Nurserymen and Horticulture in Nineteenth-Century Rochester, New York

How many a fine farm have we all known not half cultivated growing comparatively wild...

Patrick Barry

Productiveness

Land

Labor

Capital

Rochester, NY (1838)

- Alexis de Tocqueville

he will plant a garden and rent it just as the trees are coming into bearing; he will clear a field and leave others to reap the harvest; he will take up a profession and leave it, settle in one place and soon go off elsewhere

transforms what is only a tame meadow and a bleak aspect into an Eden of interest and delights… It gives a bit of soil, too insignificant to find a place in the geography of the earth’s surface, such an importance in the eyes of its possessor that he finds it more attractive than countless acres of unknown and unexplored ‘territory.'

"Planted one tree where we should have planted

Twenty

...allowed weeds to grow up around doors and windows, instead of

Flowers.

-Patrick Barry

there are few places within the limits of our city, where an hour can be spent more profitably and pleasantly than at the Mount Hope Garden