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tages which the true scientist can alone 

 appreciate. 



Thus the development of horticulture, 

 as far as it concerns New England, has 

 been traced from the period when it began 

 to unfold. Crude and unsatisfactory as 

 it was in those early years of want and 

 suffering, still it was by its patient prop- 

 agation that life was sustained and prog- 

 ress gradually made by the feeble colonies, 

 who labored under the disadvantages that 

 arose not only from ignorance of the cli- 

 mate but from the want of suitable imple- 

 ments, as also of domestic animals to 

 relieve them in their labors. The Colony 

 of Massachusetts Bay had opportunities 

 from the first tnat those of Plymouth and 

 other settlements bad not possessed. 



Encumbered as all were at the com- 

 mencement, the revolution of the years 

 brought with them gradual improvement 

 in all that pertains to the cultivation of 

 the soil for the mere production of daily 

 food, which soil was by no means gener- 

 ally fertile. 



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