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Title
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Book of Fruits, Being a Descriptive Catalogue of the Most Valuable Varieties
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Caption
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Not just animals face extinction. Humans have driven an estimated 600 plant species to extinction since the 1750s, along with thousands of locally cultivated varieties of staple food crops, from potatoes to apples. Once-popular New England apple varieties like the Pickman Pippen (see above) have since disappeared as higher-yielding and aesthetically uniform apple varieties used in industrial agriculture have come into favor. Scientists now express concern about our reliance on an ever-smaller number of plant varieties cultivated for human consumption, as this leaves large portions of our food supply vulnerable to be wiped out by a singular disease or pest, like during the Irish Potato Famine in the 1840s.
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Creator
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Robert Manning
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Date Created
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1838
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Publisher
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Ives & Jewett
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Place of Publication
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Salem, Massachusetts
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Rights
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No Known Copyright
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Bibliographic Citation
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Robert Manning. Book of Fruits, Being a Descriptive Catalogue of the Most Valuable Varieties of the Pear, Apple, Peach, Plum & Cherry, for New England Culture. 1st ser. Salem: Ives & Jewett, 1838. 1926 Coll M359bo
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Filename
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exh-vanishing_Manning_001.jpeg
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exh-vanishing_Manning_002.jpeg
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Case Number
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Causes and Consequences of Extinction
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Item Number
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8
