Excerpt from Annals of Horticulture: In North America for the Year 1890, a Witness of Passing Events and a Record of Progress It has been the desire to place in each volume the result of some unique investigation which should represent the status of a particular branch of American horticulture. In the vol ume for 1889, the Catalogue of American Kitchen Garden Vegetables occupied this place, and constituted the kernel of the book. It was expected that the present volume should contain a complete annotated census of all native North Amer ican plants and their horticultural varieties, which have been introduced into cultivation, and reference is made to it upon page 35. But it is so difficult to collect data upon which to elaborate such a census, and the botany of our cultivated plants is so little understood, that it was thought best to post pone the list and the size to which the volume has grown has. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.