An inaugural discourse, delivered before the New-York Horticultural Society at their anniversary meeting, on the 31st of August, 1824 / by David Hosack.

  • Hosack, David, 1769-1835.
Date:
1824
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An inaugural discourse, delivered before the New-York Horticultural Society at their anniversary meeting, on the 31st of August, 1824 / by David Hosack. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

    26/50
    21 Vou have wisely provided a lectureship on botany and vegetable physiology. A new sub- ject of inquiry here opens to our view, and merits the particular notice of this Society. I refer to the philosophy of vegetation, the doc- trines and principles of agricultural chemistry, the composition of soils, and the operation of manures, all which have recently engaged the power- ful mind of Sir Humphrey Davy and other distinguished men. These are subjects, which^ in addition to the technical arrangements enter- ed into by the Lecturer, will also be embraced in his course of instruction, and cannot fail to be productive of important results. 8th. Another advantage which such an esta- blishment should possess, is that of exemplifying the principles of Ornamental Planting, or Land- scape Gardening. The ground should be select- ed of such form and variety as will admit of such decoration. And in the cultivation of the various plants of the collection, their distribution may ever be rendered subservient to this great object, and thereby become the means of spreading ex- tensively among our citizens a taste for one of the highest recreations that the human heart can