Research tool useful for studying a small backyard garden or a city's park system or a large cultural landscape in Canada up to 1950. Sources include books, articles, and websites and focus on such major subjects as reference works, travel literature, ornamental gardening, exhibitions, floras, and prominent nursery men and women, botanists, landscape architects, general horticulture, nurseries, botanical gardens, parks, railway gardening, associations, and significant periodicals.