DH. BRINCKLK 285 



Soon after the establishment oi the 'Horticulturist' 



I introdn 1 my much Lamented friend Downing t<> 



Dr. Brinckle\ at the time residing in Girard Row, 

 Chestnut Btreet, then the mosl distinguished range of 

 houses in Philadelphia. His dwelling was capacious 

 ami fashionable, but its attraction to Downing was a 

 garden about as large as the parlor, and a fourth-storj 

 front room looking south; in the former was con- 

 tained a few raspberry bushes, <>n which the Doctor 

 was experimenting; and there stood th<- Brinckle" 

 Orange, then bearing, for the first time, half a dozen 

 <>t' its golden berries; others were about, but the 

 Orange was evidently his pet, and it did not deceive 

 his hopes. That fruit alone is a passport to enduring 

 fame ; an acquisition in every sense to be proud of. 



"The ap -stairs front room floor was covered with 

 pots of strawberries, <m which hybridizing experiments 

 were in progress, and the Doctor told as, with evident 

 satisfaction, that he could i>i«-k a bowl of fruit for a 

 patient at all seasons. Much conversation ensued 

 between tin- tun lovers <>t' improvement, ami when we 

 left, Downing said much what your correspondent lias 

 written [page 284], that Brinckle* had done more for 

 horticulture than any other person in America. It' I 

 am imt mistaken, he thought more than all the resl 

 • it' as put together. 



M Dr. Brinckle" was eminently a genial man. and 

 loved to have his friends around him. Be gavt 

 one occasion, of a fruit-growers' exhibition, the most 

 superb fruit party ever seen in this country. All the 

 gardeners ami amateurs vied with each other to till his 

 noble table with their best fruits; these, combined 

 with tin- \.i-\ recherche* >kerj of Philadelphia's best 



