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Thomas Bridgeman
from The Fruit Cultivator’s Manual, 1845
Florist and author. He was born in Berkshire England, and emigrated to the United States in 1824, where he opened a seed store. He married Catherine Hannah Eastmond on May 23, 1807. He died in New York city. He was the author of the following books:
- The Young Gardener’s Assistant (1832)
- Florist’s Guide (1835)
- The Kitchen Gardener’s Instructor (1836)
- Report of the Committee On Horticulture (1844)
- The Fruit Cultivator’s Manual (1844)
- The American Gardener’s Assistant (1867) (completed by his son, Alfred Bridgeman)
Many of these books went through mutiple editions.
- Notice of The Young Gardener’s Assistant (7th edition) (March 18, 1840, text “A” — Alexander’s Weekly Messenger) (A brief notice)
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- Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1943.
- Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches) , Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978. (Second printing 1979)
- Thomas, Dwight and David K. Jackson, The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849, Boston: G. K. Hall & Sons, 1987.
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