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Optima — deep red, spotted, fine shape. 

 Copew — bright rose, shghtly spotted, large fine flower. 

 Coccinea — light red, faintly spotted, flower small. 

 Ignescens — bright crimson, large and showy. 

 Baltimore, January, 1852. 



Art. VI. Notes on Gardens and Nurseries. 



A RECENT visit to Ncw York gave us an opportmiity to visit 

 some of the nurseries and gardens in that neighborhood, 

 which has not occurred for three or four years. Since then 

 there has been a great increase of nurseries ; and small estab- 

 lishments, containing greenhouses and forcing pits, more 

 especially for the sale of bouquets and plants, have sprung 

 up in great numbers, at the upper part of the city. The 

 older and well known places have, at the same time, con- 

 tinued to enlarge and increase their facilities for business ; 

 and the rapid increase of population, as well as the spread of 

 a taste for trees, plants and shrubs, have caused such an ac- 

 tive demand as to give all a reasonable share of trade. 



Nui'sery of G. C. Thorhurn, Astoria. — Since our last 

 visit to Astoria, Mr. Thorburn has made many alterations in 

 the old range of greenhouses, and erected two new ones. 

 One of them is a rose house, about seventy-five feet long and 

 eighteen wide. It is span-roofed and arranged with a broad 

 shelf on each side for plants, and a pit in the centre for roses. 

 In this pit were some remarkably fine specimens of that fine 

 old rose, Lamarque ; also, of Solfitaire, Souvenir de la Mal- 

 maison, &c. They were just now breaking after having 

 been headed in ; but up to January, they continued to give 

 quantities of the most splendid flowers. The pelargoniums 

 were in fine order and occupied one of the shelves ; among 

 the newer ones we noticed Crusader, Rolla, Rebecca, Brilliant, 

 Fouquet's Magnificent, Flamingo, Aspasia, Topping's Ele- 

 gans, Field Marshal, (fcc. Some of these are remarkably 

 fine, particularly Aspasia, Crusader and Topping's Elegans. 



