HORTICULTURE 



HORTICULTURE 



Revolution seems to ha^e 



been the " Essays upon Field 



Husbandry begun in 1748 



and completed m 1739 by Rev 



Jared Eliot of Kilhngwoith 



Conn graudsunot thef tmous 



apostle Eliot (See hlint ) 'There are sundry books 



on husb■^Qdr^ wiote in England said Elint m his pre 



face 'HiMn„ lead ill ou that suhi ft nil \ * un 



■set such IS the diftereuce of clini i I I i > I >! 



Management between the 111 and us m i ^ 



that must m ike them alwa\ s diffii II' 



arenotveu Usetul to us Besid. ti,i ih i ,ii,,„l 



-^h 



thei! 



them to s , 1 III ii\ 111 II t 1 I i 111 II 1 t il.le 



qualitj Ihii UP nuiiil i wli ii ^li t I ^udins 

 neither affoid flowers to le^ilethe senses n ir the vege 

 tables necessary to the comfort of their families though 

 they annually receive considerable sums in money foi 



1080. Bartram's house as it was in 1835. Built in 1730-31. 

 In the margin is the Petre pear, raised by Bartr 



their crops sent to market. To this there have been 

 some illustrious exceptions of persons who cultivated 

 gardens on a large scale, both for use and pleasure. The 

 hrst that can be recollected is Mrs. LamboU, who, before 

 the middle of the eighteenth century, improved the south- 

 west extremity of King street [Charleston], in a garden 

 which was richly stored with flowers and other curiosi- 

 ties of nature, in addition to all the coiiiuh.n vii;ii;ilil<'s 

 for family use. She was followed by Mr-. !,.>^:ui mid 

 Mrs. Hopton, who cultivated extensive fiiinli n- in Mi . i- 

 ing, George and King stn'ets. on hinds ii.i'\ > .n i r, ,1 with 

 houses. The former riiln.Ml ili, l.ii,,- i. i - In had ac- 

 quired by long experii I : ' ,i regular 



s\stera, which was pni i i , « ith the 



titleof 'The Gardenir' I, ,;,.,, . '. i ,,,. ,lny regu- 

 lates th.. pi-ii-tifo ..f ■■■.■, , III .,i„l li, ar ( li.irk-stown." 

 Riiii-i 1% ,..,], Ill, I \|. I 111 ha Logan was the daugh- 

 tei ',1 I; ; ihi' last proprietary gover- 

 n irs i - I Ir-. Logan was a great flo- 

 rist, iumI I ..iiiiiM.ii';. i..im1 . if .-i garden. She was seventy 



years old wln-n sh.- wrote her treatise on gardening, and 

 died in 1779. aged 77 years." 



The opening of the nineteenth century may be taken 

 as a convenient starting point for a narrative of the 

 evolution of American Horticultnn-. At flmt time Hor- 

 ticulture began to attain .sonn- pr miiii' us distinct 



from general agriculture, and il siiiMj-lmient of 



peace after the long and depiitiii;^ win- witli England 

 hTd turned the attention of the best citi/.eiis afresh to 

 tlip ..rrn|.:ifiMn of tiip soil. The c-iample of W.ashington, 

 111 nliiniiiiu' tn ilip farm after a long and honorable pub- 

 li lanir, nn liiniM exerted great influence. His agri- 

 iilinral r,irri-s|.,iii.lenc'e was large, and much of it was 



1 iilill-hnl at tl |H'niiin- of the century. His correspon- 



1 in.' with Artlini- \oiiiiu and Sir John Sinclair will be 

 I 1111,1 ill \-,.liini,,s |,iii,lisli,,| in London in 1800 and 1801, 

 ill Ahxaii.lria in Isn:;, and in Washington in 1847. De- 

 tiils respecting the management of his plantations com- 

 piise vol. iv. of the Memoirs of the Long Island His- 

 torical Society, 1889. 



It was not until 1790, however, that an indigenous and 

 distinctly agricultural treatise other than Eliot's ap- 

 peared in America. At that time, the Rev. Samuel 

 Deane, vice-president of Bowdoin College, published his 

 ' New England Farmer, or Georgical Dictionary," a cy- 

 clopedic work of the state of American agriculture. 

 This passed to a second edition in 1797, and to a third in 

 1822. (See Deane.) In 1799 J. B. Bordley published in 

 Philadelphia "Essays and Notes on Husbaudry." Other 



