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Allston street, and purchased of him by the writer 

 about fifty years since for the sura of thirty dollars. 

 This Camellia was burnt down nearly to its root, but 

 like the fabled goddess springing from the fire, it after- 

 wards sprouted up into growth again. It then went to 

 Mr. Jonathan French, of Koxbury, and thence to Wil- 

 liam E. Baker, Ridge Hill Farm, Wellesley, where it is 

 now in a green old age. The adjacent grounds were 

 filled up and the garden enlarged by the city, with the 

 provision that they are never to be built on. In 1859 

 they became our Public Garden, and in 1860 this was 

 remodelled by laying it out and planting it on a definite 

 and proper plan. This garden embraces about twenty- 

 four acres of land, containing a choice collection of 

 ornamental trees, shrubs, and plants; and in the sum- 

 mer season, with its ninety thousand bedded plants, is an 

 object of splendor and interest, being the most delight- 

 ful resort for thousands of citizens and strangers, and 

 especially for children, who in pleasant weather are drawn 

 in their carriages or stroll through its walks. From its 

 inception the Garden, with its statues, fountains and 

 floral attractions, has been every year more highly ap- 

 preciated, and we trust it will soon attain to that 

 perfection which a Boston garden should exhibit. The 

 number of trees in this garden is 1500, and the whole 

 number of trees under city care is 23,000. 



LETTER OF JOHN CADNESS, 



Now LIVING IN FLUSHING, NEW YORK. 



I was engaged by Dr. Boot, of London, through Dr. John Lind- 

 ley, Secretary of the London Horticultural Society's Gardens at 

 Chiswick. I left England in June, 1839, arriving in the United 

 States in August, and took charge of the Boston Public Garden 

 on the 7th of that month, under a three years' engagement. 



