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the Massachusetts Horticultural Society's rooms hust spriui^ in full I)Ioom ; it 

 was couiplotcly covered with its snow-white blossoms ; it has now sixty buds. 

 Three or four plants of the Corraia virens were displaying their heauteous 

 liell-shaped pendulous flowers. Jlhododendron arhjreum hyhridum, with 

 six or eight flower buds, will make a tine show during the s|)ring. Mr. Pratt 

 has made some accessions to his collodion, among which are a number of 

 choice varieties of the Camellia japonicn, which look in good health. 



Mr. Pratt's greenhouse is entirely new, having been erected the last sum- 

 iner; it is heat wiih two brick flues, one only of which is used unless in 

 very severe weather. The stage consists of one range running the whole 

 length, with two tiers of shelves; one running up very steep from tlie walk, 

 which runs parallel with the hack wall, and the oth( r from the front walk, 

 about the same slope as the surfiice of the glass. Mr. McLellan keeps his 

 Camellias, Rhododendrons, and other [jlants which do not need much snn, 

 on the back stage ; the Camellias remain much longer in bloom than when 

 placed in front; the Cactuses Sta[)elias, &c. on shelves at the end of the 

 house. Every thing denoted cleanliness and attention. 



Roxbury, J. Le7nist, Esq. — Jan. 15//;. It is about two years since we visi- 

 ted the garden of Mr. Lemist; it was then under the management of our 

 valuable correspondent, J. AV. Kussell, now at Mount Auburn. When Mr. 

 Russell left he was succeeded by Mr. Murphy, who had the care for some 

 time. It is now kept in ils former beauty under the direction of INIr. T. Wil- 

 lott. Considering the disadvantages which Mr. Willoit labors under, (a leaky 

 and damp house) the plants look in excellent condition, and we tliink Mr. 

 Lemist must feel highly gratified in being so fortunate as to procure his assis- 

 tance. Considerable alterations and improvements have been made in the 

 disjiosition of the plants since we were here bel'ore ; they were then set out 

 in the soil in the back border; lint they grew too luxuriant in this situation, 

 and the Camidlias and Rhododendrons did not form any flower buds. Last 

 season, by the direction of Mr. Lemist, the jilants were taken up and a stage 

 erected, upon vvhich they are now placed. In the centre of the house, be- 

 tween the walk and the front wall, is one of the finest specimens of an or- 

 ange tree we have ever seen ; we counted on it upwards of eighty ripe fruit, 

 some of which measured five inches in diameter. Opposite to this, on the 

 back stage, is a plant of the Double White Camellia, with twenty expanded 

 flowers, nearly as beautiful as the one we saw at Mr. Cushing's the 13th ; — on 

 one i)lant of the Double Striped we counted sixteen full blown ; it is singular 

 what a difference there is in some plants of this variety; sometimes they 

 open almost red (which was the case with the one above), and again they 

 are as perfectly striped every petal, as a carnation ; we have some in bloom 

 in our own garden, which almost reseml)le the York and Lancashire Rose ; 

 a Single While and Lady Hume's Bhish had one or two flowers just ex- 

 panded on each ; how beautiful is ti\e latter ! Among nimierous large plants 

 is the Ficus elasticus ten feet high; a Rhododendron arboreimi hybriduin 

 with nearly twenty-five promising buds ; Strelitzia regin;', and Cvcas revo- 

 hjta; a fine plant of Acacia armata, with hundreds of buds, will be soon in 

 flower; some Eneas of the common kinds are displaying their delicate 

 little pendulous blossoms, and a large rpiantity of plants of the Daphne odora 

 are filling the house with their fragrance. 



We now, quilting the greeidiouse, ])assed round to a small house used for 

 forcing. In this is a ])it, nearly eighty feet hi length, filled with lettuces and 

 radishes, vvhich will be reiidy for pulling in a few days; we never observed 

 any look more green and healthy; some of the heads of lettuce being as 

 large and solid as a cabbage. They were set out in the pit about the 15th of 

 October ; and Mr. Willott has not lost a |)lanl from damjiness, which is very 

 remarkable at this season. The wood of the vines, which are planted on the 

 front borrler, is very fine, and will produce a good crop. We understood Mr. 



