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etc., 13,000 in the mere cost of procuring new plants and seeds, 

 while above 20,000 has been applied in the form of medals and 

 money prizes for the encouragement of horticulture." l 



The society is best known in the United States by its Catalogue 

 of Fruits, which is the foundation of all accurate pomological 

 nomenclature ; but a reminder of its energy is seen in every garden 

 which contains the Wistaria Sinensis, 2 the Weigela rosea, or the 

 Dielytra spectabilis, the most popular of the many beautiful plants 

 that we owe to the society. 



The Caledonian Horticultural Society was formed in 1809, and 

 that of Paris, in 1826. 



In 1819 the American Farmer was established in Baltimore, 

 and it is now the oldest agricultural periodical in the United 

 States which has had a continued existence in some form to this day. 

 In 1822 the New England Farmer was established in Boston, 

 under the conduct of Thomas G. Fessenden, author of the New 

 American Gardener, who continued editor until his death, on the 

 10th of November, 1837. In 1828 the words Horticultural Jour- 

 nal were added to the title of the paper ; but articles on horti- 

 culture had from the commencement frequently appeared in its 

 pages from Mr. Lowell, Gen. Dearborn, John Prince, John Welles, 

 Gorham Parsons, S. W. Pomeroy, Samuel G. Perkins, and Jesse 

 Buel of Albany, as well as the editor. In November, 1826, Joseph 

 R. Newell, who had previously kept an agricultural warehouse at 

 No. 108 State Street, removed to No. 52 North Market Street; 

 and in January, 1827, the office of the Farmer was removed to the 

 room over Mr. Newell's establishment, where John B. Russell, the 

 publisher from September 4, 1824, to November 28, 1832, opened 

 a seed-store. 8 The close combination of the Fanner office and 

 seed-store with the agricultural warehouse attracted agriculturists 

 and horticulturists from all parts of the country ; so that the office 

 of the Farmer became an exchange for the discussion of all 

 matters of interest to cultivators. 4 It was here that the subject 



1 Book of the Royal Horticultural Society, p. 43. 



2 The first living plant of Wistaria (formerly Glycine) Sinensis was sent from China in 

 1818, by John Reeves, and was still growing in the garden at Chiswick in 1863. Probably 

 this is the plant mentioned in the Botanical Register as covering eighteen hundred square 

 feet of wall, and producing six hundred and seventy-five thousand flowers in 1840. 



8 In August, 1836, Joseph Breck & Co. purchased the Farmer and seed-store, and, a year 

 later,. they added the agricultural warehouse of Mr. Newell. They were the publishers 

 of the Farmer until its discontinuance in 1846, when they became interested in the Horticultu- 

 rist, then commenced at Albany, N.Y. 



4 MS. of Joseph Breck; Advertisements in New England Farmer. 



