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HOUSE & GARDEN 
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Brown and Von Beren, Archs. 
America’s Early Garden Benefactors 
(Continued from page 21) 
the 
Clark expedition brought 
a famous budget, notably 
among evergreens, the 
Mahonias. The Prince ad¬ 
vertisements in The New 
York Gazette for 1774 of¬ 
fered “C a t a 1 p a Flower 
Trees and Carolina Mag¬ 
nolia Flower Trees, the 
most beautiful Trees that 
Grow in America.” 
William Prince II added 
greatly to the usefulness 
and prestige of the nur¬ 
series. He introduced all 
the fine new fruits and 
flowers that were discover¬ 
able anywhere. His cata¬ 
logs were standard publi¬ 
cations and ran sometimes 
through twenty editions. 
One of them listed 116 
sorts of apples, 108 of 
pears, 54 hf cherries, 50 of 
plums, 16 of apricots, 74 of 
peaches, 225 of geraniums ! 
In these days when only 
trees and shrubs that find 
ready sale are multiplied, 
all this would seem pure 
folly. But we have profited 
immensely through the 130 
years of sifting and of 
searching out the best 
things that the Princes 
conducted. For fifty years 
their work was continued 
less for profit than from 
a love of horticulture and 
botany for their own sakes. 
Robert II, sometimes 
called William Robert, was 
last Prince to keep up the nur¬ 
series and this he did as a scientific 
rather than a commercial establish¬ 
ment. When Irish potatoes could no 
longer be grown because of a mysteri¬ 
ous disease, he imported, as a possible 
substitute, the Chinese yam. He in¬ 
troduced Chinese sugar cane, the 
culture of osiers, was tireless in his 
efforts to establish the silk industry, 
importing both insects and mulberry 
trees and building a large cocoonery. 
Rich memorials of these old garden 
benefactors remain in the country 
yet. They left a lasting mark in the 
rare trees and plants growing in 
fields, gardens and on roads for many 
miles around Flushing, where, on the 
site of the old nurseries, is a garden 
run wild, a charming nature study, 
mended and unspoiled by art. 
To Robert and Samuel Parsons, the 
next nurserymen of Flushing, we owe 
initiation into the more complex mys¬ 
teries of gardening art. Some of our 
choice materials, native and foreign, 
were hard to multiply and therefore 
rare and costly. By foreign travel 
and native American invention they 
learned and practiced methods which 
now place rhododendrons, azaleas and 
Japan maples in many yards which 
otherwise could not afford them. The 
beautiful things brought from other 
countries Samuel Parsons used with 
rich effect in his landscape gardening. 
With such a wide country and such a 
wealth of beautiful materials we 
needed men to teach us how to use 
them. Parsons, Downing and Olm- 
stead were sent to meet the need. 
John Chapman, Pioneer Orchardist 
H ITHERTO all treasures of 
learning, art and science had 
been gathered into the lap of the 
A map of the coast of East Florida by 
John and William Bartram 
east, but now the star of the empire 
was moving westward. Records of 
historical societies in several states 
witness the fact that the orchards of 
the Ohio and Mississippi valleys date 
back to the work of an old man who is 
known to have planted a full hundred 
orchards during his strange, wander¬ 
ing life. That he was beloved as a 
hero and benefactor by a generation 
that of necessity left few written 
records, is also plain. 
John Chapman, alias Johnny Apple- 
seed, who seemed to consider himself 
divinely appointed as a forerunner 
of civilization to supply with fruit 
trees the pioneer orchards of the 
west, was born near Springfield, 
Mass., some time in 1775. Different 
localities, of course, are anxious to 
claim the location of his first nur¬ 
sery of little apple trees. The first 
orchard which seems well authenti¬ 
cated is that of Isaac Stadden. in 
Licking County, Ohio, where in 1801 
he appeared with a horse-load of ap¬ 
ple seeds in sacks. These he planted 
in the woods wherever there were 
promising little open glades, clearing 
away the underbrush and spading the 
earth in rows. He would follow cer¬ 
tain directions, planting, still plant¬ 
ing, until his seeds were gone, and 
then return to some source of supply, 
often to the Pennsylvania orchards. 
From Licking County, Ohio, Chap¬ 
man passed on with his bags of seeds 
into the forest and was seen no more 
until, in the spring of 1806, a pioneer 
settler in Jefferson County, Ohio, no¬ 
ticed a peculiar craft dropping down 
the Ohio river. With two canoe-loads 
of apple seeds lashed together, John 
Chapman had appeared again and was 
making for the Western frontier to 
plant orchards on the farthest verge 
(Continued on page 58) 
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No authentic portrait of John Bartram exists; his auto¬ 
graph, however, has been preserved 
