The first number of American Homes and Gardens, a magazine published by Munn & Co., in New York, contains a profusely illustrated article on “Notable American Homes,” by Barr Farree.

Many of the foods in today’s American diet have roots in Native American culture. Foods like corn, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, squash, pumpkins, beans, tapioca, avocados and 47 kinds of native ...

HOME & GARDEN. By Joe Eaton and Ron Sullivan, Special to The Chronicle Oct 21, 2009 ... The American Meadow Garden: Creating a Natural Alternative to the Traditional Lawn" (Timber Press; ...

Take a trip back in time with a Gen Xer who knows exactly what American homes looked like in the 1980s. They’re in alphabetical order and something every neighborhood home had in common.

The Garden Conservancy has released its beautiful coffee-table volume documenting "Outstanding American Gardens" - including two in Pottersville, NJ.

This article was originally published with the title “ American Homes and Gardens--The New Magazine ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 93 No. 1 (July 1905), p. 4 doi:10.1038 ...

Although not American, Albius, who was enslaved as a youth and living on the French colony island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean, is responsible for the worldwide distribution of vanilla.

HOME & GARDEN. The story of the American front porch. ... Jackson Downing, a prominent landscape designer, and architect, created some of the first design styles unique to American architecture.

A member of the birch family, one of the American hornbeam’s most distinctive features is its smooth, slate-gray trunk and branches that look as though there are muscles flexing underneath the bark.