HORTICULTURE 



HORTICULTURE 



lUo3. One ul the u d Ll„ i a l^-. =i.p,i. Uec» 



first edition), m 4to having been sold m a little more 

 than eight months " An American edition, by William 

 Cobbett, appealed m New York and Philadelphia in 

 1802, and in Albany m 1803, and an epitome of it bv "an 

 American farmer." was published in Philadelphia m 

 ISO'S The hrst -iinencan pomological book was William 

 Coxe's"View of the Cultnation of Fruit Tiees," pub 

 lished m Philadelphia in 1817, a work known to students 

 of horticultural literature for the uniform completeness 

 and accuracy of its descriptions. A feature of this 

 excellent wi.rk Ire the many woodcuts of varieties of 

 fruits. Alili iiiL'ti II -i iMi-iwering the requirements of the 

 present •', ■ onsidered to be verv good for 



the tim. . , ; i . .■ountry. One of them is here 



reprodii I i_. ; -. i.. show the style of workman- 

 ship. (_:ux. I, .1.1 Inn .iuudcuts of apples. 63 of pears. 15 

 of peaches, 17 of plums, .'! of apricots. 2 of nectarines. 

 This makes 200 engravings, which would be considered 

 liberal illustration even at the present day. 



James Thaeher's "American Orchardist " appeared in 

 Boston in 1822, and the second edition at Plymouth in 

 1825. The first edition was also bound with William 

 Cobbett's "Cottage Economy," and the double volume 

 was issued in New York in 1824 as "American Orchardist 

 and Cotta{,e Economj The PomologK al M mual New 

 York I8il (sfcond edition 18P) is a comi il ition if 

 descriptK ns of \arieties b\ William Ribert Prince an 1 

 Willnm 1 rin e son and f ither respic 

 ti\tlv \\ illiam Kenrick s N(«Ainor 

 can Orchardist wis publish* 1 in H i i 

 in 183J The eighth edition aj peir 1 ii 

 1848 like all eirlv works it ie\ I 

 most of Its space to variiti s K 1 cit 

 Mannin,;: whose son <f the line mnic 

 is the s cretaiy of the M i 1 usetts 

 Horticultural Society pul li 1 e 1 his 

 admirable Boc 1 of I nuts at s ilem ii 

 1838 be If, ai ltd 1\ John M IMS Ij n 

 thed atl f M i ning I\ ( s i il I 1 1 

 second t lit n u 1814 und r tl titli ot 

 "The New I n„lm 1 triiit B 1 ar 1 i 

 third in 184 as The New > nt,land Pt c k 

 of I" ruits Dow nmg s I ruits and Fruit 

 Tree of Aineiica appeared m 1S4 in 

 two form Inoiepimo anl oct ^o 1 

 thouf,! 1 1 I 



thes 

 form 

 "Fru t 

 seqiit 



Cultui t II 1 Is II (I 



pomol f^ical wrtigs which j ppeared 

 befoie lb 11 S \ei Xnuri an Fruit 

 Garden C i Bo ton 18 !J 



Hoff\ ( rmpanion 



Philal nai s fruit 



Cultn ^ rk 184 



Flo\ \ I eor„e Lmd 



ley s ( rl ai 1 Fruit 



IS Ml 



It 1^ (Hie circumstance to which «. \ mm t . dl 



I I turn of our readeis — that \\liil - n : i , nt 



\ il Tl ]iomolog\ ill lonipilid ti( m il i mih is 

 (II tiom lutormatiun 1 ' I ' wiirtis 



themselves seldom 1 n n ni 



their power, we h n j i , i 



men which we h i\ I \ nil i 



reasonable doubt ul ii „ luiiim li M mmii^' 



who chiefly made known to Amtiicaub the pL.iis i t the 

 Belgian, Van Mens. He was one of the must laiftul 

 observers and conscientious wuteis amongst AmeiRau 

 pomologists. 



The awakening pomology of the region west of the 

 AUeghanies found expression in Elliott's "Fruit Book," 

 1854, whose author wrote from Cleveland, and which 

 went to a new edition in 1859 as "The Western Fruit 

 Book," with the preface dated at St. Louis; and Hoop- 

 er's "Western Fruit Book," 1857, written at Cincinnati. 

 Dr. John A. Warder was a guiding spirit of the opening 

 West. 



In America, no crop has been the subject of so much 

 book writing as the grape. Counting the various edi- 

 tions, no doubt a hundred books have appeared, being 

 the work-of at least fifty authors. Since the American 

 grape is a product of our own woods within a century, 

 the progress in grape-growing has always been ahead 

 of the books. Most of the books are founded largely on 

 European advice, and therefore are not applicable to 

 American conditions. In general pomology, the books 

 seem tc ha\( had mu h influence upoi fni t trowing 

 but in the grape the 1 <( ks an I actual i i rci Igiaje 

 growing sum t hni ha 1 little id t let the 



