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 . s mergedin The Cultivator and Country Gentleman. After thedeath of A. J. Downing he succeeded to the editorshipof The Horticulturist, which he removed to Rochester,until June, 1855, after which this famous magazine hadmany vicissitudes until 1887, when it went to swell thenmnber of p
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 . s mergedin The Cultivator and Country Gentleman. After thedeath of A. J. Downing he succeeded to the editorshipof The Horticulturist, which he removed to Rochester,until June, 1855, after which this famous magazine hadmany vicissitudes until 1887, when it went to swell thenmnber of periodicals now represented commercially byAmerican Gardening. In 1851 appeared his Treatiseon the Fruit-Garden, a new and thoroughly revisededition of which was issued in 1872, under the title ofBarrys Fruit-Garden. It is still one of our mostpopular books on pomology, and deservedly so. Thecatalogue of fruits which he compiled for the AmericanPomological Society is a monumental work. Mr. Barrydid much to make Rochester a city of nurseries andwestern New York a famous fruit-growing region. TheWestern New York Horticultural Society, of which hewas president for more than thirty years, and until hisdeath, has long exercised a more than sectional work of Barry was truly national, and essentially.
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