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generally accepted as indicating pomology. This tendency began 

 to manifest itself as early as 1802, when Cobbett's edition of For- 

 syth's Treatise on the Culture and Management of Fruit Trees 

 appeared in New York and Philadelphia, but the first truly Ameri- 

 can book on fruit growing appeared in 1817 — Coxe's View of the 

 Cultivation of Fruit Trees. Thatcher's American Orchardist ap- 

 peared in Boston in 1822. From that time onwards, for fifty years 

 or so, pomological works appeared in plenty and completely domi- 

 nated horticultural literature. 



Then came the Civil War, and a marked cessation of literary 

 production in this particular line as in everything else. Since the 

 collection of American books on horticulture and gardening has 

 received so little attention in the past, we have very few sources 

 from which to draw information. The two most excellent collec- 

 tions are that of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society and the 

 private library of Dr. L. H. Bailey, whose account of these earlier 

 North American horticultural books is undoubtedly the best 

 available and whose data I accept: 



" In the introduction to the History of the Massachusetts Horti- 

 cultural Society (1880), it is said that 'Mrs. Martha Logan, in 

 South Carolina, when seventy years old, wrote a treatise on garden- 

 ing called the Gardener's Kalendar which was published after her 

 death in 1779, and as late as 1808 regulated the practice of gardening 

 in and near Charleston. She was a great florist and uncommonly 

 fond of a garden.' In the Charleston library there is no separate 

 book of this kind, but the Gardener's Calendar by Mrs. Logan 

 appears in succeeding issues of the Carolina and Georgia Almanac, 

 comprising six pages. The earliest date there available is in the 

 Almanac for 1798. It has been spoken of as a pamphlet, and it 

 may have been reprinted separately. The first almanac printed 

 in South Carolina was Tobler's for 1752. This almanac contains 

 a * Gardener's Kalendar, done by a Lady of this Province and es- 

 teemed a very good one.' Perhaps this work was by Mrs. Logan. 

 There does not appear to be any book by Mrs. Logan in the anti- 

 quarian libraries or lists, although Evans apparently erroneously 

 included it in Vol. IV of his American Bibliography as of the date 

 of 1772. Mrs. St. Julien Ravenel, in Charleston, the Place and the 

 People (1906), writes that 'Mrs. Logan was the daughter of the 



