The science of horticulture. Including a practical system for the management of fruit trees, arranged on demonstrative physiological principles / illustrated by sketches, in twelve plates. With a commentary on the works of Bradley, Hitt, Miller, Forsyth, Knight, Kirwan, Sir Humphry Davy, and Mrs. Ibbotson. By Joseph Hayward.

  • Hayward, Joseph, active 1798-1824.
Date:
1818
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Credit: The science of horticulture. Including a practical system for the management of fruit trees, arranged on demonstrative physiological principles / illustrated by sketches, in twelve plates. With a commentary on the works of Bradley, Hitt, Miller, Forsyth, Knight, Kirwan, Sir Humphry Davy, and Mrs. Ibbotson. By Joseph Hayward. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A reference to those authors will shew how trifling has been the improvement in Horticulture, since Bradley and Miller, and the reason is ob¬ vious : however great the acuteness of their obser¬ vations, and ingenious their description of certain Effects, they do not appear to have had a correct comprehension of the Cause. Feeling convinced of this, and of the necessity of adopting a different course from that pursued by my predecessors, I have on all occasions reverted to Nature, and to original and elementary principles or causes ; and hence, tracing effects by regular demonstrative experiments, I have been enabled to deduce and arrange a System of Practice which has produced the most desirable results. However, I am not disposed to arrogate au¬ thority, nor so self-sufficient as to wish my asser¬ tions to be taken for granted, but feel it due to every person to be allowed a fair opportunity of forming their own judgment, and of being con¬ vinced, by the fair means of explanation and illus¬ tration, that their long established practice is in¬ sufficient, before they are required to give it up in favor of a new mode. With this view I have adopted the plan of a Commentary on the different Authors I have thought it necessary to refer to, and where their observations and opinions could be compressed in my own language, without the possibility of mis-