Taking root : the nature writing of William and Adam Summer of Pomaria / edited by James Everett Kibler, Jr. ; foreword by Wendell Berry.

The horticultural writings of brothers William and Adam Summer, of Pomaria, South Carolina, who established the Pomaria Nursery in 1840.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 07, 2017).

Machine generated contents note: [A Winter Reverie] -- Wish -- Jerusalem Artichoke (Helianthus Tuberosus, Linn) -- Culture of the Sweet Potatoe -- Season: Some Thoughts Grouped after Spending a Day in the Country -- Natural Angling, or Riding a Sturgeon -- Season -- Day on the Mohawk -- Farm Management; or Practical Hints to a Young Beginner -- Vegetable Shirt-Tail; or, An Excuse for Backing Out -- Autumn -- Winter Green: A Tale of My School Master -- Chapter on Live Fences -- Report on Wheat -- Misletoe -- Address Delivered before the Southern Central Agricultural Society at Macon, Georgia, October 4 [20], 1852 -- Character of the Pomologist -- Flower Garden [I] -- Plants Adapted to Soiling in the South -- Plant a Tree -- Plea for the Birds -- Southern Architecture -- Location of Homes -- Rural Adornment, & c -- Plant Peas -- Forest Trees of the South. -- No. 1 -- Forest Trees of the South. No. 2. -- the Live Oak -- (Quercus sempervirens) -- Forest Trees of the South. [No. 3.] the Willow Oak. Quercus Phellos -- One Hour at the New York Farmer's Club -- Flowers -- Satisfactory Results from Systematic Farming -- True Farmer-Planter -- Crysanthemum -- Saving Seed -- Roger Sherman's Plow -- "The Earth Is Wearing Out" -- Rare Present. -- Carolina Oranges -- Agricultural Humbugs and Fowl Fancies -- Short Chapter on Milk Cowsk -- Plea for Broomsedge -- Visit from April -- We Cultivate Too Much Land -- Proper Implements for Composting Manures: A Picture in Relief -- Editorial Drive: What We Saw during One Morning -- What Should Be the Chief Crops of the South? -- Northern Horses in Southern Cities -- Scuppernong Wine -- Good Native Hedge Plant for the South -- Soap Suds -- Best Mode of Stopping Ditches and Washes -- Cherries -- Amelanchier: New Southern Fruit -- China Berries -- Barefooted Notes on Southern Agriculture. No I -- Chinese Sugar Cane -- Cows and Butter: A Delightful Theme -- Neglect of Family Cemeteries -- Destruction of Forests and Its Influence upon Climate & Agriculture -- New and Rare Trees of Mexico -- United States Patent Office Reports, and Government Impositions -- Barefooted Notes on Southern Agriculture. No III -- Guardians of the Patent Office -- New and Rare Trees and Plants of Mexico. No 2 -- Transplanted Pleasure -- China Roses and Other Hedge-Plants in the South -- Barefooted Notes on Southern Agriculture. No IV -- Farm Economies -- Hill-Side Ditching -- Landscape Gardening -- New and Cheap Food for Bees -- Profession of Agriculture -- "Bell Ringing" -- "Spare the Birds" -- Essay on Reforesting the Country -- Spanish Chesnuts, Madeira Nuts, etc. -- Grape: Culture and Pruning -- Advantages of Trees -- "How to Get Up Hill" -- Barefooted Notes on Southern Agriculture. No VI -- Sheep Husbandry -- Dogs vs. Sheep -- Fences -- Sweets for the People -- Barefooted Notes on Southern Agriculture. No VIII -- Peeps over the Fence [1] -- Beneficial Effects of Flower Culture -- Peeps over the Fence [2] -- Fortunes Double Cape Jessamine: (Gardenia Fortunii) -- Wood Economy -- Peeps over the Fence [3] -- Home as a "Summer Resort" -- Frankincense a Humbug and Cure for Saddle Galls -- Who Are Our Benefactors? -- Peeps over the Fence [4] -- Mrs. Rion's Southern Florist -- Dew and Frost -- Flower Garden [II] -- Farmer Gripe and the Flowers -- Pea Vine Hay.

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