. 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 759 j-l^'fr Lli-^. 14 now remembered in the in- teresting gunus Hosackia, one of the Leguiuinosie. A botanic :j:arden wa3 established at Charleston, S. C, about 1804, and one iu IMaryland about the same time. The Botanic Gar- den at Cambridge, Mass., was begun in ;), an instit
. 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 759 j-l^'fr Lli-^. 14 now remembered in the in- teresting gunus Hosackia, one of the Leguiuinosie. A botanic :j:arden wa3 established at Charleston, S. C, about 1804, and one iu IMaryland about the same time. The Botanic Gar- den at Cambridge, Mass., was begun in ;), an institution which, together with tbe Pro- fessorship of NaturLd History ;it Gambriilge, was founded hirgely through the eOorts of the Massiudiusetts Society fur Promoting Agriculture. The society subscribed $500 for the purpose, and raised more hy subscription. Early General WRrTiNos. — 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 ^, by Rev, -hired Eliot, of Killingworth, Conn., grandson of the fiiinous apostle Eliot. (See Eliof.] "There are sundry books on husbandry wrote in England," said Eliot, in his pre- face. "Having read all on that subject 1 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. Besities 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 ; Just at the close of the Revolution, J. Hector fit. John's "Letters from an Amrrican Parmer " appeared, although ''the troubles that convu
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