422 Foreign Notices. 



Art. II. Foreign ISolices. 

 TURKEY. 



American Fruits on the Shores of the Bosphorui. — [In the early part of 

 the current volume, (p. 42,) we gave some account of the state of garden- 

 ing on the Bosphorus, and remarked, at the time, that Messrs. Hovey & 

 Co. had sent to our correspondent some of the finest kinds of fruit trees, 

 intended for the sultan's garden. Recently, we have received another letter 

 from our correspondent, and, although not intended for publication, we do 

 not think he will object to the publication of his remarks relative to the receipt 

 of the trees and plants, and the disposition of them after their arrival. — Ed.'\ 



I had the pleasure, some time since, to receive your letter of the 23d of 

 December last, accompanied by tne trees which I had desired you to send 

 me. I am very grateful to you for your polite attention to my request, and 

 it may be a satisfaction to you to learn that the trees all reached me in a 

 very short time, and in a perfect state of preservation. They arrived here 

 just when the best season for planting them had set in. I intended them as 

 a small present for the sultan, from whom, during my long residence here, 

 I have received many acts of kindness ; and, being desirous of seeing once 

 more something to recall to me the green hills of my own native soil, I 

 took the package myself to his palace. His private secretary had kindly 

 sent for the sultan's chief gardener, who is a German of creditable knowl- 

 edge, to take charge of the trees, and they were opened in the yard of the 

 palace. I was delighted to find them so well put up ; they were nearly all 

 budding, and not a twig or root was injured. I assure you, that I was so 

 much pleased with the sight of so many of my country plants, familiar 

 objects of my younger days, that I felt much like committing the folly of 

 kissing their branches, especially those of the hickory, the sugar maple, 

 and the sassafras. They have all been planted in favorite parts of the 

 garden belonging to the palace of the sultan called " Tcherogian," on the 

 European shore of the Bosphorus ; the cranberry around a pond of water, 

 and the fruit-trees where they are protected. His garden is an immense 

 one, and will be in time a noble piece of ground. It costs the sultan a large 

 sum annually. The gardener tells me that the first time the young sultan 

 came into the garden, he sent for and asked him where he had planted the 

 trees from the new world, and made him tell him something about their 

 nature. He was much gratified with the sugar maple. 



As a small return for your kindness, I will send you also some graftings 

 from Turkey, and have already bespoken some pear and apple graftings 

 from Gamash Khaneh, (beyond Trabizoud;) some cherry graftings from 

 Ceressunt, near Trabizoud ; and will try also to get some apple graftings 

 from Angora. These are all famous fruits here, (except the cherries,) and 

 may be of interest to you. The tulip tree, the magnolia, quince, and the 

 beech-tree are here, — the latter wild, and the two former in the sultan's 

 garden. They are, however, rare, (the former,) and yours were not the 

 less prized. Trees and flowers from Florence and Milan cost much less 



