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finest specimens in the country — •Deodars, Cryptomerias, Cuimmghamiaa, Yews, Mexican 

 and Californian Pines, &c. We observed with great pleasure much the finest groups of 

 Rhododendrons and Kalmias that we have met with in America — equahng mdeed what we 

 would see on an English lawn. The Catmchien^e varieties of Rhododendrons have been 

 fomid the most successful. The tender trees and plants over the gi'ounds are protected 

 ■witli cedai" boughs so neatly secm-ed that one might easUy mistake them for real cedar trees. 

 Tills is a great improvement on the common practice of using straw, which has a very 

 disagreeable eflTect in the landscape. We found ample and well ordered fruit and kitchen 

 gardens. Among tlie fi-uit trees we observed some very fak specimens of eqxdier and 

 queiwuille training. There is a large and elegant cold vinery with a cm-vilinear roof, the 

 first we beheve erected on the Hudson. The vines were being pruned, washed and laid 

 down in their winter quarters. There is also a conservatory and green-house adjoining the 

 mansion, containing a good stock of plants, some fine large specimens of Agaves, Cycas, 

 Tree Aloes, &c., &c. We shall some day have an opportunity of looking more minutely 

 over the collection of rare trees, and, no doubt, shall be able to collect some interesting facts. 



Qlover's Fruit Casts. — Leaving Wodenethe we called upon our friend !Mr. Glover, whose 

 beautiful casts of fruits have attracted so much attention. A whole day might be well 

 spent in examining his great cabinet. He is industriously collecting specimens from all 

 parts of the country, and if pomologists and societies would co-operate with him, he would 

 soon have the most complete cabinet of fruit models in the world. Besides the fruits, we 

 were shown casts and drawings of insects injurious to vegetation, a fine case of native birds, 

 and various other matters that show Mi". G. to be an enthusiastic naturalist, as well as a 

 man of genius and taste. We shall avail ourselves of Mr. Glover's skill and kindness to 

 illustrate and beautify our pages. 



Messrs. Hogg & Soli's EstiMulinunt., at TorJcville. — ^Here we had but a few minutes to 

 spare, and these we had to give to a walk through the houses, the most inviting depart- 

 ment on a December day. The collection of plants we found, as usual, complete and in fine 

 order. Xew structm'es for plants, just completed, and other improvements, show their 

 business to be conducted with energy and success. The Bignonia renusta (from Brazil) 

 trained to the rafters of the hot-house, was loaded with its brilliant orange scarlet bossoms, 

 a most gorgeous plant truly, worth a twenty miles journey to see, and especially at such a 

 season of the year. The Bouvardia leiantTia (one of Hartwig's Mexican discoveries, we 

 believe,) was another attractive object. A fine plant was loaded with large coronets of 

 flaming reddish scarlet blossoms. This is a great acquisition, blossoming at a season when 

 flowers are so much needed. The B. tripJiylla is a well known and most beautiful bed- 

 ding plant. This leiantlia resembles it in habit, having the leaves disposed in threes, and 

 the flowers on the ends of the young shoots. There is a yellow one {B. fiava\ we believe, 

 but we have not seen it. Has it blossomed yet with any of our plant gi-owers ? In the open 

 ground we saw a very fine specimen, six or eight feet high, of Torrega tazifolia., (the 

 Florida yew) which is there so hai'dy as to requu-e no protection. Juniperm excelsa., sev- 

 eral fiiije plants, proves quite hardy; a channing, erect, spiry tree, with clear, silvery 

 foUage. Some years ago, when the Messrs. Hogg moved to their present location, they 

 tliought they had left the gi-eat city pretty well in the distance, but it is gaining upon them 

 with rapid strides. New streets and avenuas are riuming their straight lines on all sides of 

 them. The gi*eat (talked of) park is almost adjoining tlicir gi'ounds — a fine situation — a 

 lai'ge, well wooded tract of gi'ound extending from tlie celebrated 3d Avenue to the East 

 river. We fear it will faU tln-ough, if it has not already, and that instead of a magnificent 



