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of the third generation, who was at the head of the establishment 

 for many years, was widely known in the horticultural world as a 

 man of remarkable enterprise, indefatigable in his exertions for 

 the introduction of new plants, and as a man of extensive reading 

 and a forcible writer. He was the author of a Treatise on the 

 Vine (New York, 1830) and a Pomological Manual (New York, 

 1831), in both which he was assisted by his father, the second 

 William Prince, who also wrote a Treatise on Horticulture (New 

 York, 1828). Mr. Prince dedicated his Pomological Manual to 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, of which he was a cor- 

 responding, and his father an honorary member. 



The first person who cultivated a garden on a large scale in 

 Charleston, S.C., was Mrs. Lamboll. About the middle of the 

 last century her garden was richly stored with flowers and other 

 curiosities of nature, as well as useful vegetables. She was fol- 

 lowed by Mrs. Martha Logan and Mrs. Hopton, the former of 

 whom, when seventy years old, wrote a treatise on gardening 

 called the Gardener's Kalendar, which was published after her 

 death in 1779, and as late as 1808 regulated the practice of gar- 

 dening in and near Charleston. She was a great florist, and 

 uncommonly fond of a garden. 



About 1755 Henry Laurens purchased a lot in Ansonborough, 

 afterwards called Laurens Square, and enriched it with every thing 

 useful or ornamental that Carolina produced, or his extensive mer- 

 cantile connections enabled him to procure. He introduced olives, 

 capers, limes, ginger, Guinea-grass, the Alpine ever-bearing straw- 

 berry, red raspberries, and blue grapes ; also, from the south of 

 France, apples, pears, plums, and the white Chasselas grape, the 

 latter of which bore abundantly. The fruit raised from the olive 

 trees was prepared and pickled to equal those imported. His gar- 

 den was superintended with maternal care by Mrs. Elinor Laurens, 

 with the assistance of John Watson, a complete English gardener. 

 Watson soon after formed a spacious garden foi^himself, and estab- 

 lished the first nursery in South Carolina. His garden was laid 

 waste during the Revolution, but afterwards revived by himself 

 and his descendants. Robert Squib followed him, and, as well as 

 Watson, introduced many of the native productions of the State 

 into Europe. Squib was also the author of a Gardener's Kalen- 

 dar. Andre Michaux, who was sent out by the French Govern- 

 ment in 1786 to collect plants, established a botanic garden about 

 ten miles from Charleston. 



