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whether to deliver the paquet, of which he knew noth- 

 ing, what it contained or who had sent it ; but after 

 consultation with his friends despatched it as directed. 

 The Queen, supposing this to be an extraordinary hope- 

 ful lad, had the youthful Young brought to London 

 and placed under the care of the well-known Dr. Hill. 

 300 Pd. Sterl. was appropriated annually for his use, 

 and after a time Young came back to America, with 

 the title, with a large peruque and a small stipend, and 

 fulfilled none of the hopes he had aroused. Some 

 years ago, indeed, he had printed at Paris an exhaustive 

 catalogue of plants presumably in his garden ; but I 

 found that his garden is very extensive if this or that 

 plant of the catalogue is not to be found in his garden 

 he answers with his customary bombast that all 

 America, field and forest, is his garden.* 



The taste for gardening is, at Philadelphia as well 

 as throughout America, still in its infancy. There are not 

 yet to be found many orderly and interesting gardens. 

 Mr. Hamilton's near the city is the only one deserving 

 special mention. Such neglect is all the more astonish- 

 ing, because so many people of means spend the most 

 part of their time in the country. Gardens as at present 

 managed are purely utilitarian pleasure-gardens have 

 not yet come in, and if perspectives are wanted one 

 must be content with those offered by the landscape, 

 not very various, what with the still immense forests. 



* Recently Mr. Humphrey Marshall has made himself known 

 by his American Grove, + or Alphabetical list of all North 

 American trees and shrubs, published at Philadelphia in 8vo. 

 1785. He lives in Pensylvania, in Chester county, and offers 

 to furnish at a moderate price collections of seeds or of living 

 plants noticed in his catalogue. 



