6-656: American Agriculturist is an agricultural publication for farm, home, and garden in the United States, previously published in English and German editions. Its subtitle varied over time: for the Farm, Garden, and Household (1869), for the Household, Garden, Farm (1877). It often included the tag-line Full of Good Things for Everybody, in City, Village, and Country (1877), etc. Solon Robinson
12-587: A weekly publication. A German language edition for immigrants and 5 regional editions were established. Advertisers included cabinet organ, melodeon, and other instrument companies, gelatin and blanc mange brands, cooking tool offerings such as horseradish graters, farm equipment including grist mills , seed and plant businesses, steam engines, wires, watches, washers, trusses, patent companies, cutters, book subscriptions, and Great American Tea Company notices. Columns exposing quackery were run and medical advertisements were prohibited. Henry Morgenthau Jr. owned
18-574: Is currently owned by Farm Progress . It was founded by Anthony B. Allen and his brother Richard L. Allen . It was published in 1843 by Saxton & Miles in New York City. In 1856 it was taken over by Orange Judd and became a publication of the Orange Judd Company. The publication absorbed several others and was eventually published in Springfield, Massachusetts . Originally monthly it became
24-474: The paper by 1924. Romeyn Berry and Manly Miles also wrote for the paper. Joseph Harris (writer) also wrote for the paper. Solon Robinson Solon Robinson (October 21, 1803 – November 3, 1880) was a writer, journalist, agriculturist, and pioneer. He wrote for the New York Tribune and American Agriculturist and published several books including Hot Corn , a bestseller. Robinson
30-566: Was from Connecticut and settled in Crown Point, Indiana with his family. He formed a squatters union . He was an agriculturist. Robinson was one of the prominent reporters at Horace Greeley 's New York Tribune . He joined the paper in 1852. Robinson wrote about Florida during the Reconstruction Era convention writing the 1868 Florida Constitution . In 1868, due to poor health, he semi-retired to Jacksonville, Florida. Robinson helped
36-446: Was one of its writers. It was illustrated by numerous engravings. In 1885, it published a Family Cyclopaedia . In 1889, it published The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening : A Practical and Scientific Encyclopedia of Horticulture for Gardeners and Botanists, (in 4 Volumes), which was edited by George Nicholson , This became the basis of the RHS 's Dictionary of Gardening . The publication
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