Archive image from page 426 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. 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 cyclopediaofamer03bail3 Year: 1900 PRINCE PRITCHAKDIA 1437 }yiUiaiti Hoheri Prince (Fig. 1960), fourth proprietor of the Prince Nursery, at Flushing, was born November 6, 1795; married Charlotte C. Collins, (laughter of Gov- ernor Collins, of R
Archive image from page 426 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. 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 cyclopediaofamer03bail3 Year: 1900 PRINCE PRITCHAKDIA 1437 }yiUiaiti Hoheri Prince (Fig. 1960), fourth proprietor of the Prince Nursery, at Flushing, was born November 6, 1795; married Charlotte C. Collins, (laughter of Gov- ernor Collins, of Rhode Island, October 2,1826, and died March 28,1SC9. He inherited his father's love of botany and his great energy. He was connected with the Ameri- can Institute, National Pomological Society, Massachu- setts Horticultural Society and many other important or- ganizations, in whose transactions he took a prominent part. In 1830 he wrote, with the assistance of his father, the 'Treatise on the Vine,' a work of high importance. In 1831 he issued the 'Pomological Manual' in two vol- umes, an important treatise on all fruits except apples. In 1846 he published the 'Manual of Roses.' In his later days Mr. Prince received the honorary degrees of and When a boy he was sent for a year to Canada in order to become proficient in French, as there were then no schools of langxiages in New York, and the European correspondence was au important feature in the horti- cultural business. In his early manhood he botanized through the entire line of Atlantic States in company with Professor Torrey, of Columbia College, and Pro- fessor Nuttall, of Harvard. In California, during 1849 and 1850, while others were searching only for gold, he was making collections of the trees and wild flowers of that countrj'. The oldest cedar of Lebanon in the United States, as well as the oldest Chinese magnolias, salis- burias, Mt. Atlas cedars, paulownias and purple beeches are to be found to-day in th
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