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and almost every house has its garden of fruits and 

 flowers. Its beautiful cemetery, for which Dr. R. I. P. 

 Fiske did so much in ornamental culture, is still further 

 improved by Mr. Todd. Here rest the remains of John 

 Albion Andrew, the "war Governor" and friend of 

 human freedom. Nor would we forget that Hingham 

 is still the home of the venerable Solomon Lincoln, 

 the historian, and of our beloved and accomplished 

 chief magistrate, Gov. John Davis Long. 



A history of our horticulture would be considered as 

 deficient without some notice of the literature which 

 has been connected with it, and as agriculture is the 

 mother of horticulture it is natural that its publications 

 should precede it. The first work of the kind published 

 in our State was the New England Farmer or Georgical 

 Dictionary, by Dr. Samuel Deane, in 1790. Then 

 came the Massachusetts Agricultural Repository, 1793; 

 the American Gardener, by Thomas Green Fessenden, 

 in 1822 ; a Treatise on the Cultivation of Flowers, by 

 Roland Greene, in 1828 ; and the Book of Fruits, 

 by Robert Manning, in 1838. Subsequent to these, 

 several other works on horticulture and agriculture, as 

 well as magazines and the reports of societies of other 

 States and from foreign lands were accessible to those 

 who sought for them. Among these may be named 

 the Transactions of the Philadelphia and Massachu- 

 setts Societies for Promoting Agriculture ; Thacher's 

 American Orchardist, of 1821 ; The New England 

 Farmer, by Thomas Green Fessenden, in ]822; 

 The New American Orchardist, by William Kenrick ; 

 The Massachusetts Ploughman ; The Boston Cultiva- 

 tor. But it was not until the establishment of the 

 American Gardener's Magazine, P. B. Hovey and 

 Charles M. Hovey, editors, in 1835, that a regular 

 publication on Horticulture was published in New Eng- 



