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ogist in the United States, and it is doubtful whether there were many, in 

 any country, Avho were his equals, in that very interesting and important 

 branch of Horticulture. Mr. Manning commenced a work on Fruits, and 

 published several numbers, with colored engravings ; but, unfortunately, 

 died before its completion, as much regretted, as he had been esteemed and 

 respected throughout his industrious, useful and exemplary hfe. 



Messrs. Hoveys' Nursery, in Cambridge, occupies thirtysix acres, and 

 they state, that it contains six hundred varieties of Pears, two hundred of 

 Apples, one hundred of Cherries, one hundred of Plums, seventy five of 

 Peaches, fifty of Grapes, ten of Apricots, ten of Nectarines, three of 

 Quinces, fifty of Gooseberries, twelve of Currants, ten of Raspberries, 

 eight of Strawberries, and one hundred kinds of Forest and Ornamental 

 Trees. Among them are seventy Pears, one hundred and twentyfive 

 Apples, forty Cherries, ten Grapes, sixty Peaches, fifty Plums, three Nec- 

 tarines, three Raspberries, two Gooseberries and eight Strawberries, which 

 are Native productions — half of which, at least, are of the first quality. 

 They have five glazed houses, which contain two thousand five hundred 

 plants for sale, and as many more, exclusive of Trees and Shrubs, in the 

 open ground. Mr. C. M. Hovey is extensively and favorably known, not 

 only by the prominent position he has attained as the cultivator of a nursery, 

 but as the proprietor and editor of " The Magazine of Horticulture," and 

 the author of a Avork on " The Fruit Trees of America," illustrated with 

 beautifully executed colored engravings, of the most precious varieties of 

 exotic and native fruits. Having visited many of the most celebrated gar- 

 dens in England, France and this country, he has been enabled to qualify 

 himself for the discharge of his various duties, in such an adequate manner 

 as to obtain the confidence, and merit the plaudits, of his fellow-citizens. 



Colonel Wilder, the late President of the Society, has within a few years 

 commenced a large Nursery in Dorchester. Previously he had confined 

 his horticultural operations to the collection of fruit trees and ornamental 

 plants, merely for the embellishment of his own grounds, and the manage- 

 ment of a conservatory, which Avas exclusively appropriated to the culture 

 of Camellias and some of the other most rare and beautiful Flowers and 

 Grapes. Of the first named elegant genus, he has nearly three thousand 

 plants, including upwards of three hundred varieties, many of which, and 

 of a superior kind, he has raised from the seed, and for two of them he 

 received a premium from the Society, as they were considered equal to 

 any of the most celebrated which have been produced in Europe. His 

 collection is the largest and most magnificent in America, and rivals the 

 most celebrated in other nations ; for when the Abbe Berlese published his 

 *' Monography of the Genus Camellia, "=^ about thirteen years since, he 

 states, that he had " devoted twenty years to the special culture of the 



* It was trauslaled by H. A. S. Dearborn, and published bv Joseph Breck, in 1S38. 



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