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to give some plans which will aid in disseminating the taste 

 which is now accomplishing so much for Rural Improve- 

 ment. 



Commercial Gardening. 



The demand for trees and plants continues to be nearly 

 equal to the supply, notwithstanding the increased number of 

 nurseries which spring into notice every year. This increase 

 of taste is gratifying to every lover of Rural Improvement, 

 and more particularly as it is not confined to the immediate 

 vicinity of our cities and flourishing towns, but extends to the 

 remotest parts of the country. We have recently had sent to 

 us a catalogue of a nursery in Wisconsin, which contains more 

 than twice as many kinds of fruit as the catalogues of some of 

 the most extensive nurserymen around Boston or New York 

 twenty-five years ago. 



In the vicinity of Boston, the greatest demand has been for 

 pear trees : many new kinds have been added to the various 

 nursery collections, and the proprietors are increasing their 

 stock as rapidly as possible. In Salem, Mr. Manning, as 

 heretofore, has fruited the largest number of varieties of any 

 one establishment in the country : scions of nearly or quite all 

 of them, amounting to three or four hundred kinds, are offered 

 for sale from bearing trees. Messrs. Putnam of the same city 

 have a fine stock of young pear trees, which, in the course of 

 a year or two, will be ready for sale. 



Messrs. Winship and the Kenricks have, as usual, large 

 and good stocks of trees : Messrs. Hovey &■ Co. have added 

 very largely to their stock of all kinds of trees. The number 

 of specimen pear trees planted on the borders of the walks 

 has been increased the past year to a thousand^ more than one 

 hundred kinds of which are now in a fine bearing state. About 

 eighty varieties of cherries, and a great number of plums and ap- 

 ples, also promise a fine crop the coming season. Messrs. Wilder, 

 Walker, and other cultivators, have quite a number of trees 

 ready for sale. 



In Worcester, Lowell, Plymouth, New Bedford, Springfield, 

 Providence, and other large towns and cities, new nurseries 

 have been recently established, and the older ones have greatly 

 increased their stock and facilities, for supplying trees. 



