Best known for her immensely popular "Gardner's Kalendar," the first American treatise on gardening, Martha Daniell Logan earned a reputation not only as a woman of letters but also as a savvy businesswoman and a gifted horticulturist. Logan's writings are an essential source for information about women's culture in the colonial South. Her treatise on gardening, for example, not only describes the sort of work expected of women in the colonial South but also expresses many shared cultural values. Furthermore, Logan's treatise and letters must be viewed in the context of the immense interest in botany and scientific classification that arose on both sides of the Atlantic in the mid eighteenth century. Logan's writing and gardening allowed her access to some of the most influential horticulturists of her day, and her exchange of plants and letters with such well-known figures as John Bartram placed her at the forefront...