. 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 767 ment: "The LinuaMiu Ciarden was commenced about the middle of the hist century by William Prince, the father of the present proprietor, at a time when there were few or no establishments of the kind in this country. It oripcinated from his rearing a few trees to ornament his o
. 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 767 ment: "The LinuaMiu Ciarden was commenced about the middle of the hist century by William Prince, the father of the present proprietor, at a time when there were few or no establishments of the kind in this country. It oripcinated from his rearing a few trees to ornament his own grounds ; but tinding, after the Hrst efforts had been attended with success, that he could devote a por- tion of his lands more lucratively to their cultiv ti-tion for sale than to other purposes, he commenced their cul- ture more extensively, and shortly after published a catalogue, which, at that early period, contained several hundred species and varieties, and hence arose the lirst extensive fruit collection in ; The elder Prince died in 1802, "at an advanced ; Amongst the nurseries which were prominent from 18:20 to 18H0 were Bloodgood's, Wilson's, Parmentier's, and Hogg's, near New York ; Buel and Wilson's, at Ailiany; Sinclair and Moore's, at Baltimore. David Thomas, a man of great character, and possessed of scientific attainments, was the earliest horticulturist of central or west- ern New York. His collection of fruits at Aurora, upon Cayuga Lake, was begun about 1830. His son, John J. Thomas, nurseryman and author of the "American Fruit Oulturist," which tirst ap- peared in 184t>, died at a ripe old age in 1805, and in his removal the country lost one of its most expert, systematic and conscientious pomol- ogists. Th* nursery firm of Parsons «t Co., on Long Island, was founded in 1838, and is con- tinuing. It was instrumental in distril)uting fi:reat quantities of fruit and ornamental stock at a formative time in American
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