Volume 1

A discourse read at the annual election meeting of the Caledonian Horticultural Society, December 5, 1822 : upon delivering the prize medal ... to Mr. Walter Henderson ... for his memoir on the culture of orange-trees in Scotland / [Andrew Duncan].

  • Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828
Date:
1823
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Credit: A discourse read at the annual election meeting of the Caledonian Horticultural Society, December 5, 1822 : upon delivering the prize medal ... to Mr. Walter Henderson ... for his memoir on the culture of orange-trees in Scotland / [Andrew Duncan]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and the most healthful of rural amusements. So much am I convinced of the healthfulness of Hor¬ ticulture, that I have put upon the door of my own little garden at St Leonard’s Hill, the words Hinc Sanitas. That recommendation of gardening, may be read by every passenger who allows him¬ self to enjoy one of the most romantic public walks which the environs of Edinburgh affords; -—the walk between the basaltic columns at the foot of Arthur’s Seat, and the Lake at the Vil¬ lage of Duddingston. But if I have recommended Horticulture to the inhabitants of Edinburgh by precept, I have recommended it still more by example. For in that small garden I may be found almost every good Summer morning, before breakfast, obtain¬ ing from it both amusement and health. And when you consider, Gentlemen, that I am still able, in the Seventy-ninth year of my age, now to address you from this chair, with vigour both of mind and body, very little impaired, you may, I think, view me as a living example of the healthfulness of Horticulture. I am far, indeed, from attributing solely to Horticulture the good health and long life with which it has been the will of a kind Providence to bless me. But I am convinced that gardening, has been a power¬ ful auxiliary both to my health and happiness. And I have no doubt that it may prove equally agreeable, and equally useful, to every country Clergyman.