HORTICULTUl 



HORTICULTURE 



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Early General Writings 

 -The progress of Horticul 

 ture may be traced in th< 

 books devoted to the subject 

 The eirhe t wiitin^s did nol 

 sepirite Horti ultuie troir 

 asiKultuK Thi lbU w.il 

 exchisneh de\uted t) agn 

 culturil mitters which ip 

 pcired in \iiiern i befoie th( 

 Re^ohition seems to liavt 

 been the E s us upon Field 

 Hubbandr\ be5,un m 174f 

 and completed m 17j1 h\ Her 

 Jared Eliot of Killin„\\oith 

 Conn grandson of the t un lu^ 

 apostle Eliot (See Ltiot ) 

 on husbandry wrote m Englinl " sail El 

 face Having read all on that sul leet I 

 ■\et such IS the difference of hmite a 

 Management between them 

 that niu t Hike th ra al \ \ 

 are i 

 Art 



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lid btam: 

 Method of 

 S from Causes 

 at those Books 

 the Terms of 

 i that a great 

 the generality 



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i-nt\ hve \ears 



f 11 1 the close of the war the conlitiou of our igii- 

 ilt in 1 of all -Vmerican institutions wa minutely 



unt 1 If 1 t the world through the writings of many 

 travelers, English and French, who made inquisitive 

 iourneys into the new country. Strickland, an English 

 traveler, wrote in 1801 that "land in America affords 

 little pleasure or profit, and appears in a progress of 

 continually affording less. * * * Land in New York, 

 formerly producing 20 bushels to the acre, now produces 

 only 10. * * * Little profit can be found in the 

 present mode of agriculture of this country, and I ap- 

 prehend it to be a fact that it affords a bare subsistence. 

 * * * Decline has pervaded all the states." There is 

 abundant evidence, including a pairistaking inquiry 

 made by Washington, to show that agriculture was at a 

 low state at the close of the century. It was in striking 

 contrast to its status a hundred years later, notwith- 

 standing the lugubrious writings of the present time. 



There was early development of the garden desire in 

 the South as well as in the North. In South Carolina 

 appeared the earliest Amfri'"i?i !i..r'i.-nitn'-:,| i„..,k of 



which we have any r. ivi. rin- !■""! i-M" l-.i.nr ,.v- 



tant, and it is known lo iIm- ^ i 



from the following p;i_'i ill i: . : ~ , 



Carolina," 1809: "Thi- I'l-'i'f' '- "i ' '""li"'' 'i:i --1' 1 1- -<! 

 so great profits from the cultivation of rioe, indigo (see 

 Indigo) and cotton that they have always too much 

 neglected the culture of gardens. The high price of 

 their staple commodities in everv period has tempted 

 them to sacrifice c,.iiv.->,i.-Ti>-- (.. ri-").^ of a ,„:,rkrfal.l.- 

 quality. There an- nninli-v- wh.-.. ,ni;l.-. i-<l -niilrn- 

 neither afford flow.-rs to ,:■■_':,],■ tlo- -.n,, ... no,- il,,. \ri,',- 

 tables necessary to tliv runifori of tlnir raHii!i.~. thouijii 

 they annually receive cuusidtrablu sums in luouuv for 



in 1805. Built in 1730-31. 



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 

 first that can be recollected is Mrs. Lamboll, 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 common vegetables 

 for family use. She was followed bv Mrs. Logan and 

 Mrs. Hopton.vj-ho cultivated pxipiisiv.'- L'nrdr-iis in Meet- 

 ing, George and King stmts, on 1.iih(s now covorc-d with 

 houses. The former reiiui-oii tin- l^ia.w i. .luo ^In- bad ac- 

 quired by long experieii'o ami ol,-,i\ ation t,, a n-gular 

 system, which was ]nilili-loii aCt.-r Inq- di-.atti. with the 

 titleof 'Theliari!. i:. r i: v. lalar;' and to this day regu- 

 lates the pra^ni^ II and near Charlestown." 

 Ramsay recoril- i i i ' iiliaLoganwasthedaugh- 

 ter of Robert II : : i in- last proprietary gover- 

 nors of s..i:i'; I iia. .Mrs. Logan was a great flo- 

 rist, an ' I . loud of a garden. She was seventy 

 years oi . i, mte her treatise on gardening, and 



die 



The up. ion. .:! l!,c 



as a couveuieut .starti 

 evolution of American 

 ticulture began to att! 

 from general agricul 

 peace aftor tin- loni.' ; 

 had tnnio.l tin' atr.-nti 

 the o.-.'ui.aii.in of lio. . 



cultura 

 publisli 



•ars." 



nineteenth century may be taken 

 ng point for a narrative of the 

 Horticulture. At that time Hor- 

 lin .some prominence as distinct 



nsh to 

 ington, 

 lo pub- 

 is agri- 



distinctly 

 peared in 



-,,■ s '.■ will be 



l.oiiaon :u l.MMiaud 1801, 

 rashiugtou in 1S17. De- 

 it of his plantations com- 

 jf the Long Island His- 



■. that an in.li-.-nousand 



third in 

 ished in 

 ." Other 



