. 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. COWSLIP. The tnie EiiL'lish ('..wslii) is Pri- niiil-i ••iffliKilix. The plant wrongly calhd ill America is the Marsh Man^'iiia, e of his book, the American ihows that he acquainted with many varieties of grapes, and had done much grafting. His book was a standard untU the time of the Downings, and wa
. 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. COWSLIP. The tnie EiiL'lish ('..wslii) is Pri- niiil-i ••iffliKilix. The plant wrongly calhd ill America is the Marsh Man^'iiia, e of his book, the American ihows that he acquainted with many varieties of grapes, and had done much grafting. His book was a standard untU the time of the Downings, and was freely used by other au- thors. The illustrations were excellent for their time, but show only the size and outline of a fruit, and whether it was dotted, splashed or streaked. Coxe said, 1817, that he had been "for many years actively engaged in the rearing, planting and cultivat- ing of fruit trees on a scale more extensive than has been attempted by any iiKii^iiliial of tliis ; He also had a national rcpiiiai ion fdi- his . :it :iii age when it was the most faniMU^ ami cliarai'Tfi-i^i age of the people, and wljiu apple tnts wire cultivated more for cider than tor a table fruit. William Coxe belonged to one of the most refined fam- ilies of Philadelphia. His early education was some- what meager by reason of the Revolutionary war, but he became a cultured gentleman. John Jay Smith gives this pleasant picture of him: "Well do we remember his extensive library in his fine mansion on the 'Bank' at Burlington, when as a little boy we were assigned the duty of bringing away, or taking home, some book or pam- phlet from his ever open stores of information. • » * His person was handsome, and his bearing that of the 'old-fashioned' gentleman, improved by mixing in the best society, but retaining the forms of the greatest po- liteness and suavity, that modern usages are too rapidly casting off. An errand to Mr. Coxe's was a ch
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