6 J^otices on the State and Progress 



name Mr. Lowell and Gen. Dearborn, Mr. Manning, Mr. Ken- 

 rick and Mr. Downer; gentlemen, who, by their correspondence 

 with the horticultural societies of Europe — with Mr. Knight, 

 Professor Van Mons, of Belgium, and other distinguished for- 

 eign culturists, have contributed more than any others in import- 

 ing and disseminating here the superior varieties of fruit lately 

 originated in England and on the continent. The nursery estab- 

 lishments of Messrs. Kenrick and Winship are magazines of all 

 the most useful products of gardening, and the wealthy amateurs 

 of the vicinity of Boston, Mr. Gushing, Col. Perkins, Mr. 

 Wilder, and many others already noticed in this Magazine, whose 

 collections are rich both in hardy plants and tender exotics, im- 

 port every beautiful or new plant, however expensive or difficult 

 of transportation. The various recent methods of heating green- 

 houses by hot water were first extensively introduced here; and 

 some of the conservatories, tastily designed, with floors paved 

 with marble, concealed pipes of hot water warming their atmos- 

 pheres, and improved modes of ventilation, are almost perfect 

 models for such garden structures. The Massachusetts Horti- 

 cultural Society is perhaps the most spirited in the Union, and 

 the establishment of a Horticultural Magazine here, the first of 

 the kind among us, has had no small effect in creating a taste for 

 rural pursuits, and increasing the knowledge of new plants and 

 improved modes of culture in the neighboring states. 



In Salem we have understood there is quite a taste springing 

 up for the pursuit of horticulture. There is a society existing 

 here for the encouragement of Natural History in its various 

 branches, and horticulture and botany have received a powerful 

 impulse by the efforts of the members, embracing among their 

 number gentlemen of wealth and knowledge, who have leisure 

 time to devote to gardening. The pomological garden of Mr. 

 Manning here contains the largest number of fine fruits, particu- 

 larly pears, to be found in the Union. His correspondence with 

 Dr. Van Mons and Mr. Thompson of the London Horticultu- 

 ral Society's garden, has enabled him to procure every variety 

 desirable. Excellent collections of plants are already to be 

 found in several gardens; and others are being made, which will 

 ere long place this newly formed city — in the scale of horticul 

 ture — second only to the larger and more populous ones which 

 we have already named. 



Of the horticukure of the stales south of the Potomac, ex- 

 cepting Maryland, we can say but little. The iNIaryland Horti- 

 cultural Society, judging from tlie published report of its pro- 

 ceedings, appears to be well supported, and we observe the exhi- 

 bition of many rare plants by the amateurs of the neighborhood 

 of Baltimore. 



At Washington the Golumbian Horticultural Society, which 



