Horticultural beginnings -- Trees for the High Plains -- Horticulture for home and community -- Toward "a new phase of civilization" -- Science and its application to horticulture -- Creating home on the range -- Limits of dry-land horticulture -- Forging new paths in ornamental horticulture -- Collecting and creating hardy plants -- Federal engagement in horticulture -- The Cheyenne Horticultural Field Station -- Horticulture and community
