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gardener, thoroughly understands his profession, and every- 

 thing under his charge was in the most vigorous condition. 

 When the whole range is completed- and filled with plants, 

 we have no doubt it will equal, if it does not surpass, any sim- 

 ilar collection in New York. 



Nursery Grounds of Mr. T. Dunlap, Harlem. — The 

 great object of Mr. Dunlap is to produce an immense quantity 

 of cut flowers, suitable for bouquets, &c., the central situa- 

 tion of his store in Broadway giving him the opportunity to 

 build up a large business in this department of gardening. 

 Consequently we found that several new ranges of houses 

 have been erected during the last four or five years. We 

 think we counted nine houses, all span-roofed but one, about 

 seventy-feet long each, and preparations were now making to 

 put up another. They are appropriated to the various classes 

 of plants ; one a camellia house, two for miscellaneous plants, 

 one propagating house, and the others for roses, which is, 

 after all, the flower. 



Tlje houses are all sunk in the ground, which is a dry bot- 

 tom, about three feet, so as to bring the front plate abo^it even 

 or slightly higher than the ground level. They are arranged 

 internally with a shelf about three feet wide on each side, 

 and except the rose houses, with a double stage in the centre. 

 The rose houses have beds on the centre, in which the roses 

 are planted, and more thrifty and beautiful specimens we 

 never saw. Some of the Lamarques and Solfitaires were 

 nearly the size of a stout tree at the base, and with shoots 

 trained up to the rafters which had just been headed in. 

 These roses flower abundantly up to the first of January, 

 when they are pruned, and in the course of two months again 

 begin to display their flowers. This is the true way of cul- 

 tivating the rose when a fine quantity of flowers are wanted, 

 as under pot cultivation, the strong growers, particularly La- 

 marque, Solfitaire and Chromatella, do not repay the room 

 they occupy. 



The camellia house contained a fine stock of plants in the 

 most healthy and vigorous condition. We here saw in 

 bloom for the first time Mr. Dunlap's white seedling, called 



