The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . JOURNAL OF RURAL ART AND RURAL TASTE. Cljt §kk itnlr l^rnHjirrts of InrtirulturL RETROSPECTIVE glance over the journey we have traveled, is often both in-structive and encouraging. We not only learn what we have really accomplish-ed, but we are better able to overcome the obstacles that lie in our onward way, byreviewing the difficulties already overcome. The progress of the last five years in Horticulture, has been a remarkable one inthe United States. The rapid increase of population, and the accumulation of capi-tal, has very nat


The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . JOURNAL OF RURAL ART AND RURAL TASTE. Cljt §kk itnlr l^rnHjirrts of InrtirulturL RETROSPECTIVE glance over the journey we have traveled, is often both in-structive and encouraging. We not only learn what we have really accomplish-ed, but we are better able to overcome the obstacles that lie in our onward way, byreviewing the difficulties already overcome. The progress of the last five years in Horticulture, has been a remarkable one inthe United States. The rapid increase of population, and the accumulation of capi-tal, has very naturally led to the multiplication of private gardens and country seats, andthe planting of orchards and market gardens, to an enormous extent. The facilitywith which every man may acquire land in this country, naturally leads to the forma-tion of separate and independent homes, and the number of those who are in somedegree interested in the cultui-e of the soil is thus every day being added to. Thevery fact, however, that a large proportion of these little


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