. 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. 2529. An European type of plow, still used in its improved 2528. An early Yankee plow, made oi wood and the mold- board protected by iron nailed on. After Roberts. tools each year as he does in markets or crop
. 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. 2529. An European type of plow, still used in its improved 2528. An early Yankee plow, made oi wood and the mold- board protected by iron nailed on. After Roberts. tools each year as he does in markets or crops. The advertising pages of rural papers are suggestive in this direction. The original tool for opening or tilling the ground one being for hand-work essentially what the other i team-work. As the philosophy of tillage has come to be better understood, these tools have been greatly modified and varied. It is surprising to know that the plow was not perfected until within a century. It is doubtful if the invention of any of the most important machines of modern times has really meant so much for the welfare of the race as the birth of this humble im- plement. To many persons is ascribed the credit of the invention of the modern plow, for the implement seems to have originated independently in different countries, and even in America there are various contestants for the honor. Thomas Jefferson, Charles Newbold, David Peacock, and others have received the honor. There i s reason for ascrib- ing the modern type of plow to Jethro Wood, of Scipio, Cayuga county, New York. The years 1814 and 1819 are the dates of his most important patents, al- though the latter is usually regarded as the natal day of the implement. Wood was born in Massachu- setts in 1774 and died in 1845 or 1840. (See "Jethro Wood, inventor of the Modern Plow," by Frank Gilbert, Chicago, 1882.) The study of plows is a curious and profitable undertaking, and one that still needs to be prosecuted. Some of
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