lagerstroemia - 1 item.

Lagetta - 2 items.

Larix - 2 items.

Latua - 18 items.

Laurus - 3 items.

Lavandula - 2 items.

Lawsonia - 2 items.

Lecythidaceae - 3 items.

Ledum - 1 item.

Leguminosae - 19 items, including The New York Times 1983 "Sometimes Elegant Wisteria Must Be Coaxed to Flower," The New York Times 1982 "Plants That Kill Ticks".

Lemon - 13 items, including Sunday Times (London) 1975 "For hangovers the answer's a lemon."

Leonurus - 1 item.

Lentils - 1 item.

Lespedeza - 2 items.

Leucaena - 7 items, including Miami Herald 1979 "'Miracle Tree' May Provide Cure for World's Dwindling Forests."

Levisticum - 1 item.

Levulose - 1 item.

Libocedrus - 2 items, including Horticulture 1942 "The California Incense-Cedar."

Lichens - 11 items, including Smithsonian 1984 "Lichens give food, drugs, perfume - and poison," Natural History 1938 "Lichens: The Hardy Pioneers of Plant Life."

Licorice - 6 items.

Ligustrum - 3 items.

Lime - 6 items, including The Agriculture News 1906 "Lime Cultivation."

Linaria - 1 item.

Linum - 3 items.

Lirodendron - 3 items.

Liquidambar - 5 items.

Litchi - 6 items, including The Boston Globe 1980 "Paper says cow saliva helps growth of grass."

Litsea - 1 item.

Livistona - 3 items.

Lobelia - 4 items.

Lodoicea - 9 items, including The Agriculture News 1912 "The Double Coco-nut Palm."

Loganberry - 17 items.

Logwood - 5 items.

Lonchocarpus - Field Museum News 1934 "A Peruvian Fish Poison."

Lonicera - 2 items.

Lunar Plants - 1 item.

Lophophora - 6 items, including The New York Times 1936 "Scientists Take Drugs to Induce Madness."

Loranthus - 1 item.

Luffa - 4 items, including The Agriculture News 1911 "The Loofah or Vegetable Sponge."

Lupinus- 7 items.

Lycoperdon - 2 items.

 

 

Macadamia - 15 items, including The Boston Globe 1981 "Costly macadamia nuts are in demand."

Maclura - 1 clipping

Magnolia - 4 clippings

Mahogany - 15 items, including The Forester 1899 "False Mahogany of South America."

Mahonia - 1 item

Malaria - 3 items, including The New York Times 1980 "China Making Antimalaria Drug from Herb Used for 2,000 Years."

Malpighiaceae - 2 items

Malva - 1 clipping

Mandragora - 2 items, including "Mandragora, A Sleeping Draught from Ancient Times" by W.C. Devrient.

Mango - 14 items, including The Agriculture News 1903 "Uses of the Mango."

Mangrove - 10 items, including Smithsonian 1985 "On tropical coasts mangroves blend the forest into the sea."

Manicaria - 1 clipping

Manihot - 10 items including American Food Journal 1912 "Food Derivatives of Manioca Root."

Manna - 7 items, including The New York Times 1969 "Manna provided in a Cairo church."

Manure - 3 clippings

Maple 1 - 17 items, including Boston Post 1929 "Maple Syrup, how it's made."

Maple 2 - 48 items, including The Christian Science Monitor 1983 "Squeezing syrup from sap with high-tech help."

Maps - 3 items

Markets - 4 items

Martyniaceae - 3 items, including Economic Botany 38(4) 1984 "Folk names and uses for martyniaceous plants."

Masticatories - 5 items, including The Times (London) 1980 "How smokers can kick the habit, by gum."

Mate - 2 items

Medeola - 1 clipping

Medicinal Plants - 3 items

Melaleuca - 2 items

Melia - 2 items, including The Garden Magazine 1915 "The Umbrella China Tree."

Melilotus - 3 clippings

Mentha - 11 items, including The New York Times 1981 "Mint: the basics of an extremely multifarious herb."

Menyanthes - 1 clipping

Mertensia - 3 clippings

Mesembryanthemum - 1 clipping, The Gardeners' Chronicle 1928 "The edible ice plant."

Methysticodendron - 5 items, including The Chemist and Druggist 1956 "A powerful new narcotic: An American botanist's Andes ‘Discovery’."

Metroxylon - 2 items

Mimosa - 4 items

Mimusops - 1 clipping

Molasses - 9 items, including Scientific American 1919 "Disastrous explosion of a tank of molasses."

Monarda - 1 clipping

Monotropa - 2 clippings

Monstera - 3 clippings, including The New York Times " 1977 "The 'delicious monster' is a well-known house plant."

Moringa - 3 clippings

Morus - 5 clippings

Mosses - 2 items

Mucuna - 6 clippings

MurAc - 1 clipping

Musaceae - 5 clippings

Mushrooms 1 (up to 1970s) - 26 items, including Nature Magazine 1924 "Mushrooms, Edible and Otherwise," Boston Evening Globe 1972 "Experts call Amherst boy's death from mushroom poisoning rare."

Mushrooms 2 (1980s) - 24 items

Mushrooms 3 - 29 items, some clippings, an illustration plate.

Mushrooms 4 - 7 items

Musical Instruments - 7 items, including China Reconstructs 30(11) 1981 "Early Musical Instruments Live Again."

Muskmelon - 1 clipping

Myrciaria - 2 clippings

Myrica - 8 items, including The Garden Magazine 1908 "Making Sweet-Scented Candles."

Myristica - 13 items, including Chicago Sun-Times 1961 "Nutmeg costs a county jail guard his job."

Myristicaceae - 1 item

Myrtus - 1 item

 

 

Narcissus - 3 clippings

Narcotic Mushrooms 1 (up to 1950s) - 10 items

Narcotic Mushrooms 2 (1960s) - 18 items

Narcotic Mushrooms 3 (1970s) - 20 items, including Journal of Psychedelic Drugs 9(2) 1977 "Hallucinogenic Mushrooms in Guatemala."

Narcotic Mushrooms 4 (1980s) - 13 items, including Boston Sunday Globe 1982 "Magic Mushrooms," Nature 1981 "Doctors Warn of Mushroom Abuse."

Narcotics 1 - 5 items

Narcotics 2 - 5 items

Narcotics 3 - 6 clippings

Narcotics 4 - 7 items, including Harper's Magazine "The truth about the 'drug menace'.”

Narcotics 5 - 33 items, including The New York Times 1960 "Westchester finds 100 youths indulge in narcotic parties."

Narcotics 6 - 15 items, including Time 1983 "Fighting Cocaine's Grip.”

Narcotics 7 - 24 items

Narcotics 8 - 20 items

Narcotics 9 - folder empty

Narcotics 10 - 6 items

Nectar - 2 items

Nectarine - 1 clipping

Nelumbo - 5 items, including The Times (London) 1982 "Seeds of lotus spring to life after 500 years."

Nepeta - 6 items, including Boston Transcript 1928 "Liking for catnip lures ferocious relatives of cat."

Nerium - 1 clipping

Nicotiana - 11 items, including The Garden Magazine 1913 "The Flowering Tobacco."

Nigella - 3 clippings

Nipa - 4 items

Nitrogen - 10 items, including New York Times 1981 "Nitrogen Fixing."

Nothofagus - 3 clippings

Nutrition - 26 items

Nutrition 2 - 50 items, including The New York Times 1980 "Hidden Fat: the Hazards," The New York Times 1979 "Chinese Nutrition is Faulted in Study."

Nuts - 42 items, including The Times (London) 1980 "Ban on nut 'poisons' is planned by minister," New York Times 1972 "Woman's Museum is Devoted to Nuts."

Nymphaea - 2 clippings

Nyssa - 6 items

 

 

Oak - 6 clippings

Oats - 2 clippings

Ochroma - 12 clippings, including Boston Traveler 1942 "Balsa is Vital to War Effort."

Ocimum - 4 clippings, including The Agricultural News 1904 "A Victim of the Mosquito Plant."

Oenothera - 4 clippings

Oil Seeds - 15 items

Oils 1.1 (up to 1910s) - 19 clippings, including American Food Journal 1912 "The Shea Butter of Africa."

Oils 1.2 (1910s) - 16 clippings, including U.S. Commerce Reports 1918 "New Oil Seed from the Kongo."

Oils 1.3 (1910s) - 6 items, including Scientific American 1919 "Using Vegetable Seeds."

Oils 2.1 (1920s - 1930s) - 21 clippings

Oils 2.2 (1920s - 1930s) - 28 clippings, including Boston Evening Transcript 1936 "Germ-Killing Oil Distilled from Australian Tree."

Oils 3 (1940s - 1950s) - 14 items

Oils 3.2 - 8 items

Okra - 2 items

Olea - 15 clippings, including Smithsonian 1985 "One of Nature's Greatest Gifts to Man."

Olearia - 4 clippings

Onion - 11 items, including Boston Traveler 1939 "Onions, Garlic and Horse Radish Seen Potential Deadly Enemies of Disease."

Opium 1 (up to 1920s) - 10 items, including The Boston Globe 1928 "Customs men seize $1,000,000 in Opium."

Opium 2 (1930s-1940s) - 13 items, including The Boston Sunday Post 1936 "Opium Ban Cost 25 Millions."

Opium 3 (1950) - 1 item

Opium 4 (1960's - 1980's) - 22 clippings, including Orientations 1979 "Old China's Opium Boxes," High Times 1982 "Master Addicts."

Opuntia - 10 clippings, including The Garden Magazine 1908 "The Oldest Flowers in Cultivation."

Oral Hygiene - 1 clipping

Oranges - 32 clippings, including Scientific American Monthly 1921 "The Perfume of the Orange."

Orchids - 19 items, including The New York Times 1972 "Orchids are Tested as Contraceptive."

Ordeal Poison - 1 clipping

Oreodoxa - 2 clippings

Ornamental Plants - 9 items

Ornamental Seeds - 2 clippings

Oroxylon - 1 clipping

Orthostemon - 3 clippings

Ostrya - 2 clippings

Oxalis - 3 items

 

 

Pachyrhizus – 2 clippings

Paeonia – 2 clippings

Paint – 3 clippings

Paleobotany – 16 items, including Natural History 1984 “Ancient Flowers for the Faithful,” The Times (London) 1980 “Microbiology: The oldest fossils.”

Palmae 1 – 30 clippings, including The Agricultural News 1906 “The Economic Uses of the Palms.”

Palmae 2 – 26 items, including The Agricultural News 1908 “Palm Trees and Their Uses.”

Pandanus – 3 clippings

Papaver – 11 clippings, including Natural History 1980 “The Versatile Opium Poppy.”

Papaveraceae – 1 clipping

Paper 1 – 38 items, including The Agricultural News 1913 “New Sources of Paper.”

Paper 2 – 14 items, including Natural History 1937 “The Story of Paper.”

Paper 3 – 42 items, including American Forestry 1917 “Forestry and the Paper Industry.”

Paper 4 – 19 items, including The Boston Globe 1925 “The Invention of Writing and Discovery of Metals.”

Paper 5 – 23 items, including The New York Times 1981 “Book Keeping in New York.”

Paper Pulp – 15 clippings, including American Forestry 1920 “Paper pulp from seaweed”.

Parkinsonia – 9 items, including The Times (London) 1982 “Some acid words from mummy,” Harvard Gazette 1979 “Historic records: Legal documents could be oldest from Palestine.”

Parmentiera – 1 clipping

Passiflora – 7 items, including The Agricultural News 1903 “The Bell Apple.”

Paullinia – 18 items

Pea – 4 clippings

Peach – 6 clippings

Peanuts 1 (up to 1930s) – 31 items

Peanuts 2 (1940s–1980s) – 26 items

Pear – 16 items

Peat – 18 items, including Natural History 1982 “Beneath the blanket bogs of Britain.”

Pecan – 7 items

Pedicularis – 1 clipping

Peltostigma – 2 clippings

Penicillin – 7 clippings

Pentadesma – 1 clipping

Pepper – 11 items

Peppermint – 2 items

Perfumes – 34 clippings, including Boston Traveler 1951 “Making, selling perfume grosses 100 Million yearly,” Clipper 1979 “The World’s Rare Fragrances.”

Periploca – 1 clipping

Persea – 9 clippings, including The Agricultural News 1909 “The Avocado Pear.”

Persimmon – 2 clippings

Pesticides – 14 clippings, including The New York Times 1980 “Turkish Farmers Turn Bitterly from Opium Poppy.”

Peyote – 31 items, including The Florida Times–Union “Vicious Drug Plays Havoc with Navajos.”

Phaseolus – 12 clippings, including The Agricultural News 1905 “Lima Beans.”

Phleum – 1 item

Phoenix – 24 clippings, including Geographical Review 1926 “The Distribution of the Date Palm.”

Phoradendron – 2 clippings

Phormium – 10 clippings, including The Agricultural News 1918 “New Zealand Hemp.”

Photinia – 1 clipping

Physiology – 8 clippings, including Newsweek 1980 “Hormones for Profit.”

Physostigma – 1 clipping

Phytelephas – 6 clippings

Phytochemistry – 4 items

Phytolacca – 6 items

Picea – 10 items, including Natural History 1938 “The Rarest American Spruce.”

Pickles – 3 items

Pilocarpus – 1 item

Pimenta – 5 items

Pinckneya – 3 items

Pine – 13 items

Pineapple – 24 items

Pinus – 41 items, including American Forestry 1917 “The Slash Pine.”

Piper – 17 items, including New York Times 1971 “Betel–Leaf Chewers in Karachi Joyfully Await a Taste of Peace.”

Pipes – 14 items, including New York Times 1979 advertisement “New – Fashionable Pipes for the Ladies (you need not inhale).”

Pisonia – 1 item

Pistacia – 7 items

Pisum – 1 item

Pithecolobium – 5 items, including American Forestry 1916 “The Saman or Rain Tree.”

Plant Lore – 15 items, including The New York Times Sunday 1938 “Finds Death Trees, Feared by Indians.”

Plantago – 5 items

Plastics – 3 items

Plantus – 3 items

Plum – 7 items

Podophyllum – 3 items

Poinsettia – 1 item

Poisons 1 (up to 1930s) – 40 items, including The Garden 1921 “Squills as a Rat Poison,” The Boston Globe 1924 “Two are Killed by Toadstools.”

Poisons 2 – 23 items

Poisons 3 – 17 items, including The New York Times 1983 “The Deepening Mystery of Yellow Rain.”

Pollination – 1 item

Polygala – 2 items

Polygonum – 2 items

Polymnia – 1 item

Pomaderris – 1 item

Pontederia – 2 items

Potato 1 – 34 items, including Science News Letter 1929 “Earliest Description of Potatoes.”

Potato 2 – 35 items, including The New York Times 1938 “Researchers work on sticky potato that traps insects.”

Preservatives – 3 items, including The New York Times Sunday 1978 “Dried Blossoms Will Last Forever”.

Preserves – 6 items, including The Garden Magazine 1916 “The Guava – A Substitute for Gooseberries in Florida.”

Primula – 2 items

Prioria – 1 item

Propagation – 1 item

Prosopis – 11 items, including The New York Times 1982 “Mesquite: Bad Press but Great Flavor.”

Protein – 9 items

Prunus – 24 items

Pseudotsuga – 11 items

Psophocarpus – 13 items, including Life Magazine 1980 “Food for Tomorrow: From odd pods that grow in the tropics to lobsters bred in boxes.”

Pteridium – 6 items

Puccoon – 1 item

Pumpkins – 8 items

Punica – 4 items

Puya – 2 items

Pyrethrum – 4 items

Pyrola – 2 items

Pyrus – 7 items

 

 

Quebracho – 2 items

Quercus – 19 items

Quiina – 1 item

Quince – 1 item

Radish – 4 items

Raffia – 2 items

Rafflesia – 1 item

Rainforests – 4 items, including Christian Science Monitor 1982 “Making sure the world hears when a tree falls in the forest.”

Raisins – 6 items

Ramie – 6 items, including Boston Sunday Herald “Ramie Claimed to be Oldest Textile in Use by Man.”

Raspberries – 4 items

Rattan – 3 items

Rauwolfia – 6 items

Ravenala – 6 items, including Chicago Natural History Museum Bulletin 1947 “A rare tropical plant is found by museum botanist.”

Rayon – 19 items, including Scientific American 1926 “The Latest Member of Our Textile Family.”

Rennets – 3 items

Reseda – 1 item

Resins – 13 items, including Boston Evening Transcript 1929 “The Gum Digger Days are Gone.”

Rhamnus – 2 items

Rhinanthus – 1 item

Rhododendron – 3 items

Rhubarb – 14 items

Rhus – 26 items, including Horticulture 1929 “Poison Ivy and Poison Sumac.”

Ribes – 8 items

Rice 1 (up to 1950s) – 33 items

Rice 2 – 33 items, including New York Times 1972 “Asian Countries Fear a Rice Glut.”

Ricinus – 21 items, including Scientific American 1919 “The Castor Bean and Its Many Uses.”

Robina – 6 items, including American Forestry 1917 “Black Locust Needed for Ships”.

Rocella – 1 item

Rope – 3 items

Roripa – 2 items

Rosa – 12 items, including a letter with four photographs from J.C. Boyd in 1962 of otto of rose distillation in Bulgaria.

Root Crops – 4 items

Rubber 1 (before 1920s) – 71 items, including The Agriculture News 1909 “The Tonkin Rubber Tree.”

Rubber 1 Continued – 25 items, many concerning Mr. Henry Wickham, a key contributor to the rubber industry.

Rubber 2 – 32 items, including The New York Times 1943 “We Tame a Jungle to Get Our Rubber.”

Rubber 2 Continued – 25 items, including The India–Rubber Journal 1925 “Rubber Shoe Making in 1876.”

Rubber 3 (1930s) – 36 items, including Science–Supplement 1938 “The Increasing Use of Rubber,” Science 1936 “Rubber content of Goldenrod leaves affected by light,” The Boston Sunday Post 1937 “Auto Made Possible by Rubber.” Science 1933 “Research Stretches Rubber to New Uses as Textile.”

Rubber 3 Continued – 12 items, including The India–Rubber Journal 1911 “The Rubber–Smoking House at Singapore Botanic Gardens.”

Rubber 4 (1940s) – 69 items, including New York Herald Tribune 1942.

Rubber 5 – 74 items, including The New York Herald Tribune 1942 “Taking the Rubber Situation to Heart,” The Boston Daily Globe 1942 “Discover No Quick Source of Natural Rubber,” The Boston Herald 1942 “Rubber Shortage So Desperate Bus Lines Face Curtailment,” The Boston Herald 1942 “Text of Roosevelt’s Scrap Rubber Plea,” Boston Traveler 1942 “No More Tires Until 1945.”

Rubber 6 (1940s) – 52 items, including Boston Sunday Post 1948 “New trees developed for rubber,” Boston Herald 1940 “Wild Rubber Found on Orinoco May Solve U.S. Problem,” The Boston Daily Globe 1942 “Rubber Is Prize in Fierce Brazilian Jungle Warfare.”

Rubber 7 (1950s–1980s) – 13 items, including New Scientist 1981 “The state of rubber,” Arnoldia 1984 “The Tree that Changed the World in One Century” by Richard Evans Schultes, The New York Times 1981 “Extending the Uses of the Rubber Band.”

Rubber – Brazilian Propaganda – 58 items, including several cartoons illustrating the rubber shortage, The American Weekly 1942 “Cheer Up, There’s Rubber in Those Dandelions,” Science–Supplement 1948 “Discovery of Rubber in Decayed Bark,” Boston Traveler 1942 “New Source of Rubber Found in South Africa.”

Rubber – Brazilian Propaganda – 35 items, some duplicates, mostly pamphlets written in Portuguese.

Rubber Substitute – 9 items, including Industrial Research 1964 “Metamorphosis in Rubber,” The Cuba Review 1909 “Rubber Substitute from Cacti.”

Rubber – Synthetic – 61 items, including Science – Supplement 1943 “A New Synthetic Rubber,” The Florida Times–Union 1943 “Way is found to get synthetic rubber from Florida sugar cane,” Boston Herald 1942 “U.S. To Spend 400 Million for Rubber.”

Rubber Misc. – 3 folders.

Rubus – 14 items, including The Garden 1925 “Rubus quinqueflorus.”

Ruta – 2 items.

Rye – 3 items.

 

Sabadilla – 5 items.

Sabal – 1 item.

Saccharum – 16 items, including The Sunday Times–Union 1942 “Sugar Cane May Help in Winning War,” The United States Daily 1928 “Mammoth Sugar Cane Found in New Guinea.”

Saffron – 5 items, including New York Times 1981 “Spice With the Price of Gold.”

Sagittaria – 2 items.

Sago – 4 items.

Salix – 15 items, including The Explorer 1982 “Pussy Willows.”

Salvia – 5 items

Sambucus – 6 items, including Natural History Magazine 1982 “Respect Your Elders.”

Sandalwood – 3 items

Sanguinaria – 2 items

Sanseviera – 2 items

Sapindus – 2 items

Sapium – 1 item

Saponin – 2 items

Sapotaceae – 2 items

Sarracenia – 5 items, including Natural History 1983 “Cobras of the Pacific Northwest.”

Sassafras – 6 items, including Boston Herald 1927 “Sassafras Oil Defeats Ants.”

Sawdust – 5 items, including The Garden Magazine 1913 “Using Sawdust as a Fertilizer.”

Saxegothaea – 1 item

Schinus – 12 items, including The New York Times 1982 “Florida County Bans 3 Harmful Exotic Trees,” Palm Beach Post Times 1981 “Toxic Berry Masquerades as Pepper.”

Seaweed – 23 items, including The Sunday Times 1982 “Planting with a Pinch of Salt,” Boston Post 1932 “Seaweed Extract Used in Ice Cream.”

Sechium – 9 items, including The Gardeners’ Chronicle 1928 “The Choko or Cho Cho.”

Seeds – 18 items, including China Reconstructs 1981 “Best Lotus Seeds and Where They Grow.”

Senecio – 2 items

Sequoia – 17 items, including The Florida Times–Union 1942 “New Cloth is Made of Wool and Bark of Redwood Tree.”

Sesamum – 2 items

Shakespearean Plants – 8 items

Shellac – 3 items

Simmondsia – 26 items, including The New York Times 1975 “Oil From a Shrub Found in Desert May Save the Sperm Whale.”

Sisal – 16 items, including Natural History 1971 “The Great Sisal.”

Skin Poison – 23 items, including Science News Letter 1931 “Brazilian Wood Causes Skin Poisoning Like Ivy.”

Snake-Bite Remedy – 2 items

Snuff – 10 items, including Boston Globe 1986 “This stuff called snuff.”

Soap – 7 items, including The United States Daily 1930 “Shelled Nuts Form Soap when Glassed.”

Solanaceae – 1 item

Solanum – 15 items, including Science 1891 “The Egg–Plant.”

Soybean 1 – 57 items, including The Christian Science Monitor 1983 “Put a soybean in your tank.”

Soybean 2 – 26 items, including The Christian Science Monitor 1982 “Drought–resistant plants: the case of the hairy soybean.”

Soybean 3 – 58 items, including Boston Traveler 1943 “U.S. Now Biggest Soybean Grower,” Boston Traveler 1941 “Scientists Find Soybean Amazing.”

Sophora – 2 items

Sorghum – 12 items, including Christian Science Monitor 1978 “Old mills still producing sorghum molasses.”

Spartina – 2 items

Spartium – 2 items

Sphagnum – 8 items, including American Forestry 1918 “Sphagnum Moss for Surgical Dressings.”

Spices 1 – 20 items, including American Orchid Society Bulletin 1945 “Vanilla” by Oakes Ames, The Agricultural News 1909 “The Spices of the Tropics,” New York Herald Tribune 1941 “Spice Shortage.”

Spices 2 – 16 items, including Boston Globe 1981 “The Two Spice Brothers.”

Spinach – 6 items, including New York Times 1980 “The Spinach Viewpoint,” New York Times 1979 “Spinach Used to Create Solar Energy.”

Spirulina – 8 items, including r & d Mexico 1982 “Spirulina, a new and natural source of protein.”

Squash – 5 items, including New York Times 1980 “Winter Squash, Beyond the Pumpkin,” Horticulture 1944 “Squashes of Many Kinds,” Boston Globe 1981 “Squmpkins.”

Stachys – Gard. Chron. 1928 “The Chinese Artichoke,” The Garden Magazine 1918 “The New Japanese Artichokes.”

Starch – 19 items, including The American Naturalist 1875 “About Starch.”

Statistics – 9 items, including The United States Daily 1928 “August Crop Report.”

Sterculia – Science 1889 “The Kola–nut,” The Western Druggist 1895 “The Kola Nut,” The New Idea 1895 “The marvelous powers of the kola nut tested in the United States Army.”

Stevia – 6 items, including The Agriculture News 1905 “A New Sugar Plant,” The New Agriculture News “The Sweetest Plant Known,” The Garden 1918 “The Sweetest Plant Known.”

Stipa – 3 items.

Stock Poison – 33 items, including Canada Department of Agriculture 1954 “Poisonous Plants of the Canadian Prairies” (with a photograph of 2 dead cows in a field), New York Times 1968 “Scientists Attempt to Make Poison Weeds Less Toxic,” The Agriculture News 1912 “The Poisoning of Cattle by Sorghum,” The Agriculture News 1906 “Cattle Poisoned by Java Beans,” The Agriculture News 1918 “Plants Poisonous to Stock,” The Agriculture News 1918 “A Berry Poisonous to Fowls,” The New York Times 1971 “Scientists Puzzled by Cattle Disease.”

Strophanthus – Science in Review 1949 “Discovery of Cortisone–Yielding Plant Adds to the Great Advances Against Arthritis,” The New York Times 1949 “The Elixir of Life.”

Straw – The Times, London 1982 “Straw burning for fireplaces, and not fields,” The Times, London 1982 “Inflammable Farmers,” Boston Post 1927 ”Vast Riches in Burned Straw,” The Boston Globe 1927 “Ton of straw nets $250 in products.”

Strawberries – 9 items, including The Boston Post 1926 “$150.00 for one berry: Giant specimen said to clear complexion.”

Sugar 1 – 58 items, including Scientific American 1917 “In Unknown Sugardom,” Boston Post 1937 “Sugar–Iron used as aid in cancer,” Boston Traveler 1929 “Woman Chemist Finds New Source of Sugar,” Scientific American 1921 “The Story of Sugar,” The Boston Sunday Globe 1929 “America’s Sugar Bowl is Found in Florida.”

Sugar 2 – 41 items, including New York Times 1979 “Sugar Dispute an Issue Still to be Settled,” Christian Science Monitor 1980 “Rising price is sour news for sugar lovers,” Boston Globe 1927 “Home–grown sugar crop prospect as result of chemists’ discovery,” Boston Globe 1926 “Making Sugar,” Scientific American Supplement 1918 “Sugar Making in Cuba.”

Sugar 3 – 49 items, including Scientific American 1917 “Filling the Sugar Bowl,” Science 1889 ”Cultivation of Sugar in Persia,” Scientific Supplement 1918 “The Maple Tree Helps to Relieve Sugar Shortage.”

Sugar 4 – 47 items, including a series of articles on Cuba and Sugar from 1919, New York Times 1981 “A skirmish in ongoing sugar war,” The Agriculture News 1918 “Sugar as a Food.”

Sugar Substitute – 17 items, including The Boston Globe 1980 “Sweetening foods by using fructose,” The Wall Street Journal 1980 “Sugar makers stirred by push for fructose,” New York Times 1975 “A Sweetener Discovered by Accident.”

Sumac – 3 clippings.

Sunflower – 14 items, including Natural History 1984 “The Ant and the Sunflower,” The New York Times 1981 “Sunflower Emerging as a Commodity.”

Survival – 6 items, including Massachusetts Wildlife 1970 “Nature’s Salad Bowl,” The Sacramento Bee 1968 “90 Per Cent of Forest Plants are Termed ’Edible’.”

Sweet Potato – 23 items, including Boston Traveler 1938 “Sweet Potato Starch being Produced in South,” Boston Evening Transcript 1936 “Alcohol Yam Growing Encouraged in China.”

Symbiosis – 2 clippings.

Symphoricarpus – 3 clippings of photographs.

Symplocarpus – 3 clippings.

Syrups – 19 items, including The New York Times 1981 “New England Anticipates Maple Sugaring Time.”

 

 

Tabebuia – 1 item.

Tamarindus – 9 items, including Agriculture News 1908 “Uses of Tamarind Seeds.”

Tamarix – 6 items, including Science New Letter 1930 “Manna.”

Tannin – 24 items, including The Agriculture News 1913 “Wattle Bark,” Boston Globe 1982 “Hundreds in Miami flock to ’miracle tree’ for cures,” Nature Magazine 1924 “Tannin for Strengthening Leather.”

Tanning – 1 clipping.

Tapa – 4 items, including Field Museum News 1933 “Bark Cloth.”

Taraxacum – 12 items, including The New York Times 1983 “For Spring, Dandelion Greens,” Boston Globe 1980 “Nutrition in the Wilderness,” The Garden Magazine 1914 “Dandelions – to eat and drink.”

Taxodium – 3 items.

Taxus – 6 items.

Tea 1 (up to 1930s) – 38 items, including “Cup Reading” by Salada Tea Co., Scientific American 1918 “Tea–chest Manufacture in India,” Esquire 1937 “Plant of Heaven: Rescuing tea from women’s clubs, and restoring it to its rightful, warm–bellied, full flavored status,” Boston Traveler 1939 “History of Tea Trade is Interesting Story.”

Tea 2 (1940s–1970s) – 27 items, including New York Times 1972 “Trouble for Ceylonese Tea,” New York Times 1972 “Tea, the Staff of Pakistani Life,” New York Times 1976 “The Unsnobbish Way to Brew English Tea,” Pastimes 1975 “Tea: Lore, Legends and Layman’s Guide.”

Tea 3 (1980s –) – 28 items, including The New York Times 1983 “Finding the Rich Brew Called Irish Tea,” The New York Times 1983 “Boston’s Nonstop Tea Party.”

Tea Substitute – 5 clippings.

Teak – 5 clippings.

Tephrosia – The Agriculture News 1917 “Tephrosia purpurea as a Dye Plant,” The Agriculture News 1911 “A Glucoside from Tephrosia purpurea.” The Texas Horticulturalist – 15 selected issues, 1982 – 1983

Textiles – 11 items, including The Boston Globe 1983 “Robe from 1000 BC found on Greek Island.”

Theobroma – 11 items, including The Times, London, Oct. 4, 1980 “Couple accused of ’Chocolate Spying’ attempt,” Newsweek April 4, 1983 “America’s great chocolate binge.”

Thespesia – 1 clipping.

Thuja – 2 clippings.

Thymol – 7 items, including The Agriculture News 1915 “The Production of Thymol.”

Thymus – 4 items, including The New York Times 1980 “Thyme, the Versatile Scented Groundcover,” Boston Globe 1926 “Wild Thyme.”

Tilia – 4 clippings, including The Boston Globe 1927 “Basswood, Linden or Lime.”

Tillandsia – 6 items, including Scientific American 1916 “Spanish Moss,” New York Herald Tribune 1940 “Combing the Hair of the Jungle.”

Timber 1 – 9 items, including The New York Times 1981 “Timber Concerns Fail to Draw Bids,” Scientific American 1919 “The Wood Treatment Used in Denmark,” Christian Science Monitor 1973 “Using Every Splinter.”

Timber 2 – 38 items, including The Boston Globe 1982 “Timber theft becomes big problem,” Scientific American 1926 “Branding Timber by Machinery,” American Forests 1928 “How Long Will Our Sawtimber Last?,” Natural History 1938 “Green Gold.”

Tobacco 1 (up to 1920s) – 65 items, including Scientific American 1921 “The Fragrant Weed,” Boston Globe 1926 “Night Blooming Tobacco,” Poster–sized advertisement for Old Gold Cigarettes from 1929 (fragile condition), Nature Magazine 1924 “Tobacco – The Plant of Peace,” The Boston Evening Transcript 1928 “Tobacco Fashions.”

Tobacco 2 (1930s–1940s) – 41 items, including Science News Letter 1931 “Smoking found to dull man’s sense of taste,” New York Times 1937 “Tobacco Use Now Near 1917 Record,” The Saturday Evening Post 1935 “The World’s First Tobacco Advertisement,” The United States Daily 1930 “Cigarette Production to Date is Billion Ahead of Last Year.”

Tobacco 3 (1950s–1960s) – 12 items, including an oversized map of tobacco growing districts in the United States 1955 (folded).

Tobacco 4 – 28 items, including Agriculture Canada 1974 “Tobacco in Canada,” The Boston Globe 1982 “Does Everything Cause Cancer?,” American Scientist 1971 “The Health Menace of Tobacco,” The New York Times 1980 “Zimbabwe’s Tobacco Woes.”

Tomato – 37 items, including The Times (London) 1978 “Danes successfully cross tomato and potato,” The New York Times 1981 “Campbell Seeking a Better Tomato,” The Gardener’s Chronicle 1927 “History of the Tomato,” The Agriculture News 1918 “Utilization of Waste Tomato Seeds and Skins,” The Boston Globe 1982 “Confessions of a tomato freak.”

Torreya – The Botanical Gazette 1885 “Torreya taxifolia, Arnott.”

Touchardia – 3 clippings, including The Literary Digest 1918 “The World’s Strongest Fiber.”

Toxicodendron – The New York Times 1977 “Personal Health,” The Times 1983 “Ancient lacquer yields its secrets.”

Trachycarpus – 1 clipping.

Trapa – 4 clippings, including Horticulture 1942 “Water Chestnut Used for Food.”

Travel – 19 items, including Scientific Monthly 1928 “Botanizing on Barro Colorado Island, Panama,” Scientific Monthly 1929 “The Everglades,” The Garden Magazine 1913 “Curious History of the Cinnamon Vine,” The Garden Magazine 1923 “Travel Tales of a Plant Collector,” The Boston Globe 1974 “New Plant Life Found in Venezuela.”

Trees – 53 items, including The New York Times 1975 “How nature perpetuates trees: defenses against predators,” China Reconstructs 1980 “The Chinese Dove Tree,” Sundancer 1975 “Where to Find the Forests in California,” misc. pamphlets.

Tricholaena – 1 clipping of image.

Trifolium – The New York Times 1981 “A Lucky Crop Charms Millions,” The Boston Globe 1927 “Abloom in New England.”

Trillium – 1 clipping of image.

Triticale – 7 items, including Scientific American 1974 “Triticale,” The Financial Times 1976 “Out of the lab and onto your place: a revolutionary new grain.”

Tropaeolum – The Gardeners’ Chronicle 1923 “Tropaeolum Tuberosum.”

Tropical Products Institute Newsletter – #25 February 1983, #24 October 1982, #23 May 1982, #22 December 1981, #21 October 1981, #20 April 1981, #15 August 1979.

Truffles – 11 items, including The New York Times 1982 “Truffles: Why Pigs Can Sniff Them Out,” The New York Times 1980 “Fresh White Truffles Arrive from Italy,” The New York Times 1980 “Farm to Table, the High Price of Truffles,” Cosmopolitan 1981 “Truffles: The Sexy Delicacy.”

Turpentine – 10 items, including a small pamphlet entitled “Facts worth knowing about turpentine” by the National Turpentine and Rosin Bureau.

Typha – 10 items, including The New York Times 1979 “Cattails Studied as Energy Source,” Nature Magazine 1927 “The Versatile Cat–Tail.”

 

 

Ulmus – 9 clippings

Umbelliferae – 4 clippings

Uncaria – 1 clipping

Urginea – 3 clippings on its use as poison

Urtica – 3 clippings (nettle as wartime food and fabric)

Utricularia – 1 clipping (carnivorous bladderwort)

Vaccinium – 11 clippings and photocopies about blueberries

Valerianella – 3 clippings

Vanilla – 21 clippings and photocopies (2 copies of “Cheney’s true vanilla bean extract” advertisement)

Varnish – 3 clippings and correspondence from the Murphy Varnish company

Vegetable Ivory – 6 clippings

Vegetables I – 57 clippings and photocopies on diverse topics, including several on the nutritional value of vegetables, vegetables “new” to the American palate (such as broccoli and celtuce); also a short bibliography of literature on vegetable extracts from the U.S. Dept.

Vegetables II – 62 clippings and photocopies including many articles on the popularity of new produce (kiwis, artichokes, daikon, etc.); also two pamphlets, one from the International Board for Plant Genetic Resources and one from the Centro de Investigaciones Agricolas del Noroeste (Mexico)

Veneer – 2 clippings

Veratrum – 15 clippings, reprints, and photocopies as well as several typewritten notes from ancient and Renaissance herbals; primarily on hellebore’s pharmacological properties

Verbascum – 2 clippings and one typewritten citation

Verbena – 1 clipping

Vernacular Names – 5 clippings (letter from Margaret Armstrong defending vernacular names)

Veronica – 3 clippings

Viburnum – 5 clippings

Vicia – 4 clippings and a letter to Schultes asking him to identify an Iranian bean (id’d as Vicia faba)

Vigna – 2 clippings

Vinca rosea – 4 clippings and photocopies on its pharmacological effects; also 2 International Science and Engineering Fair reports by Isaac Bruck (Cary High School)

Vinegar – 6 clippings

Viola – 1 clipping

Virola – 3 clippings and 1 report from the Science Information Department of Smith, Kline, & French Co.

Vitamins I – 47 clippings, many from Science and Science–Supplement

Vitamins II – 53 clippings, brochures, and informational sheets; also a short bibliography on the subject of vitamins

 

 

Walnut – 36 clippings and a Swissair menu with a walnut image on the cover; also a clipping on “The Fighting Crickets of China.”

Water Vines – 1 clipping, 1 letter, and 1 citation.

Watermelon – 11 clippings and reproductions, primarily about the Citron watermelon.

Wax – 28 items, including 18 clippings, 1 commerce report, excerpts from articles, and handwritten article.

Weeds – 44 items, most of which are clippings.

Wheat – 41 items, most of which are clippings.

Wheat 2 – Article from Science Magazine, article from Natural History Magazine, article from Scientific American, technical bulletin, 36 other items, mostly clippings.

Wheat Substitute – 1 article from Scientific American Supplement entitled “Substitutes for Wheat: Employed in Making Bread for the French Army.”

Wine 1 (1930s–1960s) – “Vintage” article from Town & Country, New York Herald Tribune color map entitled “Wines of the Country,” article entitled “Wines from Florida Grapes” from Subtropical Gardening, a color pamphlet from Wine Wonderland in Naples, NY, a color pamphlet entitled “21 Wines for You from Italy,” color article from House Beautiful, color article on American wines, color article from Town & Country, 7 clippings.

Wine 2 – Color pamphlet from Widmer, Naples, NY, 23 clippings, color pamphlet with wine suggestions and recipes, Drink Book and Cookbook from the Paul Masson Wine Reader, article on wine from American Scientist magazine, Clip from Caminos del Aire, “Toast of the Season” article, article from Destinations.

Wine 3 – 17 clippings, Kappy’s Liquors Catalog & Dictionary of Fine Wines, Time Magazine article “American Wine: There’s Gold in Them Thar Grapes,” “New Grapes and Wine in Eastern North America” in Wine East.

Wood 1 – 16 clippings, note to editors of the International Paper Company enclosing the Security Analysis Meeting remarks by the Vice President of Wood Products and Resources Groups.

Wood 2 – Article from Science Magazine, 30 clippings, article entitled “Nazis in the Woodpile,” article from American Forests and Forest Life, “Woods Used by the Ancient Egyptians.”

Wood Pulp – 21 clippings.

Xanthoceras – 2 clippings

Xanthorrhoea – 4 clippings.

Xanthosoma – 2 clippings.

Xylose – 2 clippings

Yeast –19 clippings, Fiber Year Taste Sample in plastic bag.

Yucca – 26 clippings.

Zamia – 2 clippings.

Zantedeschia – 2 clippings.

Zanthoxylum – 1 clipping.

Zea 1 – 24 clippings.

Zea 2 – 14 clippings, Smithsonian article entitled “A Wild Relative May Give Corn Perennial Genes.”

Zea 3 – 25 clippings, Science Magazine (American Association for the Advancement of Science) entitled “From Teosinte to Maize: the Catastrophic Sexual Transmutation.”

Zelkova – 3 clippings.

Zizania – 14 clippings, article from The Beaver entitled “Wild Rice Harvest.”

Zizyphus – Botanical information from Firewood Crops, 2 clippings.

Zostera – 1 clipping.