320 THE LIFE OF SIR JOSEPH BANKS 



association with Sir Joseph Banks. However, from this 

 period (about 1791) their bond of friendship lasted as 

 long as they lived ; to their mutual esteem, and to the 

 steady progress of horticulture and fruit-farming. Knight 

 became a copious correspondent. Each letter is a long 

 and practical treatise ; and Banks must have sometimes 

 felt a strain upon his powers as a pupil if he were to 

 master the abounding details offered to him. But he 

 was himself completely in earnest in recognizing the 

 improvements necessary in fruit and flower culture ; 

 and it is evident from Knight's remarks that his corre- 

 spondent was following his steps closely, making the 

 matter his own, and repeating his experiments. 



These two men were the mainstay of the young Horti- 

 cultural Society, Knight became the second President, 

 and held the office for a long period of years. The early 

 volumes of the Transactions bear witness to their in- 

 dustry and to the soundness of their views. Moreover, 

 Knight's contributions to Vegetable Physiology keep 

 their authority in modern text-books. 1 



1 It has been shown that Sir Joseph abstained from authorship as 

 far as the public were concerned. A few items only, on Agriculture and 

 Horticulture, were printed under special circumstances. 



The Annals of Agriculture published the following articles : 



to the Council against the 



A Report on Wool 

 Instructions given 



Wool Bill . 

 Notes on Spinning 



A New Hay-barn, and New Rick-cloth 

 On The Hessian Fly 

 On the late Season, 1790 

 On the Hastings Turnip 

 Account of Twelve Lincoln Sheep 

 On the Musca pumilionis (a fly attacking Rye) 

 Reply to Queries on Labour in Lincolnshire 

 Economy of a Park ..... 



Vol. IX, 288 



480 



X, 217 



520 



XI, 422 



XV, 76 



., 77 



.. 357 



XVI, 176 



XIX, 187 



XXXIX, 550 



Papers printed in the Horticultural Society's Transactions : 

 An attempt to ascertain the time when the Potatoe 

 (Solanum tuberosum) was first introduced into 



the United Kingdom Vol. I, p. 8 



Some hints respecting the proper mode of inuring 



Tender Plants to our climate . . , . ,,21 



