The botany of desire: a plant's-eye view of the world (30 page)

Donne, John

Doors of Perception, The
(Huxley)

Downing, Andrew Jackson

drugs:

effects of

war on

see also
alcohol; cannabis; entheogens; hallucinogens; mescaline; opium; peyote

Dumas, Alexandre
père

Dutch:
see
Holland

Eden, Garden of

Eleusis, Mysteries of

Eliot, George

Embarrassment of Riches, The
(Schama)

Emerson , Ralph Waldo

endorphins

England:

Gothic gardens in

and Irish famine

potato debate in

romantic poets in

tulips in

entheogens

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

ergot

Eskimos, consciousness alteration among

Euripides

Europe:

Black Death in

potato growing in (
see also
France; Germany; Ireland; Russia)

evolution:
see
artificial selection; coevolution; mutation; natural selection; sexual selection

Fall of the Great Garden-Whore, the Villain-Goddess Flora, The

famine:
see
potato famine

farming:
see
agriculture

fennel, stinking (“Johnnyweed”)

fertilizers

Flora (goddess)

Flora’s Fool’s Cap, or Scenes from the Remarkable Year 1637 when one Fool hatched another, the Idle Rich lost their wealth and the Wise lost their senses,

floral attraction

flowers:

adaptive traits of

canonical

coevolution of

goddess of

and human desire for beauty

indifference to

practical uses for

symbolism of

see also
angiosperms; bulbs; cannabis; gardens; plants; pollination; roses; tulips

flying ointments

Food and Drug Administration, U.S. (FDA)

forgetting, psychological importance of

Forsline, Phil

Forsyth, Danny

Fort Wayne (Indiana)

France:

potatoes in

romantic poets in

roses in

tulips in

Franklin, Benjamin

Frazer, James

Frederick the Great

fruits:

coevolutionary role of

foraging for

forbidden

in gardens

see also
apples

fungi:

cultivated by ants

potato blight

psychoactive

fungicides

Galápagos Islands

Gallagher, Catherine

Garden of Eden

gardens:

aesthetic appeal of

as conspicuous displays

as ecosystems

in England

experimentation in

and human desire for control

insects’ roles in

produce from

psychoactive plants in

sexual selection in

wildness within

see also
agriculture; cannabis; coevolution; flowers; plants; potatoes; tulips

Garnet Chile potato

genetic engineering:

and organic farming

of plants

of seeds

see also
Monsanto corporation; NewLeaf potatoes; pollution, biological

Genetic Use Restriction Technologies (GURT)

Geneva (New York):
see
Plant Genetic Resources Unit

Gerard, John

Germany, potatoes in

Gheel ende Root van Leyden tulip, price of

Ginsberg, Allen

global warming

Golden Bough, The
(Frazer)

Golden Delicious:

ancestors of

as commercial apple parent

original tree

Goody, Jack

grafting, history of

Grand Army Plaza (New York)

grapes

see also
wine

Great Apple Rush

“greater fool” theory

Greeks, ancient:

concept of true beauty

and fruit tree grafting

religious outlook of

views on intoxicants

see also
Apollo; Dionysus; Euripides; Herodotus; Plato; Plutarch

Grinspoon, Lester

hallucinogens

Harrison, Jane

hashish

see also
cannabis

Hawkeye apple

Heath, Mike

hemp

see also
cannabis

Herbert, Zbigniew

herbicides:

genetic resistance to

in potato farming

Herodotus

heterozygosity:

of apples

of tulips

Hiatt, Jesse

History and Social Influence of the Potato, The
(Salaman)

Hjelle, Dave

Holland:

cannabis cultivation in

tulip cultivation in

see also
tulipomania

Hope, Bob

How the Mind Works
(Pinker)

Howlett, Allyn

human desires:
see
beauty; control; intoxication; sweetness

Huxley, Aldous

hybridization:

of apples

in gardens

of potatoes

of tulips

Idaho, potato farming in

imagination

Coleridgean idea of

natural history of human

Imperial Botanic Garden (Vienna)

Incas, potato cultivation by

Indiana, John Chapman in

Indians, American:
see
Native Americans

Indo-Europeans

Innocent VIII, Pope

insecticides

see also Bacillus thuringiensis
(Bt); DDT; pesticides

insects:

cannabinoid receptors in

as pest controls

resistance to Bt in

role in pollination (
see also
aphids; bees; Colorado potato beetle; pests)

intellectual property, plant genes as

intoxication:

in animals

classical Greek views on

effects of

human desire for

neuroscience of

and plant chemistry

see also
alcohol; cannabis; drugs; entheogens

Ireland:

famine in

potato growing in

nineteenth-century peasant life in

Johnny Appleseed:
see
Chapman, John

Johnnyweed (stinking fennel)

Jonagold apple

Jonathan apple

Jones, William Ellery

Kazakhstan

Keats, John

Ladurie, Le Roy

Lady apple

lale devri
(Tulip Era)

laudanum

Lenson, David

Louis XVI, king of France

Ludlow, Fitz Hugh

Lumper potato

Macintosh apple

Malthus, Thomas Robert

Malus domestica

see also
apples

Malus sieversii

Mansfield (Ohio)

Marie Antoinette

Marietta (Ohio)

Marihuana Reconsidered
(Grinspoon)

marijuana:
see
cannabis

Marx, Karl

Massachusetts Horticultural Society