GAEDENS AND GAKDENING AT MONTKEAL. 



and other berbaceous varieties, are grown plentifully ; but as tbe whole establishment 

 is intended for market purposes, we see even in the flower garden French Beans, 

 Raspberries, and other marketable fruits and vegetables, which must impress upon the 

 mind of the visitor something less than a tasteful • geniality. The spacious kitchen 

 garden is planted with some fine bearing Apple trees of very good varieties. We 

 purposely mention this garden among our first, because the people of Montreal think 

 it one of their best, as they never find a want of vegetables there. 



As for amateurs fond of seeing well-grown plants, we would direct their attention 

 to the fine collection of James Ferrier, Esq., under the care of Mr. Tatlor, a very 

 worthy young Scotchman, who deserves every possible credit for the zeal with which 

 he endeavors to recompense the generosity of his kind employer. In an elegant con- 

 servatory, though not entirely suitable for the growth of plants, we find, particularly 

 in the months of February and March, when Camellias, Azaleas, and some of his 

 handsome New Holland plants are in full bloom, that no place is more worthy a visit 

 than this. Among some of his finest green-house plants we only mention some very 

 handsome Conifers, viz., Araucaria excelsa, Cr7jptomeria Ja'ponica^ Cwpressus fnne- 

 hris, and several other smaller specimens, beside some elegant Acacias, such as puhcs- 

 ccns, armata, alata, grandis, &c. But we observe, in a small stove which joins the 

 conservatory, even some well-grown new and rare plants, as, for instance, that new 

 and splendid creeper from Java, Cissus discolor marmorea, Ccjihalotus foUicularis, 

 Begonia xanthina, Hydrangea Jajmnica, foliis, variegaiis, and several others. But 

 we find the surrounding of the dwelling in the summer season in a rather desolate 

 and apparently somevvhat neglected state, because of its having been previously over- 

 planted with trees, the roots of which seem, as is often the case, to have grown to the 

 heart of the proprietor; so much so, that at present they could not be cleared away 

 without aff"ecting it severely. 



Highly worth notice is the new garden, only since last year arranged, of one of the 

 most tasteful and enterprising gentlemen in this city ; we mean that of Henry Chap- 

 man, Esq., Durocher street. Beside a handsome little flower garden luxuriantly orna- 

 mented with the best annuals, herbaceous plants, hardy shrubbery, &c., we find a very 

 well constructed green-house and stove, which is filled with the best plants of latest 

 introduction ; and as the young and industrious gardener, Mr. Bergholz, a German, 

 is a first rate propagator, we find all the newest varieties in great multitudes about 

 the place ; so much so, that his employer, as we learn, is inclined to sell or exchange 

 the plants of which he has a large stock, which certainly will be a great advantage to 

 those who are anxious to get the newest varieties and their correct names ; and, in 

 fact, we are aware of no place in Canada or the United States where propagation is 

 conducted with greater care and attention, nor where it is rewarded with better suc- 

 cess ; so that even Mr. Stuart Low, a noted English nurseryman, at a recent visit to 

 this city, could not help placing this establishment at the head of all those which 

 he visited in America, as to the quantity of its new and well-grown valuable plants. 

 ,-) The stock of New Holland plants is well supplied, and in good propagation, all nice 

 ^^ bushy plants. The same may be said about the collection of herbaceous plants, among 





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