[Text: Edgar Allan Poe, Notice of Bridgeman's The Gardener's Assistant,
from Alexander's Weekly Messenger, March 18, 1840, p. 2, col. 4.]
We perceive by the advertisement in another column, that our
friends Hirst and Dreer, have issued a very excellent work on the Kitchen
Nursery, Fruit and Flower Garden, and other branches of the Farm department,
called the YOUNG
GARDINER'S ASSISTANT,
by Thomas Bridgeman, of New York. It is for sale at their Seed store, No.
97 Chesnut street. Among other important matters it contains the celebrated
discovery on "Terra-Culture," as described in Senate Document No.
23, of the 3d Session of the 25th Congress, and therein estimated at hundreds
of millions of day's labor, and "worth more to the community than all
the discoveries of the present age combined--the application of steam not
excepted." For the purchase of which secret an application has been made
to the 26th Congress, by the discoverer, for a sum equal to five cents
from each individual of the United States, or about a million dollars
of our resources.
[This notice was first attributed to Poe by Clarence S. Brigham, Edgar
Allan Poe's Contributions to Alexander's Weekly Messenger, 1943, pp.
59-60.]
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