72 Calls at Gardens and Nurseries. 



Willott tliat they did not gather a bunch from the whole house last year — but 

 he hopes this season to make up the loss; he lias had good success in grow- 

 ing grapes, liaviiig raised some that weighed 21 Ihs. tlie bunch, at Mr. Breed's, 

 two or three years since. There is a stage at the back ofthepit, which is filled 

 wi;h geraniums, grown exceedingly well. Mr. Willott found some plants in 

 a very unhealthy state, and in need of immediate renovation, when he took 

 charge of the place. 



Hawthorn Grove, Dorchester, M. P. Wilder, Esq. — Jan. 15lh. This place, 

 the residence of Mr. Wilder throughout the year, consists of about fifteen 

 acres; most of which, with the exception of a large orchard and the garden, 

 is now occu[)ie(l by him as grass land. The house is very pleasantly situ- 

 ated, and partly surrounded with evergreens. We hope however Mr. Wilder 

 will make some improvements, by cutting away a few of the tallest, as they 

 obscure the house from view, especially in the summer, when the other de- 

 ciduous trees intermixed with the spruces, &.c. are in full foliage. Mr. Wild- 

 er contemplates making alterations and additions, one of which will be, to 

 build a new greenhouse or conservatory. The present greenhouse is very 

 old, and the situation rather damp, which greatly injures the plants; and a 

 collection as choice as he has gathered together, deserves a more healthy at- 

 mosphere than they at present enjoy. Nor can their beauty be truly rated 

 when placed in such a iiouse; for in those where lightness and elegance of 

 structure are predominant, it contributes much to set otT the splendor of its 

 inhabitants. 



Mr. Wilder may in truth be considered an amateur; his plants are under 

 his own management and care, and they will certainly not suffer by compari- 

 son with those under the eye of experienced gardeners. We have spoken 

 before of the vigor and healtli of some of his plants, and it is mmecessary 

 to say they all partake of this character. Among the Camellias that will be 

 in flower in the course of a few days are the following, — Camellia japonica, 

 Russii, C. Elphinstonia, C. Welbankii, C. maliflura, C. Dorsettn, C. spe- 

 ciosa, C grandlssinia, C. inslgnis, and C. pra^gnans, the five latter of 

 which (we believe) have never flowered in the country. Mr. Wilder 

 shew us a colored plate of Dorsettii, and we should think if the flower 

 will at all resemble the plate, it must indeed be splendid ; elphinstonia we 

 saw last year, it is a little like the doulile striped, but less beautiful : speciosa 

 has a superb leaf; we think we never saw a more bold and promising bud 

 than that upon the variety called grandissima; it is indeed grand. Mr. 

 Wilder has a seedling coming into I)!oom which bids fair to be a great beauty ; 

 pensdiata, piBonifl.ira, doid)le white, single white, and fimbriata are ele- 

 gantly in bloom; the fimhriuta with its fine fringed snowy petals is just in 

 its prime ; we never saw a finer or lietter shaped flower ; for although an old 

 variety, from some cause or other, it is but seldom seen in our greenhouses. 

 The large i)lant of double white has a tew exjianded flowers. 



Mr. Wilder has a large plant of the Acacia longifulia six or eight feet 

 high, which will be one mass of bloom in February or March; A. lo- 

 phata is now in flower; Jambusa vulgaris is showing its fruit, and if placed 

 in a hot-house would probably ripen ; it is a native of the East Indies and is 

 there called tlie Rose-Apple ; it is an eminently beautiful shrub ; its clusters of 

 delicate white tassel-shaped flowers, contrasted with the dark green foliage, 

 and cinnamon colored shoots, has a lovely appearance ; its fruit is said to be so 

 powerfully perfumed witli rose water, that but one or two can be eaten. 

 There is here also two plants of the Strelitzea rapidly pushing into bloom. 

 Those pretty little plants the double wliite, j)urple and pink Primroses are 

 beginning to throw out their buds. But among the whole of the plants 

 nothing so much gratified us as one or two varieties of the all-beautiful and 

 fragrant tea rose — one in particular called the Anemone was delightful ; the 

 color is of the richest pink, the flower very double and somewhat resembling 



