POLLEN AND PHYTOLITH ANALYSIS OF SIX SOIL SAMPLES FROM FLOWER GARDENS ASSOCIATED WITH GEORGE WASHINGTON’S PLANTATION AT MOUNT VERNON, VIRGINIA
Author(s): Linda Scott Cummings; Chad Yost
Year: 2007
Summary
Four samples of soil from eighteenth century flower gardens associated with Mount
Vernon, George Washington’s plantation home, were submitted for pollen and phytolith
analysis. Two of the samples of soil are derived from a garden bed dating prior to the 1780's.
The other two samples of soil are from a rectangular-shaped garden that dates slightly later
than the garden mentioned previously to sometime during the 1780's to the 1790's. Analysis of
the four samples of soil was conducted to identify the types of decorative and subsistencerelated
plants grown in the garden by identifying pollen and phytoliths present.
Cite this Record
POLLEN AND PHYTOLITH ANALYSIS OF SIX SOIL SAMPLES FROM FLOWER GARDENS ASSOCIATED WITH GEORGE WASHINGTON’S PLANTATION AT MOUNT VERNON, VIRGINIA. Linda Scott Cummings, Chad Yost. 2007 ( tDAR id: 379541) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8Q81CJ5
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