THE MAGAZINE 



OF 



HORTICULTURE. 



APRIL, 1837. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. J\*otes on some of the Jfurseries and Private Gardens 

 in the neighborhood of JS'ew York and Philadelphia^ visited 

 in the early part of the month of March. By the Con- 

 ductor. 



Two years since we made a hasty visit to several gardens in 

 New York and Philadelphia, and our notes, taken at that time, 

 were soon after given to our readers, in a series of articles in our 

 first volume. We had hoped that when we again visited the 

 same places it would have been at a later period in the sea- 

 son, when there v.ould be more to note, and when our remarks 

 would not be confined to in-door cultivation alone. As it is, 

 however, we lay our present hasty sketches before our readers, 

 still hoping that the opportunity will soon occur when we may 

 have the pleasure of describing the richness of the hardy col- 

 lections of the same gardens and nurseries, together with others 

 in their vicinity, which are the subject of our present remarks. 



The progress of gardening, particularly that department gene- 

 rally termed floriculture, has been extremely rapid the past two 

 years; indeed we have been astonished at its increase in New York 

 and Philadelphia. A more general taste appears to pervade these 

 cities than in Boston and its neighborhood. We have before stated, 

 (vol. i, p. 162,) to what, in a great degree, this was owing; and a 

 farther study of the cause of the general prevalence of a taste for 

 flowers in the former cities confirms us in our opinion. We 

 hope, however, that the practice we then alluded to may 

 soon be done away with, and that Boston and its vicinity 

 may yet keep pace with her sister cities in the scale of horticul- 

 ture, as she does in many other sciences. We were exceedingly 



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