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68 VISITS TO COUNTRY PLACES. 



projyrcss. We noticed here the new strawberries, Sir Ilarry, Sir Charles Napier, 

 mill Admiral Diiiuliis, which have been so popular nbroad. AVe noted also, a 

 new Laiilaiia, Lutoa supi-rba, which will connnand allciitioii, as will Ardisia 

 fructo allia, and a hardy Erica, E. vul<raris, which withstood the dreadful winter 

 of 18.');>-5(). Mr. llovcy has a new seediiufr Arljor vitie, somewhat lil<e A urea, 

 but which promises to be more valuable ; many secdliufr varieties of Azaleas, 

 yellow, iVc., and hardy; he has found Cephalotaxus and Podocarpus hardy. 

 A new weepinjr elm, a cut-leaved oak, and the weeping /oiot/am willow, a new 

 and most beautiful tree, the ])urple sycamore, &c. &c, &.C., we find noted in our 

 hasty pencillinjrs, and here, as well as at Dr. Gray's, we saw with great admira- 

 tion the neglected Khododendron imnctatum, a native variety, loaded with flowers, 

 and of a ])eudulous habit. Mr. llovey has a line stock of Siberian Arbor vitic, 

 and also of Yirgilia lutea. In short, this establishment deserves well of the country, 

 and is to Boston what Mr. Buist's is here — a never-failing resource for new plants. 

 Every dei»artment receives attention, though, of course, there are spedulilies, 

 which they attend to more as personal matters, than as nurserymen. Among 

 fruits, the speciality is the Pear, of which they have an immense collection, 

 including everi/ known varietj/ to be found in France, Belgium, or England, and 

 of native kinds by far the most complete collection, emljracing over one livndred 

 sorts. Nothing remains to be added but the new kinds, as they yearly make their 

 apjiearance. 



But they pride themselves on their collection of specimen trees, numbering 

 tirentii-jive hundred, the oldest ])lanted in 1842; these are all bearing trees, planted 

 round\\\Q grounds, and not through them. The crop of pears in 1856 was 5U0 

 bushels, quite equal to any produce in Europe. 



Of apples, they have one long walk, bordered on each side with 300 trees, of 

 that number of varieties, and now just coming into bearing ; they were set out in 

 1844, but as they prune them iu to make dwarfs of them, they are very slow in 

 bearing. 



Among shrubs, their speciality is the collection of "American Plants," as the 

 English call them, viz: Rhododendrons, Azaleas, (fee. No such collection is to 

 be found except at Bagshot, and the great American ])lant growers around that 

 ])art of the vicinity of London. They have many hundred jiowering plants of 

 all the best Belgian and English hardy sorts, and thousands of seedlings of their 

 own. The ground is peaty (one part of it), and they grow iu perfection. 



Among hardy plants, a speciality is the herbaceous Peonies, of which they have 

 great quantities, including the very latest new ones ; and another, and pcrhai)S 

 greatest of all in the ornamental department out-doors, is their Japan lilies, of 

 which they had two beds of 1000 bulbs, embracing some of the finest seedlings yet 

 known. One bed was a treat well worth going from Philadelphia to see. These 

 are favorite flowers, and much time has been devoted to the production of new sorts 

 by hybridization with the native hardy and old Tiger species ; these seedlings 

 partake of the hardy character of those, while they are far more brilliant than the 

 imiiorted Japan plant. 



In doors, the speciality is the Camellia, of which they have a most extensive 

 collection of some 300 varieties, and upwards of twenty seedlings, among which 

 are some very superior kinds. Two of them they intend to offer for sale this 

 year ; one is a remarkable production, having flowers of four colors on the same 

 plant, and holding that character now in the Gfth year of its flowering. Another 

 is almost a scarlet; the Mass. Hort. Soc. gave them the medal of $60 for this 

 about three years ago. Drawings of them will soon be sent out. Such are 

 some of the more j)rominent things noted at this establishment, where, however 



