THE MAGAZINE 



OF 



HORTICULTURE. 



NOVEMBER, 1852. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. So7ne of the Rarer Plants of Vcr^nont. By R. 



The substance of the following article I was kindly- 

 permitted to use by the Rev. A. H, Clapp and Charles C. 

 Frost, Esq., of Brattleboro', who, in the latter part of the 

 month of July last, made an excursion to a remarkable botan- 

 ical region, in the neighborhood of Willoughby Lake, in 

 quest of plants and other objects of interest. Deeming such 

 information congenial to the spirit of your Magazine, I have 

 placed it at your disposal, as subserving the cause of Botany 

 and Floriculture. 



Have you ever heard of Willoughby Lake ? If my reader 

 says no, let me inform him that said Willoughby Lake is in 

 the small township of Westmore, Vermont, twenty-one miles 

 north of St. Johnsbury. St. Johnsbury is easily accessible 

 from any quarter, but loe were borne first along the Vermont 

 Valley Railroad, on the banks of the Connecticut, catching 

 glimpses through the opening hills, on either hand, of such 

 delightful hits of landscape as Fisher, or Brown, or Cole 

 would have loved to paint. An hour, — and we were at Bel- 

 lows' Falls, where, by delay of the Boston train, we indulged 

 in admiration of the scenery adjacent, and of other noticeable 

 subjects, until, admonished by the shrilly whistle of the time 

 of departure, we embarked on the Sullivan train, and off 

 again through a succession of other delightful scenery, looking 

 now down on quiet farms ornamented with the graceful Elm 



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