Current Projects

Current Projects

Classes

• History of Horticulture
• Tropical Horticulture

Papers

• The Cucurbits of Mediterranean Antiquity: Identification of Taxa from Ancient Images and Descriptions
• Rubus Iconography: Antiquity to the Renaissance
• Jonah and the "Gourd" at Nineveh: Consequences of a Classic Mistranslation
• Plant Exploration: From Queen Hatshepsut to Sir Joseph Banks
• On Tampering with Nature
• Consumer evaluation and quality measurement of fresh-cut slices of ‘Fuji’, ‘Golden Delicious’, ‘GoldRush’, and ‘Granny Smith’ apples
• First Known Image of Cucurbita in Europe, 1503–1508 [Annals of Botany 98: 41–47, 2006]
• Caravaggio's Fruit: A Mirror on Baroque Horticulture [Chronica 44(4)]
• The Cucurbit Images (1515–1518) of the Villa Farnesina, Rome
• Erotic Use of Lagenaria in Renaissance Art
• Early Evidence for the Culinary Use of Squash Flowers in Italy [Chronica 45(2)]
• The First Images of Maize in Europe
• Caravaggio's Fruit

Presentations

• Art as a Source of Information on Horticultural Technology
• Jonah and the “Gourd” at Nineveh
• Iconography of Solanaceae: Antiquity to the 17th Century
• Apricot Iconography
• Plant Exploration: From Queen Hatshepsut to Sir Joseph Banks
• Fruits of the Bibles
• History of Herbals
• Cupid and Psyche
• The Fruits of Caravaggio
• Origin of Fruits and Fruit Breeding
• Horticulture, Horticultural Science & 100 Years of ASHS
• Introducing Adagio: A Slow-bolting Arugula

Websites

• Hoosier Botanicals^TM
• Hoosier Fresh^TM
• PRI Apple Disease Resistant Apple Breeding Program
• Midwest Apple Improvement Association
• Festoons in the Loggia of Cupid and Psyche painted by Giovanni di Udine
• Birds in the Loggia of Cupid and Psyche
• Plant Image
• Grandes Heures d'Anne de Bretagne

Cultivar Releases

• 'Adagio': A Slow-Bolting Arugula
• Green Jade pear
• Ambrosia pear