122 JSTotes on JSTurseries and Private Gardens, 



happy to perceive the great prevalence of a real love of flowers, 

 which exhibits itself in the cultivation of plants, in parlors, in New 

 York and Philadelphia; pots of flowering plants, and of many 

 fine kinds, make their appearance in the windows of the houses 

 much more frequently than in Boston. 



In New York many new floricultural establishments have lately 

 sprung up, and the number of gentlemen's country residences, 

 with green-houses, &c. attached, have increased very rapidly 

 within the past two years. In Brooklyn, the number of beautiful 

 gardens is, we venture to say, greater in proportion to the popu- 

 lation than in any city in the Union; we were surprised to find 

 so many elegant places where, a short time since, scarcely more 

 than one existed. A few years will find this young city surpassing 

 even its great prototype on the opposite side of the river. 



We commence our remarks with the New York gardens, and 

 give them without any reference to the time of our visits. We 

 intended them, at first, merely for our calls at gardens and nur- 

 series, but, upon an after thought, we concluded to make them a 

 separate paper. They are, however, written in the same manner 

 as our " calls," from brief notes, taken upon the spot, and after- 

 wards filled up at leisure. 



JSTursery of Mr. Thomas Hogg, on the Bloomingdale Road. 

 — Mr. Hogg is celebrated for his fine collection of geraniums, 

 which probably surpasses, in the number of new and rare varie- 

 ties, any other in the country; the plants are exceedingly well 

 grown, and were, when we saw them, covered with fiower buds. 

 They are grown in a house by themselves, as we are convinced 

 they always should be, and are not drawn up, but have that dwarf- 

 ish and robust habit which is said to distinguish the collections 

 of the English cultivators of this tribe. The taste for geraniums in 

 New York is rapidly extending, and it is only from the great de- 

 mand for the new and I'are sorts, which are eagerly sought after, 

 that Mr. Hogg is enabled to import plants which cost a great 

 sum of money, and the importation of which is attended with 

 less success than almost any other tribe. We hope to see the 

 same taste for the new and elegant varieties of geraniums, which 

 are yearly raised in England, prevalent in the vicinity of Boston. 

 Certainly but few families of plants can boast of equal splendor 

 of colors and delicacy of pencilling which is to be found in the 

 more superb varieties. We found at this early season but a few 

 sorts in bloom; among those, however, which had expanded, 

 we noticed the following: Amelia, Atlas, Virginius, rose spotted, 

 Celestia, Adelina;, Boll's General Washington, Lord Denman, 

 Bouganvilleidmmi, purpurea caerulea, Clarissimum, Duchess of 

 Clarence, Seneca, Exquisite, clouded, Erranium, Lord Brough- 

 ham, Dennis's Queen, Anne Maria, Weltjie's Sydney, Admiral 

 Napier, Sesostris, Tigrinum, Congestum, &c. Of these, which 



