20 EJXOKD OF lIORTJCULTURi:. 



Cultivator, Albany, N. Y. ; Iowa Farmer, Mt. Pleasant, 

 Iowa ; Wisconsin Farmer, Madison, Wis. ; California 

 Farmer, San Francisco, Cal. ; Southern Cultivator, Athens, 

 Ga. ; Boston Cultivator, Boston, Mass. ; Richmond Far- 

 mer, Richmond, Va. ; New England Farmer, Boston, 

 Mass. ; Ohio Farmer, Cleveland, O. ; and many others 

 of similar character that have aided in the advancement 

 of the cause. With such an array of assistants, conducted 

 with so much ability, it would indeed be very strange if 

 Horticulture did not make rapid progress. 



BOOKS ox HORTICULTURE. 



Authors who had made any particular branch of science 

 their study formerly, gave their ideas and discoveries to 

 the public in book form. When these had awakened the 

 public mind to the value and importance of the subject, 

 periodicals stepped in and became the vehicles by which 

 the new facts and discoveries were conve^^ed to the public 

 as they were gradually developed. 



To afford a more distinct comparison between the early 

 days of American Horticulture and the present, let us 

 glance back a century and examine its condition at that 

 period. In 1 755, William Belgrove, of Boston, Mass., wrote 

 and published a " Treatise on Husbandry and Planting." 

 This work contains eighty-six pages. From that time to 

 1800 not more than three or four works appeared, and 

 from 1800 to 1820 probably ten or twelve more, among 

 which were MdMahon's "American Gardener's Kalendar," 

 David riossack's " llortus Elgensis," and William Coxe's 

 admiral)le little Mork on the " (Cultivation and Manage- 



