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HORTICULT UBi£ JOtlMl 



A MAGAZINE OF 



Horticulture, Botany, Agriculture, and the Kindred Sciences. 



Conducted by a Committee of Practical Gardeners. R.ROBTNSON SCOTT, Editor, No. 63 

 Walnut Street, between Second and Dock Streets, up stairs. 



Vol. I.] Philadelphia, July, 1852. [No. 3. 



STATISTICS OF HORTICULTURE. 



BY THE EDITOR. 



Our friend "Duns S.cotus " has closed his chapter on the Statistics 

 of American Horticulture. Who else could have written such a brief 

 history! He has asked the readers of the Horticultural Journal to 

 complete the figure,- — no one of the many veteran gardeners has been 

 the volunteer historian. 4i Buns Scotus" could not write of the pre- 

 sent as he has done of the past. He is now the moving principle of 

 American Horticulture (or principal we should have written it). His 

 feats in Horticulture are known and appreciated — his writings are read 

 and valued, and his person respected by thousands of his supporters. 

 Foreign gardeners owe him much, and many think they owe him re- 

 sentment; this is their own affair. We shall then take up for him and 

 our readers the tale of Horticultural Statistics, and invite ''Duns Sco- 

 tus" to be our censor. 



But we shall require many pages and many chapters of so small a 

 book as the "Florist" to write the history of this beautiful art. Many 

 ideas shall pass before our mind's eye to be rejected or remodelled — 

 many suppositions will be hazarded, many assertions made on slight 

 foundations — yet as few as possible. We shall endeavor to offend 

 none or excite any; to give to all the friends of our profession fair 

 play shall be our aim ; to drag no modest man to light who would ra- 

 ther remain hidden, if we can discover his wishes in due time. Birt 

 the authentic and ample history of American Horticulture must be 

 written by some one ; therefore we shall try it. 



Twenty years ago — and no doubt this is quite far enough to recede 

 — we should have been puzzled to fill a small green-house with the 

 r ^ plant? of New Holland or the Cape of Good Hope. Greater and more 

 (% difficult would have proved the task to collect into one hot-house of GA 



