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John Gardiner and David Hepburn, was published at Washing- 

 ton, D.C., in 1804. M'Mahon, in the preface to the American 

 Gardener's Calendar, published in 1806, says that in writing this 

 treatise he had had recourse, besides other authorities, to the best 

 American publications ; but, unless a large number have escaped 

 notice, these must have been scant} 7 at that time. The American 

 Practical Gardener, by "An Old Gardener," was published at 

 Baltimore in 1819 ; and William Cobbett's American Gardener, 

 at New York, in the same year. The Gentleman's and Garden- 

 er's Kalendar, by Grant Thorburn, was also published at New 

 York in 1821. The calendar appears to have been a favorite form 

 for a work on gardening in these and earlier days. The American 

 Vine Dresser's Guide, by Alphonse Loubat, was published in New 

 York in 1827. The New American Gardener, by Thomas Green 

 Fessenden, and a Treatise on the Cultivation of Flowers, by 

 Roland Green, appeared at Boston in 1828 ; and the Economy 

 of the Kitchen-Garden, Orchard, and Vinery, by William Wilson, 

 at New York in the same year. The works of Martha Logan, 

 Coxe, Prince, Adlum, and Thacher, have been mentioned in the 

 course of this chapter, as have also the Massachusetts Agricultu- 

 ral Repositor} 7 , the American Farmer, and the New England 

 Farmer. Various European works on agriculture and horticul- 

 ture were republished in this country ; and several agricultural 

 magazines, as well as transactions of agricultural societies, among 

 which we mention only the Memoirs of the Philadelphia Society 

 for Promoting Agriculture, were published and discontinued before 

 the formation of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society ; but no 

 exclusively horticultural periodical was published until after that 

 time. From the time of Jacques Cornutus, in 1635, the botany of 

 North America received frequent attention from scientific writers ; 

 but the first strictly American botanical work, written and printed 

 in this country, by a native, is believed to be the Arbustum 

 Americanum of Humphry Marshall, a description of the forest 

 trees and shrubs of the United States, printed in 1785. A mere 

 allusion to the many botanical works which have followed it must 

 suffice. 



We have thus, as briefly as possible, while doing proper justice 

 to the subject, reviewed the progress of horticultural improvement 

 in this country for more than two centuries. We have seen that 

 the first settlers from England, France, and other European coun- 



