. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. GRAY liis per^^ouality unci influence prevented any great defec- tion. At the present time, the pendulum seems to have swung to the opposite extreme. Species are small dis- junctive groups: authors tend to malie many rather than few. It will probably be a decade or mor
. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. GRAY liis per^^ouality unci influence prevented any great defec- tion. At the present time, the pendulum seems to have swung to the opposite extreme. Species are small dis- junctive groups: authors tend to malie many rather than few. It will probably be a decade or more before the species-ideal swiugs back to the middle point, where only a pendulum can rest. Gray was a philosophical naturalist. He was one of the first of the great American naturalists to espouse the main argument of Darwin's "Origin of ; In this respect he stands in bold contrast to his great colleague Agassiz. Gray's influence was the greater because he was known to be a pronounced theist. He entered the conflict which arose between orgaiiie evolu- tion and theology, and did much to heal the schism. His writings on the evolution controversies were pub- lished in two volumes, "Darwiniana" and "Natural Science and ; Gray was a constructive philosopher, as well as a critic. His essay on the "Relations of the Japanese Flora to that of North America," was one of the first masterful attempts to explain the principles of the dis- tribution of species. This essay stands for the conceptions: that species have one on,m; tii,: di-ni- the ( rth : the of the north temperate li-i i i i 'i:ir. One who is unfamiliar with the poiin- ,.i i |, -. .1 his time cannot catch the full siguiflcainL- o£ liie^-e cujiclu- sions. Tlicy are now accepted, not challenged. Into philosopliical discussions of cultivated plants he made few excursions, altho\ his paper on the running out of varieties lias become a standard; and in his ma
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