. 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. v^^' 1062 NATIVE PLANTS NEBRASKA NATIVE PLANTS. It has been said that Americans do not appreciate the indigenous plants of the country. This may have been true, but it is not true now. The desire for native and natural plants is one of the x^romi- nent movements of the present time. It is not strange that wild
. 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. v^^' 1062 NATIVE PLANTS NEBRASKA NATIVE PLANTS. It has been said that Americans do not appreciate the indigenous plants of the country. This may have been true, but it is not true now. The desire for native and natural plants is one of the x^romi- nent movements of the present time. It is not strange that wild plants are not appreciated in a new country. The first necessity of our civilization was to fell the trees that ground might be tilled and habitations be built. The necessities of life were impoz'ted; the litera- ture was exotic; the plants were transported from other lauds. In Europe the conditions of living had become established. People had outgrown the desire to remove. They appreciated their own plants and also those from the New World. American plants attracted attention in Europe rather than in America. Ten years ago, the writer made a census of indige- nous American plaats which were known to have been introduced to cultivation. The statistics were published in "Annals of Horticulture for ; It was found "that there are in North America, north of Mexico, about 10,150 known species of Native Plants, distributed in 1,555 genera and 1G8 families. Of these, 2,416 species are recorded in this censiis, representing 769 genera and 133 families. Of this number, 1,929 species are now offered for sale in America; 1,500 have been introduced into England, of which 487 are not in cultivation in this ; All these species are catalogued in the census. The only other account of the entire cultivated flora is that whi(;.h is contained in this Cyclopedia, and for which the lists often years ago were a preparation. The final summing up of these volumes will
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