242 Notices of some of the Gardens and Nurseries 



purchased by him at the sale of Mr. Hibbert's plants ; they were 

 full of blossoms. Here was also a very good collection of Orange 

 and Lemon trees, which are arranged around the garden, along the 

 margins of the walks, during summer. Mr. McArran has flowered 

 the night-blooming Cereus every season ; he has also succeeded in 

 keeping the flowers in an excellent state of preservation. Attached 

 to the garden is a museum, aviary, he. 



New York, March. — The gardens in and around New York, em- 

 brace several fine collections of plants. Being a central situation for 

 the exportation of plants to the northern and western parts of the 

 country, they are, as might be expected, well stocked with such 

 species and varieties, as are more immediately in demand. In some 

 departments perhaps they excel, in others they are surpassed. 

 There are not probably near so many fine private gardens, compared 

 with Boston or Philadelphia, as at either of these places ; the 

 taste for Horticulture is not so great, nor the desire to possess rare 

 plants so common as in our own vicinity ; the taste is, however, upon 

 the increase, and the vicinity of New York will, before long, present 

 many fine residences. Our memoranda are made without any regard 

 to the order we visited tliem : — 



Nursery of M. Floy and Sons, Broadivay. — This place is well 

 known for its fine collection of seedling Camellias. Mr. Floy has 

 also a nursery at Haerlem, which, we believe, is well stocked with a 

 great variety of trees, shrubs, herbaceous plants, &c., and which he 

 cultivates very successfully. In the green-house department he does 

 not however excel, except in his fine collection of American seed- 

 hng Camellias ; his stock of foreign varieties is not so good as many 

 other collections in his neighborhood. In the Camellia, Mr. Floy 

 has probably done as. much towards improving the varieties of this 

 splendid family, as any nurserymen, not even excepting Messrs. 

 Chandler & Booth, of the Vauxhall Nursery near London, who, 

 Mr. Loudon somewhere observes, have done more in a few years, 

 in originating new varieties, than the Chinese during their whole 

 lives. We were ourselves, when four or five years since we first 

 saw his plants, astonished at the beauty and elegance of several va- 

 rieties ; but he has since had come into flower, several new and still 

 more gorgeous kinds. We do not at this time recollect the names of 

 all he lias raised, and not having his catalogue before us, we enume- 

 rate the following : Camellia japonica var. Hosackii, Wardii, Lor- 

 rillardii, (now leucantha) Noveboracensis, Stevenii, Clintonia, HofF- 

 manii, Franklmii, Virginica, Bostonia, Floyii, crassiflora coruscans, 

 margaretha ; the two latter flowered for the first time from the seed 

 the past winter ; we had the pleasure of seeing the coruscans when 

 in its prime, and we think it one of the most rich and truly splendid, 

 he has ever raised. Margaretha we also saw, but the beauty of the 

 flower was ))ast, and we could not form a correct opinion of its char- 

 acter ; we should suppose, however, it might be similar to Gousso- 



