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CONTENTS.
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Title
Page
NOTE
PRELIMINARIES
6 SECTIONS [1]
[2] [3]
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[6]
THE
EVOLUTION OF HORTICULTURE
IN NEW ENGLAND:
I.
THE
EARLIEST COLONIES IN
NEW ENGLAND
II.
THE COLONIES OF
MASSACHUSETTS BAY
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Let us not, then, lament over the decay and oblivion into
which ancient writers descend: they do but submit to the great law of nature,
which declares that all sublunary shapes of matter shall be limited in their
duration, but which decrees, also, that their elements shall never perish.
Generation after generation, both in animal and vegetable life, passes away, but
the vital principle is transmitted to posterity, and the species continue to
flourish. Thus, also, do authors beget authors, and having produced a numerous
progeny, in a good old age they sleep with their fathers, that is to say, with
the authors who preceded them and from whom they had stolen.
W. Irving.
NOTE.
HE object of this volume is to present, in a
concise and attractive form, the history of the art of gardening, as it has been
evolved in New England from its earliest plantations to the present day.
Numerous as have been the
publications upon horticulture and agriculture during late years, with the
exception of the introductory chapter of the History of the Massachusetts
Horticultural Society published in 1880, which embraces a record of horticulture
in the United States up to the year 1829, I am not aware that a similar record,
so far as it relates solely to New England, has been offered to the public.
The above mentioned interesting
chapter, compiled by Mr. Robert Manning, the present efficient Secretary of the
Society, is invaluable, and to this I am indebted for material that had escaped
my previous researches, at least so far as these refer to the Eastern States.
In the preparation of these pages, I
have endeavored to exercise that patience, diligence, and care which an interest
in any art or science should always command.
If the reader should discover certain
extraneous threads interwoven in the fabric, the presence of which has not been
recognized by me, he may safely impute the oversight to negligence rather than
to deliberate literary theft.
Whatever may be its valuation, and
however egotistical it may seem to speak the truth, its fabrication has afforded
a source of great pleasure in comparatively leisure hours, and has awakened an
increased interest in all that pertains directory or indirectly to horticulture.
If it should exert in any way a similar effect upon the minds of other
individuals, however extended or limited may be their knowledge of the unfolding
of the gardening art in England, it has answered the purpose in view.
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