. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. HORTICULTURE HORTICULTURE 759 is now remembered in the in- teresting genus Hosackia, one of the Leguminoste. A botanic garden was established at Charleston, S. C, about 1804, and one in Maryland about the same time. T
. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. HORTICULTURE HORTICULTURE 759 is now remembered in the in- teresting genus Hosackia, one of the Leguminoste. A botanic garden was established at Charleston, S. C, about 1804, and one in Maryland about the same time. The Botanic Gar- den at Cambridge, Mass., was begun in 1805, an institution which, together with tbe Pro- fessorship of Natural History at Cambridge, was fouiultr-d largely through the efforts of the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture. The society subscribed $500 for the purpose, and raised more by subscription. Early General Writings. â The progress of Horticul- ture may be traced in the books devoted to the subject. The earliest writings did not separate Horticulture from agriculture. The only work exclusively devoted to agri- cultural matters which ap- peared in America before the Revolution seems to have been the "Essays upon Field- Husbandry," begun in 1748 and completed in 1759, by Rev. Jared Eliot, of Killingworth, Conn., grandson of the famous apostle Eliot. (See Eliot.) "There are sundry books on husbandry wrote in England," said Eliot, in his pre- face. "Having read all on that subject I could obtain; yet such is the difference of climate and Method of Management between them and us, arising from Causes that must make them always differ, so that those Books are not very Useful to us. Besides this, the Terms of Art made use of are so unknown to us, that a great deal they Write is quite unintelligible to the generality of New-England ; Justat the close of the Revolution, J. Hector St. John's "Letters from an Americ
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