. 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. Till â kler Prii HORTICULTURE gean Garden was commenced about the century \<y William Prince, the father rii; ;it a time when there were -Inn. lit- the kind in this country. 1 \i\< ; a few trees to ornament liniliiiL', after the first efforts had h . that he could de
. 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. Till â kler Prii HORTICULTURE gean Garden was commenced about the century \<y William Prince, the father rii; ;it a time when there were -Inn. lit- the kind in this country. 1 \i\< ; a few trees to ornament liniliiiL', after the first efforts had h . that he could devote a por- iively. and shoi-tly after published s at that early period, contained several jnd varieties, and hence arose e fruit collection in ; died in 1802, "at an advanced HORTICULTURE 767 ness and writing, had great influence on American Horticulture in its formative period. As we have seen, he distributed seeds of the Lewis and Clark expedition; but Landreth is said to have shared these seeds, and also those collected by Nuttall. Those were days of the enthusiastic exportation of the seeds of American plants. The development of the seed trade is coincident with the development of the postal service. Burnet Landreth writes that "it was not until 1775 that the New York city post oiiace was first established, the mail passing Amons:st the nurseries which were prora from 18;;0 to 1830 were Bloodgood's, \ Parmentier's, and Hogg's, near New York ; Ijm- and Wilson's, at Albany; Sinclair and iMn(,'s at Baltimore. David Thomas, a man of -ri.:il character, and possessed of scientific attainmrnt- â was the earliest horticulturist of central "i- \\i -i ern New York. His collection of fruits at Auiiu:! upon Cayuga Lake, was begun about Lsiii'. Hi- son, .John J. Thomas, nurseryman and author ol the "American Fruit Culturist," which first ap peared in 1840, died at a ripe old age in 1895, ogists. The nursery ttnn .-f r ,'. ' ' i Long
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