. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 876 LANDRETH LANDSCA PE GARDENING years. At a subsequent date be way made president of the Philadelphia Society fur the Promotion of Agricul- ture, and vice-president of the United States Agricul- tural Society, and became an active member of many 'Other organizations. His literary labors included the publicati
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 876 LANDRETH LANDSCA PE GARDENING years. At a subsequent date be way made president of the Philadelphia Society fur the Promotion of Agricul- ture, and vice-president of the United States Agricul- tural Society, and became an active member of many 'Other organizations. His literary labors included the publication of the "Illustrated Floral Magazine," started in 1832, and an advanced work for that period. At a later date he wrote much upon husbandry, his graceful style as a writer and bis technical knowledge of the subject making his views of much value in the progress of the industry. He edited an American edition of George W. Johnson's "A Dictionary of Modern Gardening," a volume of G35 pages, published at Philadelphia in 1647. In 184? the Landreth nursery was removed to Blooms- dale, where Mr. Landreth established what is believed "to be the most complete seed-farm in the United States, and where he planted an arboretum which perhaps stands unequaled in this country in the development of its trees. He was an early breeder of tbe Channel Island cattle, then styled Alderneys, and was among the earliest man- ufacturers of mowing and reaping machinery. In 1872-73 ihe experimented in steam-plowing with a Scotch engine, and in the following year with an American engine. Subsequently, steam-digging and steam-chopping were â experimented with at Bloomsdale, and many improve- ments produced in the machine shop of that model farm. David Landreth lived until 1880 in the enjoyment and â care of the business which had been so much developed in bis hands, and wbicb bad reached almost its hun- dredth year. The firm is now one of the thirty cente- nary firms in the Unite
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