VALUE OF GREEN-HOUSES TO INVALIDS. 



for the valley of the Connecticut, visited Springfield, Northampton, Amherst, and Green- 

 field. "Greenfield is a small town, tisw, straggling, and unfinished, as aZUhese country- 

 towns are." These Connecticut valley towns, we believe, are about two hundred years 

 old! For the first time he now appears to be awalie to the beautiful scenery of our coun- 

 try. In this jaunt he is received by every one on whom he calls, withcourtesv and mark- 

 ed attention, and condescends to give a trifling credit for it. His manners r.end with the 

 season, and probably had he sojourned during the summer among tlie Yankees, he might 

 have become as agreeable a man as an unpolished manner, and an uncouth provincial accent 

 in his language, would have permitted. He dashes on over the railway to Albany, stops a 

 day there, and goes down the Hudson to Poughkeepsie in a steamboat, is disappointed in 

 its scenery — sees nothing to admire, and, in a car ride along the banks of the river to New- 

 York, makes up his mind that he " was not in a condition to form an adequate idea of 

 what its beauties in its summer garb really are!" 



From New-York to New-Haven, and thence to Boston. On the third day of April, 

 A. D. 1850, Professor JonxsTON leaves, for the last, as well as only time, we trust, the 

 shores of America, for England. We owe an apology to the reader for spending so much 

 time upon a subject so little to our taste as the one we have presented; but as we, in com- 

 mon with our agricultural and horticultural friends, had expected something in our own 

 line, from one who made high pretensions while here to instruct us in things both new and 

 important, we have noticed his book but to chronicle another instance of the sounding 

 brass and tinkling cymbal that so often greet us from our " Cis-Atlantic" teachers. We 

 have done it also as a thorough confirmation of the fact that a foreigner in " getting 

 up" a book of travels on America, has but to "steam" it across the Atlantic, trundle a 

 thousand or two miles over our railways, gather up half-a-dozen Champagne baskets of 

 travels, pamphlets, official reports of Legislatures, and societies— this last not much mat- 

 ter what — hold a conversation now and then with an ostler, tide-waiter, or barkeeper, 

 "steam" it home again with all possible despatch, and become a most accomplished 

 "professor" of book-making on America ! Jeffreys. 



THE VALUE OF GREEN-HOUSES TO INVALIDS. 



BY DR. STEVENS, NEW-YORK. 



We ask the especial attention of readers interested in the subject, to the following re- 

 marks, by one of the most distinguished physicians in the country, on the sanitary effects 

 of green-houses. At a moderate cost, many a family might enjoy the delightful bloom and 

 fragrance of exotics in winter, with the satisftiction of providing for an invalid member of 

 that family, the soothing influences of the air of IMadeira or Cuba. In a public point of 

 view the matter is even more important — as Dr. S. truly suggests. Ed. 



Dear Sir: Having for many years suffered from a pulmonary complaint, I am led to 

 avail myself of your Journal, to offer some observations on a subject lying mid-way be- 

 tween our respective callings. Some ten or twelve years since, in visiting the green-house 

 of Mr. Niblo, then my neighbor in Broadway, during the winter, I found the atmosphere 

 exceedingly congenial. It abated my cough, rendered the expectoration loose and easy, 

 softened the skin, and induced a comfortable state of feeling, approaching to exhileration. 

 Wishing to have such an atmosphere at command, I constructed a cold grapery, in which. 



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