PHS History: Resources

See especially article beginning on p. 53.

1999 & ff. Report for 2009 issued as pages 15-37 of Green Scene, vol. 37, no. 6 (November-December 2009).
No Annual Report was issued in 2016 (July 1, 2015 - June 30, 2016).

Detailed history of PHS's first 100 years. Most of the text consists of extracts from PHS's Minute Books.

This ongoing collection consists of finding aids created for the archival holdings of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1827- ). Included are guides to historical materials such as the PHS minute books, administrative records, and PHS initiatives and programs for events including the Philadelphia Flower Show and Philadelphia Green. Finding aids also cover the extensive image file collections, glass slides, and ephemera connected with the activities of the Society.

Illustrated catalog of a bicentennial exhibit of books, chiefly from the PHS McLean Library. Includes a horticultural chronology, 1682-1876 by Joseph Ewan; and horticultural places of historic interest in Philadelphia and vicinity.

Members' magazine of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, 1972-2014. Full text online. Continued by GROW magazine.

Members magazine of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. Continues The Green Scene.

18 volumes of minute books digitized. Use in conjunction with Boyd's History of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, 1827-1927. Volumes through 1927 are mostly handwritten; final volume is typewritten.

Use this landing page to search text on all publications that PHS has uploaded to the Internet Archive. This includes The Green Scene, PHS Yearbooks and other PHS publications. Use the "search this collection" feature and filter for text contents.

Annual yearbook, 1925-1998. ( None published 1927-1928, 1961-1963). Annual summary of PHS's activities. Continued by Annual Reports, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.