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observations now, and this fact will be impressed upon your memory. Crops of 

 Cabbages or Broccolies, rows of Peas and Beans, &c., wlaich have been crowded 

 together, are now the dens of mildew and insects, while those provided with plenty 

 of room have been kept in health by sweet air and bright suns. Determine which 

 rows of Raspberries shall be rooted up, which Strawberiy plants will be better away, 

 and, having formed the resolution, do not forget to execute it when the desolations 

 of winter have contracted the productions, and seem to give them space enough. 



The eifects produced by the various colours of flowers in combination and in con- 

 trast, may now be advantageously recorded, either for imitation or alteration next 

 year. For example, I have in my garden some six-year-old scarlet Geraniums, 

 which I annually plant in various situations, generally surrounding them with 

 flowers of a more shrubby growth, and of a contrasted colour. This year I planted 

 round these tall stems some seedlings of a minor Convolvulus, of a much darker 

 blue than the common variety, and as its growth has been very rampant, the plants 

 have been twined with the branches of the Geraniums. The eifect of the brilliant 

 blues and deep scarlets, and the light and dark green of the foliage has been very 

 striking, and I shall endeavour to adopt the same arrangement next year. So in 

 reference to other things. Some combinations I have found to be any thing but 

 graceful, while others are worthy of being perpetuated. These various results will 

 fade from the memory unless now distinctly noticed, and the benefit of experience 

 in this manner will be lost. 



Nothing teaches like Nature : and the amateur may receive fine lessons on taste 

 by watching and criticising her equisite painting. Observe the hedgerows at 

 various seasons, and you will learn what diff"erent new arrangements your parterres 

 admit of. Bend your attention to the lights and shades produced by the ever-vary- 

 ing combinations of the fields and the woods, and you may transfer some beauties to 

 your shrubberies. The eye and the heart in this way will find plenty to do, and 

 you will become not only an admirer but also a co-adjutator of Flora, the tasteful 

 observer of whose footsteps will often be able to heighten the beauty of his mistress 

 by a chaplet of his own creation. 



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BARTRAM's garden, PHILADELPHIA. 



It was the writer's intention to confine himself in these notices to those fine trees 

 in his own immediate neighborhood, and suggest to other pens the pleasure they 

 might confer on the readers of the Horticulturist by similar notes of their own 

 localities ; but being familiar with the far famed locality, Bartram's Garden, from 

 whence the artist has taken his present illustration, it will not come amiss to give 

 my subject a wider scope. 



And first, omission must not be made to thank the present owner, Mr. Andrew 

 M. Eastwick, for the great care with which every thing any way related to the 

 great father of American Botany is preserved and cared for ; from the old house he 



