Identifier: meehansmonthlyma91899phil (find matches)
Title: Meehans' monthly : a magazine of horticulture, botany and kindred subjects
Year: 1891 (1890s)
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Subjects: Agriculture
Publisher: Philadelphia : Thomas Meehan & Sons
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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noreason why thousands should be made to sufferbv a change in plant names, because credit forthe original was suffered to sleep for a century. AlfkHD Bridgeman.—The firm of AlfredBridgeman, Seedsman, of New York, is anotherinstance of the long-continued business of aworthy founder. Thomas Bridgeman was anEnglish gardener, born in Berkshire, who cameto New York in T824, leased land on what isnow 874 Broadway, and at once built green-houses, and sold seeds. Like so many of thesrardeners of the Old World, at that date, hewas a man of broad intelligence, and he wrotevaluable works on fruits, vegetables andflowers. His Young Gardeners Assistantwent through several editions, and has a goodsale even unto this day. He died in 1850.His son, Alfred Bridgeman, succeeded to hisfathers business, and well maintains thefathers record. At present, Mr. Bridgemangives his personal interest to the greenhousesaud nursery at Astoria. Mr. Geo. Lorenz isthe manager of the citv seed house. VOL.IX Pr,^^E K
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l> ,.. i^^ A,-.^-s VM^*A1 IC 11 -• k A SOLI DAGO NEMORALIS. GROVE GOLDEN-ROD.NATURAL ORDER, COMPOSIT.^. SOLIDAGO NEMORALIS, Aitoo.—Stem often corymbose at the summit; leaves spathulateoblong and oblanceolate, renateserrate, or entire, roughish-pubescent. Darlingtons Flora Cestrica. See also Grays Synoptical Flora, Grays Manualof the Botany of the Northern United States, Chapmans Flora of the Southern United States, Woods Class-Bookof Botany, and Britton and Browns Illustrated Flora. The plan of this work is to give in the firstplace pictures of our native flowers, botanical-ly accurate, and as nearly perfect artistically asthe drawings can be made,—and in the nextplace to take them as object lessons in thebroad field of human interest wherein the plantillustrated may have a share. In this instance,the description of the pretty- golden-rod illus-trated is taken from the local Flora of ChesterCounty, Pennsylvania, by Dr. Darlington,because the specimen chosen for the drawinggre

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