in the neighborhood of New York and Philadelphia. 245 



The green-house is not very extensive, but it contains, however, many 

 fine plants. Mr. Dunlap has much under his care, and finds but httle 

 time to devote to the green-house ; notwithstanding this, the plants 

 look well, particularly hisCaniollias ; he has raised several seedlings, 

 and judging fi'om the foliage, (which, however, is rather an uncertain 

 indication of a fine kind,) we should think some of them might prove 

 very beautiful. ]Mr. Dunlap has raised a seedling plant of the Thea 

 viridis, impregnated with the pollen of the Camellia japonica ; it 

 nearly resembles the Tea in foliage, but the flowers may be different. 

 He has also raised a fine seedling variety of the Primula pramitens, 

 with a delicate fringed edge ; it is much more desirable than its pa- 

 rent. We here observed the finest specimens of Acacia dealbata and 

 decurrens we have ever seen ; they were covered with their showy, 

 exquisite blossoms ; verticillata was also in full flower. Mr. Dunlap 

 had plants of Cactus Jenkensonii, with large pods of seed nearly ripe ; 

 he has a good collection of geraniums. Most of the Camellias had 

 shown blossom ; C. japonica var. Colvillii, a rare kind, had just shed 

 the petals of its last flowers. Mr. Dunlap has a fine stock of Dahlias, 

 which he had then in a frame, and they were just pushing their shoots ; 

 he has raised several fine seedlings, for which, at the Dahlia exhibi- 

 tion of the N. Y. Horticultural Society, last fall, he received the first 

 premium ; the names are given at page 157. He has also been very 

 successful in flowering several of the finest varieties. The soil of 

 Mr. Buckner's garden, is strong, rich, and moist, and well suited to 

 their growth. 



Scat of Nathaniel Prime, Esq., Hell-Gate, March. — This place 

 is well known, as containing one of the finest ranges of forcing 

 houses in the vicinity of New York. These have been built within 

 a few years, and the vines, peaches, &:c. planted in them, have just 

 come into bearing. Tlie whole is under the management of Mr. 

 Hyslop, who appears well acquainted with his profession. Tliere is 

 also here, a green-house, and a small forcing house, which have been 

 built several years ; the former was filled with a variety of plants, 

 which looked extremely well. In the small forcing house Mr. Hys- 

 lop had begun to force several weeks before we visited him, and at 

 the time had grapes and peaches nearly half grown. We never ob- 

 served grapes which set finer, at this early season of the year ; 

 the peach trees were also covered with fruit ; so much so that they 

 would need thinning out. The practice of thinning fruit, is too little 

 attended to, by most gardeners ; and trees are often nearly ruined, 

 by the great crops which they are very frequently permitted to bear ; 

 not only in forcing houses, but in the open garden, and with every 

 kind of fruit, should this practice be carried ; we should not then 

 so frequently hear of trees producing fruit only every other year. 

 The vines in the new range are, many of them, raised from cuttings 

 procured from the garden of T. H. Perkins, Esq. at Brookline — 

 among which are some of the kinds, for which his collection is con- 



