30 Calls at Gardens and J^urseries. 



and at a season, too, when our climate denies us any thing in the shape 

 of vegetation. We would encourage a taste for green-house plants, 

 but at the same time we would not lessen the desire of possessing hardy 

 trees and shrubs. 



But to return to our subject: in the green-house we ■noticed a few 

 remaining flowers of the yellow Indian chrysanthemum. This is set 

 down in a paper in the Tra7isaclions of the London Horticultural So- 

 ciety as not worth cultivating. We have given it up ourselves — still we 

 cannot say it does not possess much beauty; but the late period of its 

 flowering will prevent it from being generally grown. The principal 

 plants were tender herbaceous ones, intermixed with stocks and a few 

 annuals, as the Jfalope trifida var. grandiflora, JMkUa. moschata, &.C., 

 which were in flower. The mode of heating is not very good; and, 

 were the plants very valuable, some danger might be apprehended of 

 injuring them. A common cylinder stove is placed in a frame of brick- 

 work, open on the front, the smoke passing off through a flue at the 

 back ; the heat supplied is very unsteady, sometimes hot and again 

 cooler. As we have just stated, Mr. Lee must have a well-constructed 

 house, heated with hot water pipes, and a good collection of plants to 

 stock it. Many fine species and varieties for ornamenting the grounds 

 in the summer season may be brought forward here, and such half har- 

 dy shrubs as some of the rhododendrons, azaleas, &c., with protection, 

 would display their flowers placed in clumps upon the lawn in the 

 months of May and June. 



At Mr. Wiider^s, Hawthorn Grove, the new stove, mentioned in our 

 late visit to this place, is now about completed. A new mode of apply- 

 ing bottom heat, described in another page, has been put in operation 

 for the pit. In the green-house several camellias are in full bloom, 

 and some varieties that have never flowered here will be expanded soon. 

 Some of the fine amaryllises are beginning to throw up their flower 

 spikes. 



J. D. W. Williams, Esq., Roxbury, is about erecting a fine range of 

 houses. When completed we hope to have the pleasure of giving our 

 readers some account of it. He is a gentleman of ample means, and, 

 we doubt not, will spare no pains to make it one of the handsomest in 

 the vicinity. 



A Span-roofed Green-house has been added to the garden of Mr.Leathe, 

 Cambridgeport, the first of the kind, we think, in the vicinity of Bos- 

 ton. It has a light and airy appearance, and for some purposes prom- 

 ises advantages over the common ones. It is upwards of thirty feet 

 long. 



Mount Washington House, South Boston. — This large, commodious, 

 and elegantly furnished house, already known to the public as one of 

 the best conducted in Boston, has annexed to it a fine garden, both for 

 the recreation of the boarders, and for the purpose of supplying the ta- 

 bles with all the luxuries the garden affords. A fine range of forcing- 

 houses has just been completed. The whole is under the management 

 of Mr. McCullough, who, we have no doubt, will be able to furnish 

 every thing the proprietors of the place can desire. 



In Boston, Mr. Winchester has had a fine-green-house erected in his 

 garden in Franklin Street. We have not seen it, but understand it is a 

 very beautiful and well proportioned structure. 



Brooklyn, Neiv York, Residence of Perry, Esq., Henry Street. 



At a recent hasty visit to this city we were much gratified with the 

 improvements in" matters of taste connected with horticulture which 

 came under our notice here. Indeed, in the erection of handsome 

 structures for the growth of plants, the inhabitants are quite in advance 

 of any thing in a similar way on the opposite side of the river — New 



