Bibliography/Further Reading List
Primary Sources
Contributor. “An Arbor Day.” San Diego Union, Saturday Morning September 28, 1885.
Contributor. “Arbor Day.” San Diego Daily Bee, Tuesday February 21, 1888.
Contributor. “Arbor Day.” San Diego Union, Friday Morning February 18, 1887.
Contributor. “Arbor Day.” San Diego Union, Monday Morning April 25, 1892.
Contributor. “Arbor Day.” San Diego Union, Tuesday Morning January 31, 1893.
Contributor. “Arbor Day.” San Diego Union, Wednesday Morning March 19, 1902.
Contributor. “Arbor Day Celebrated.” San Diego Daily Bee, Friday February 24, 1888.
Contributor. “Arbor Day Date.” San Diego Union, Tuesday Morning October 12, 1886.
Contributor. “Arbor Day: How It Was Observed Here, Hundreds of Spectators.” San Diego Union, Saturday Morning February 27, 1892.
Contributor. “Arbor Day Law.” San Diego Union, Saturday Morning November 27, 1886.
Contributor. “Arbor Day Observed.” San Diego Union, Sunday Morning March 2, 1890.
Contributor. “Arbor Day: Pleasing Ceremonies At The Various Schools.” San Diego Union, Tuesday Morning February 22, 1894.
Contributor. “Arbor Day, Schools.” San Diego Union, Wednesday Morning April 16, 1890.
Contributor. “Arbor Day, Women’s Civic Engagement.” San Diego Daily Bee, Thursday February 16, 1888.
Contributor. “California Arbor Day in San Diego.” San Diego Union, Sunday Morning November 28, 1886.
Contributor. “California Arbor Day Society Meeting.” San Diego Union, Wednesday Morning January 5, 1887.
Contributor. “City Notes: Arbor Day.” San Diego Union, Friday Morning March 5, 1897.
Contributor. “Civic and Vicinity: Arbor Day.” San Diego Union, Sunday Morning November 28, 1886.
Contributor. “In General: Arbor Day.” San Diego Union, Tuesday Morning April 8, 1890.
Contributor. “In General: Arbor Day.” San Diego Weekly Union, Thursday February 4, 1892.
Contributor. “Park Improvement: Arbor Day.” San Diego Union, Tuesday Morning May 5, 1896.
Contributor. “The Arbor Day Program: The Park Committee.” The Evening Tribune San Diego, Monday February 29, 1904.
Contributor. “The Flume Celebration: Some Valuable Information From A Well-Known Citizen.” San Diego Union, Thursday Morning February 7, 1889.
Contributor. “San Marcos, Arbor Day.” San Diego Union, Tuesday Morning April 29, 1891.
Contributor. “Weekly Bulletin: Arbor Day.” San Diego Union, Monday Morning January 27, 1903.
Marston, Mary Gilman. George White Marston: A Family Chronicle. Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1956. Hathi Trust https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31822008190787&view=1up&seq=21.
M.B.C. “A Practical Use of Park: As a Means of Familiarizing the Young With Study of Botany.” The San Diego Union (San Diego, CA) November 7, 1902.
M.B.C. “Birthday of Plaza Palms: The Trees Were Put in the Ground Five Years Ago-Largest Number of Fine Specimens in the State.” The San Diego Union (San Diego, CA) January 29, 1903.
M.B.C. “Charming View From The Park: Many a Journey Is Made Across the Sea to Find Something Less Pretty.” The San Diego Union (San Diego, CA) November 23, 1902.
M.B.C. “A Park’s Value To San Diego: Expert Opinion as to the Unusual Worth of Such an Institution.” The San Diego Union (San Diego, CA), October 13, 1902.
M.B.C. “Functions of Public Parks: A Correspondent Writes of Their Uses and Possibilities.” The San Diego Union (San Diego, CA), October 9, 1902.
M.B.C. “Mr. Parsons’ Impressions Of The Big Park: What The Eminent Landscape Architect Had To Say Of It After A Most Critical Study of Its Outlines.” The San Diego Union (San Diego, CA), January 2, 1903.
M.B.C. “Mr. Parsons The Architect: Geo. W. Marston Announces His Choice of Men for City Park Improvements.” The Evening Tribune San Diego (San Diego, CA), October 21, 1902.
M.B.C. “Music In The Public Parks: Now Generally Conceded to Be an All-Important Feature.” The San Diego Union (San Diego, CA), October 17, 1902.
M.B.C. “Native Plants In The Park: Plenty of Them to Be Found–A Cactus Garden Proposed.” The San Diego Union (San Diego, CA) October 15, 1902.
M.B.C. “Nature’s Flowers On The Park: They Gave Much Delight to Landscape Architect Parsons.” The San Diego Union (San Diego, CA) January 25, 1903.
M.B.C. “Parks And Good Citizenship: The Former as a Growing Necessity to the Latter.” The San Diego Union (San Diego, CA) November 2, 1902.
M.B.C. “Parks As Art Influences: An Interesting Book on the Improvement of Towns and Cities.” The San Diego Union (San Diego, CA), November 16, 1902.
M.B.C. “Park Making A Fine Art: The Equipment of a First Class Landscape Gardener.” The San Diego Union (San Diego, CA), October 24, 1902.
M.B.C. “Pleased With The Selection: Park Improvement Committee Delighted With the Report Sent Back by George W. Marston.” The San Diego Union (San Diego, CA), October 22, 1902.
M.B.C. “San Diego’s Advantages: A Correspondent Unhesitatingly Declared That They Are of the Best.” The San Diego Union (San Diego, CA), October 6, 1902.
M.B.C. “The East Side Of The Park: Vegetation Soil and Contour Differ From Those of the West.” The San Diego Union (San Diego, CA) May 10, 1903.
M.B.C. “Tree Planting In Brickyard Canyon: What Has Been Accomplished by R. M. Hubbard in the Past Four Years.” The San Diego Union (San Diego, CA) June 3, 1903.
M.B.C. “United Action For City Parks: The Committees in Charge of the Project Are Meeting With Success.” The San Diego Union (San Diego, CA), October 29, 1902.
Nolen, John. “Planning Public Parks and Recreation Centers,” article sent to A. S. Hill, San Diego Board of Park Commissioners.” In Amero Collection, San Diego Historical Society Research Archives. March 23, 1926.
Parsons, Samuel. “Nature has already done much.” San Diego History Center. San Diego Union March 20,1903. https://sandiegohistory.org/archives/amero/parsons/parsons16/.
Sessions, Kate. The Complete Writings of Kate Sessions in California Garden 1909-1939. Ed. Barbara Schillreff Jones. San Diego: San Diego Floral Association, 1998.
Sessions, Kate. “Romneya Coulteri, or Matilija Poppy.” San Diego Floral Association: California Garden, Centennial Compilation 1909-2009. San Diego, San Diego Floral Association, 2009.
Secondary Sources
Arbor Day Foundation, History of Arbor Day, Arbor Day Foundation, 2021.
Carter, Nancy Carol. “The Trees of Balboa Park.” The Journal of San Diego History.
Coates, Peter. Nature. Western Attitudes Since Ancient Times. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998.
Cohen J. Daniel, and Roy Rosenzweig. Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
Hayden, Dolores. The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History. Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1995.
Macchio, Melanie. “John Nolen and San Diego’s Early Residential Planning in the Mission Hills Area.” The Journal of San Diego.
MacPhail, Elizabeth C. Kate Sessions Pioneer Horticulturist (San Diego: San Diego Historical Society, 1976).
Morrison, Jo. “Connecting With Nature Through Technology.” Calvium, 2019.
Popova, Maria. “Alexander von Humboldt and the Invention of Nature: How One of the Last True Polymaths Pioneered the Cosmos of Connections,” (December 7, 2015).
San Diego EarthWorks, “About San Diego Earthworks,” San Diego EarthWorks Creating a Clean, Health, Prosperous Future,” (2021). https://www.earthdayweb.org/SDEW_About.html
San Diego History Center. “George White Marston (1850-1946).” San Diego History Center.
Understanding Nature, Environmental History, and Environmental Awareness
Secondary Source Book Further Reading:
Anderson, Kat. Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California’s Natural Resources. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.
Blackburn, Thomas C., and Kat Anderson. Before the Wilderness: Environmental Management by Native Californians. Ballena Press Anthropological Papers ; No. 40. Menlo Park, CA: Ballena Press, 1993.
Chung, Sue Fawn. Chinese in the Woods: Logging and Lumbering in the American West. Asian American Experience. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015.
Deverell, William, and Greg. Hise. Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles. History of the Urban Environment. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005.
Farmer, Jared. Trees in Paradise: The Botanical Conquest of California. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2013.
Grossman, Elizabeth. High Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxins, and Human Health. Washington: Island Press, 2006.
Isenberg, Andrew C. Mining California: An Ecological History. 1st ed. New York: Hill and Wang, 2005.
Langston, Nancy. Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: The Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West. Weyerhaeuser Environmental Book. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995.
Saylor, Michael J. The Mobile Wave. Boston: Da Capo Press, 2012.
Speece, Darren Frederick. Defending Giants: The Redwood Wars and the Transformation of American Environmental Politics. Weyerhaeuser Environmental Book. 2017.
Tyrrell, Ian R. True Gardens of the Gods: Californian-Australian Environmental Reform, 1860-1930. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1999.
Wagenknecht, Louise. White Poplar, Black Locust. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003.