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the present spring. Of camellias there is a tolerable collection, 

 although the plants are not large; among others that are new, Mr. 

 Boll pointed out to us imbricata alba and candidissima, both 

 said to be very splendid whites. 



We here saw, for the first time, a great number of plants of 

 the Potentilla fructicosa, with quantities of fruit which had the 

 appearance of strawberries; they are very ornamental, and wor- 

 thy of a place in any collection. The monthly carnation, so 

 called, both here and at every nursery garden we visited, were 

 to be seen in great numbers; they are sold in immense quan- 

 tities to plant out in the summer season. Messrs. Noe & Boll 

 have a very excellent collection of hearts-ease of named sorts; 

 we saw but one or two in bloom, but these were very beautiful. 



Messrs. Noe & Boll have just completed a new house, about 

 one hundred feet in length, with a single stage, for roses, stocks, 

 &.C. It is built w^ithout much regard to finish, but merely as a 

 place of cultivation and propagation. The other houses are 

 three in number, viz. a green-house, geranium house and stove, 

 the latter being quite small. They are all, however, well stocked, 

 and contain a great number of fine plants. In geraniums this 

 collection comes next to Mr. Hogg. 



JVIr. Harrison's Jimateur Garden. — This garden is situated on 

 the eighth avenue, near the North River, and not a great distance 

 from Messrs. Noe & Boll's establishment. The proprietor is 

 well known as the raiser of Harrison's yellow rose, the Ca- 

 mellia japonica var. Harrisoni, and several other handsome vari- 

 eties. Mr. Harrison has only a small green-house, but it is over- 

 crowded with seedling camellias, which have nearly attained a 

 flowering state. We saw three or four new kinds which had 

 opened for the first time, but they did not possess any extraor- 

 dinary beauty. Mr. Harrison informed us, however, that he had 

 had a new white open the past winter, which was quite an addi- 

 tion. It was something in the way of the pompone, but looser 

 in its formation; another year will decide its qualities better. 



Mr. Harrison appears to practise hybridization without any 

 regard to the mixing of two particular sorts to produce an inter- 

 mediate variety; but whenever a flower opens on plants that gen- 

 erally produce seed, the stigmas are impregnated with the pollen 

 of some sort, in order to fertilize them. Seeds are saved from 

 the w^arratah, pompone, rosea, Chandleri, single red, &c.; and 

 Mr. Harrison is unable to say from what two his new white was 

 raised, as he never keeps any record of the male parent. The 

 seedlings are designated by certain marks, to know whether they 

 were from the warratah, pompone, &.C.; but the male parent is 

 not known to any of the varieties. 



Mr. Harrison's white variety has but one fault, and that is its 

 shy blooming; we had remarked this in a plant in our possession, 



