3 collections related to Horticulture

The Douglas Sanders Slides and Papers consist of materials gathered from Dr. Sanders's office on the campus of North Carolina State University. Over half of the materials consist of 35mm color photographic slides used by Dr. Sanders in his research, teaching, and presentations. Douglas Sanders was a professor of horticultural science at North Carolina State University beginning in 1970. He received his bachelor's degree in 1965 from Michigan State University, and his master’s degree and doctorate in 1967 and 1970 respectively from the University of Minnesota. His accomplishments included the establishment of the N.C. Vegetable Growers Association, the introduction of numerous new vegetable technologies (drip irrigation, plasticulture, precision seeding), and the introduction of new crops to North Carolina, including asparagus, broccoli, sweet onions and leaf lettuce. He served in various positions of the American Society for Horticultural Science. He was named a fellow of that organization in 1992 and received its Outstanding International Horticulturist Award in 2006. Dr. Sanders died on April 17, 2006. Less

The English Manuscript Herbarium, circa 1836, contains five volumes of 208 specimens including flowers, grasses, ferns, and mosses. The collection was gathered by an unknown individual but is organized according to John Lindley’s The Natural System of Botany. Lindley was a lifelong botanist who served at the Horticultural Society of London, now the Royal Horticultural Society, taught botany at London University, and published extensively on botany and horticulture. Less