. 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. 1798 THOBBUKN THUNBERGIA seed store in New York, it was arranged that Inglis should grow seeds also. This was in 1803; and in that year Inglis, as an experiment, had grown a lot of seeds. Thorburn bought these seeds for $; and thus arose the first regular seed store in New York, and one of the first in the U
. 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. 1798 THOBBUKN THUNBERGIA seed store in New York, it was arranged that Inglis should grow seeds also. This was in 1803; and in that year Inglis, as an experiment, had grown a lot of seeds. Thorburn bought these seeds for $; and thus arose the first regular seed store in New York, and one of the first in the United States. The seeds and plants continued to sell, and Tliorburn was obliged to import seeds. In 1805 or 180tl he ob- tained a catalogue of William Malcolm & Co., London, the first plant catalogue he had ever seen, and he then published one of his own. This led to more pretentious writing, and "The Gentleman and Gardener's Kalendar" was the first outcome. The third edition of this, in 1821, by "Grant Thorburn, Seedsman and Florist," contains tlie advertisement of "G. Thorburn & Son," dealers in seeds, implements and i-ural books. Grant Thorburn was a prolific writer for the current press on a variety of topics, under the iiom de plume of Laurie Todd. He was a unique character, and his his- tory,â"mixed with much fiction," as he himself says,â was the basis of John Gait's tale in three volumes (London, 1830) of "Lawrie Todd, or Settlers in the ; Thorburn left a most interesting autobio- graphy, which was published in New York in 1852. He died in New Haven, Conn., January 21, , at the age of 90. The portrait in Plate XLI is reproduced from his autobiography. L, H. B. THOEB. See Crntmius. Christ's T. is Paliuriis Spina-Ohristi. Jerusalem T. is Puliiiriis Spina- Christi; also Parkinxoiii<i arHleata. Swallow T. is Hippophae rharniioides. THOEN APPLE. Datura Stnimonium; also Crata'gns. THORN BBOOM. IJh'jr Ea
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