THE 



AMERICAN 



GARDENER'S MAGAZINE. 



JUNE, 1835. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. Notices of some of the Gardens and Nurseries in the neigh' 

 horhood of New York and Philadelphia ; taken from Memoranda 

 made in the 3Ionth of Blarch last. By C. M. H. 



[Continued from p. 1C6.] 



Nurseries of D. ^ C Landreth. — This fine establishment we 

 were unfortunately deprived of the pleasure of seeing in our recent 

 visit. In the fall of 1831 we walked through part of the grounds, 

 and although we were then unprepared to take notes, yet we care- 

 fully observed several of the fine things which enrich this place — an 

 account of which we think will not be uninteresting. What struck 

 us very particularly at that time, was several fine hedges of the Ar- 

 borvitae of both species (Thuja occidentalis and orientalis), which 

 were beautifully grown, and so thick that they completely screened 

 one part of the garden from the other. We have never since seen 

 anything of the kind at other places in that neighborhood, or in our 

 vicinity ; and when we observe the Arborvita; in our gardens, it reminds 

 us of this beautiful hedge, and we are astonished, that they are not 

 made to take the place of many of the unsightly ones which exist 

 in many gardens, disfiguring the grounds with their naked branches, 

 and presenting, when divested of their foliage in the winter, a bare 

 and scraggy appearance. The object of a hedge is generally to 

 keep from the grounds cattle and other animals ; though in some 

 instances, they are only set to obscure one part of the garden from 

 the other, or to hide some disagreeable object from the eye. In the 

 latter case, we are sure nothing can be more desirable than the Ar- 

 borvitae ; the beautiful deep green appearance of the foliage in the 

 summer, and its cheerful and lighter hue in the winter, added to 

 which its agreeable odor, at once give it a claim over any deciduous 

 shrub. If the object of a hedge is entirely to keep out animals, we 



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