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A Postmodern Landscape, Thomas J. Mickey
A Louisiana Plantswoman: Margie Yates Jenkins, Gayna B. Veltman
A Louisiana Plantswoman: Margie Yates Jenkins, Gayna B. Veltman
LSU Master's Theses
This biographical study of the development of Marge Yates Jenkins into Louisiana's pre-eminent plantswoman examines the issues of culture and regional history, particularly the history of the horticultural industry in Louisiana. It traces how a self-taught botanist overcame the obstacles of gender and post-war depression to become an innovator in the nursery business, experimenting with native plants of the Southeast, as well as exotics imported from as far away as New Zealand. Her experiments and the plants that she introduced to the trade would eventually change the selection of plants used in the landscape industry in the Gulf Coast region. …