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only performs its work admirably but consumes 

 an exceedingly small quantity of fuel. As 

 we brought away some sketches of the con- 

 struction of this very cheap and simple kind 

 of vinery, fruit, or plant house, we will endeav- 

 or to give them, with the necessary diagrams, 

 in our next number, because we are confident 

 that they will be even more generally useful 

 (especially for foreign grapes) in the United 

 States than in England. We may add that 

 we saw in the different structures, fruit trees 

 and vines of all kinds growing, both in borders 

 and in pots, and all in the most admirable 

 state of health and productiveness. 



Mr. Rivers' establishment is famous, on 

 both sides of the Atlantic, for its collection of 

 roses. Hence we saw acres of the finest vari- 

 eties propagated and ready for sale here. Al- 

 though the rose season was past, yet the 

 perpehials, which are at all times more or less 

 in bloom, were gay with the finest flowers. — 

 The two sorts which particularly attracted our 

 attention, were Geante des BataillcssLnd Stand- 

 ard of Marengo. Both these new perpetual 

 roses are superb varieties — the color, of that 

 rich deep crimson which may l>e described as 

 a dark fiery- red. Some large plots covered 

 wholly with Geante des Batailles, profusely 

 covered with blossoms, looked like a rich green 

 carpet embroidered with superb boquets of 

 dark crimson roses. Both these sorts, and es- 

 pecially the first, are most abundant bloomers 

 in September and October, and will speedily 

 find their way into every garden, being as 

 hardy and as fragrant as a common June rose. 

 Among the freest flowering of the perpetual 

 roses was Baron Prevost, a fine rose-colored 

 variety well known in our gardens at home. 



Overhanging the road which passes through 

 the nurseries, is a sloping terrace of turf, above 

 or behind which Mr. Rivers' house stands. 

 This terrace is prettily dotted with rare weep- 

 ing trees and with standard perpetual roses, gay 

 with flowers at almost all seasons. Among 



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these, a very striking effect is produced by 

 some grand specimens of standards produced 

 by grafting the Ayrshire and Sempervirens 

 roses on gigantic stocks 7 or 8 feet high. — 

 Their branches grow out on all sides with a 

 careless freedom, drooping to the groimd like 

 those of the weeping willow, and forming the 

 finest possible rose-pictures. 



It would be easy to fill pages with accounts 

 of beautiful roses, but, as after all, we should 

 not probably give so accurate and definite an 

 idea of them as our readers would get by ex- 

 amining Mr. Rivers' Rose Catalogue, we 

 shall not continue our remarks further than to 

 say that we saw thousands of the Mannetti 

 rose, which is very extensively propagated here 

 as a stock upon which to work the new and 

 rare sorts. It has three great merits : 1st, 

 that it is easily budded: 2nd, that it grows 

 freely from slips, like the common China rose ; 

 3rd, that it rarely, or never, produces suckers. 

 We saw a parent plant of this variety here 

 which has been growing in one place for 8 or 

 10 years past, and has shown no symptoms of 

 throwing up suckers during the whole time, 

 though the ground has been constantly stirred 

 and dug around it. The Celine is another 

 variety also much used as a stock. 



We must now jot down a few notes which 

 we made respecting some of the most orna- 

 mental and striking hardy trees and shrubs, 

 of which a large but still choice collection is 

 grown for sale hei-e. We shall confine or.r 

 remarks to those, as yet, scarcely known in 

 the United States, but which from their hardi- 

 ness and conspicuous beauty in the pleasure 

 grounds or shrubbery, well deserve immediate 

 introduction. 



One of the prettiest and most striking small 

 trees for the lawn, is a new Weeping Willow, 

 which has hitherto borne the name in this 

 nursery of the "American Weeping Willow." 

 It is, however, we think, a misnomer, as it 

 came originally from France, and there is no 



