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calculated to endure the frigidness of our winters, and at the same time 

 so surpassing lovely, must ere long be much sought for. 



" From Mr. Saul we learned a most singular fact in arborary history. 

 Many trees taken from a high southern latitude can endure the extremes 

 of our climate, and tlirive better than those taken from a latitude as 

 far north as our own. He has in his nursery several kinds which are 

 indigenous to the Andes of South America and the Himalayas of Asia, 

 and which thrive exceedingly well; while other kinds taken from 

 California and other places farther north can scarcely be acclimated. 

 This he accounts for, in the elevation of the soil in which they grew, 

 the peculiar condition of the atmosphere and the universal hardness 

 and firm texture of the trees and plants which are natives of the region 

 in which they are found. 



"An India Rubber tree, which he has reared in a greenhouse, we 

 regarded here as a great curiosity. These trees require much warmth, 

 yet are quite easily kept alive. It, when cut into, sends out a juice 

 much like our common milk weed, which soon dries and assumes a 

 sticky and elastic nature. 



" During each of the past two years there have been imported into the 

 nursery 100,000 Norway Firs ; 50,000 Quince stocks are annually put 

 out in the grounds for the purpose of improving the quality of Pears 

 by engrafting, and every other kind of fruit trees proportionally. We 

 have not the exact statistics, but we are within bounds in giving the 

 number of varieties of Apple trees at 500, the Plums at 100, and 

 Apricots at 50, and the number of fruit trees now ready for setting out 

 at 500,000. Last year there were fruited here 200 kinds of Pears. 



" It does the olfactory nerves of one good to enter his Rose grounds — 

 they cover nearly an acre — half an acre of them lie in a body. The 

 fragrance arismg from such a mass of Roses is enough to breathe 

 sweetness over the entire village. 



"The varieties of ornamental trees, shrubs, Vines, and plants amount 

 to 1000 at least ; but as a mere bare description of ^this nursery would 

 fill columns, we will let this suffice for the present." 



A FEW WORDS ABOUT ORCHARD HOUSES. 

 I READ with much interest your notice of Mr. Rivers's Nursery, 

 Sawbridgevvorth, in the last number of the Florist, but I was not 

 interested with your account of the Orchard-house. 



Nearly at the commencement of your article you say_ that " The 

 cultivation of fruit trees in pots dates back but a short period, and has 

 grown up, as it were, from our unfavourable springs of late having 

 rendered out-door crops of wall-fruit very precarious. But, un- 

 questionably, the impulse given to the erection of glass buildings of tliis 

 description must be attributed to the removal of the duty on glass, 

 which enables this useful article now to be purchased at a cheap rate.' 

 And a little further, you say that " We have at all times strenuously 

 urged that orchard-houses are a valuable auxiliary even to good 

 gardens, and in our opinion indispensable in exposed and cold 



