JSvolution of Iborticulture 



publications in every department of hor- 

 ticulture, especially in botany, have been 

 numerous. Among the writers on this 

 subject in New England may be noticed 

 Cutler, Peck, Harris, Dewey, Bigelow, 

 Boott, Oakes, Gray, Tuckerman, Good- 

 ale. Upon other subjects relating to 

 every division, the names of the authors 

 from year to year are too many for these 

 pages. It is sufficient to say that most 

 are invaluable to the libraries of similar 

 societies. 



libraries containing a good collection 

 of publications are, as Bacon says, " the 

 shrines where all the relics of the ancient 

 saints full of true virtue, and that with- 

 out delusion or imposture, are preserved 

 and reposed." Such are essential to the 

 individual who desires to keep up with the 

 advance of an art, by comparing his own 

 work with that of others who have pre- 

 ceded him or who are his contemporaries, 

 His own experience may teach him much 

 that would be useful, but to command that 

 which is not his own, is to possess advan- 

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