360 Notes on Gaj-dens and Nurseries. 



some structure, in excellent keeping, with a Gothic cottage or 

 villa, but not harmonizing with the Grecian or Italian style. 

 It is one hundred feet long, and divided into three compart- 

 ments, the centre, twenty feet wide, being the greenhouse, 

 and the two wings, forty feet each, the graperies. The green- 

 house is built with a projecting gable, and opens to the main 

 walk leading to the house. 



The graperies are in fine condition ; the house was not 

 completed till late in the summer of 1847, and the vines were 

 not planted till the fifth of July, being then only one year 

 old in pots, supplied by Messrs. Hovey & Co. ; but they now 

 have new canes reaching to the top of the house, and some 

 of them have five or six large and splendid bunches of 

 grapes upon each vine. This shows how soon a properly 

 managed grapery can be made to produce fruit. Under the 

 management of Mr. Burns, we have no doubt, each vine 

 will produce ten pounds of grapes, next year, without any 

 injury to their future health. The border was trenched three 

 feet deep, and is about twenty-four feet wide, made with loam 

 and rotten dung, with fifty bushels of ground bones. The vines 

 are in the most vigorous condition, with shoots an inch in 

 diameter. The whole arrangements of the house are so well 

 carried out, that we shall endeavor to give a plan in a future 

 number. The boiler is one of Mr. Whitely's manufacture, 

 and heats the house in the most thorough manner. 



The open garden was radiant with a profusion of brilliant 

 verbenas, petunias, featherfew, 10-week stocks, heliotropes, 

 &c. The stocks were exceedingly showy, particularly some 

 white ones, and the petunias remarkably fine. These lined 

 one side of a long walk, the other, forming the orchard, lawn, 

 &c. Not a weed was to be seen, and the whole indicated the 

 attention and care of Mr. Burns, the gardener. 



Residence of Dr. Mathers, Nonantwn Street. — Mr. Need- 

 ham, who is well known as one of our best grape cultivators, 

 has some capital vines under his care at this garden. A 

 small house, erected last year, for early grapes, and forced 

 tolerably early, was now bearing an immense crop of fruit. 

 To show to what extent the fruit-bearing powers of a vine 

 may be taxed, we will merely state, that the vines were 

 raised from eyes a year ago in March, and were set out in 



