THE MAGAZINE 



HORTICULTURE. 



MAY, 1837. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIOxNS. 



Art. I. J^otes on some of the JSTurseries and Private Gardens 

 in the neighborhood of JSTciv York and Philadelphia, visited 

 in the early part of the month of March, 1837. By the 

 Conductor. 



Brooklyn, JV^eto York. — In the commencement of this article 

 in our last, we slated that this young city was progressing rapid- 

 ly in horticulture and floriculture, and that it would perhaps, in 

 a few years, excel, in the beauty of its gardens, any in the city 

 of New York, on the other side of the river. It was at this 

 place that M. Parmentier established his celebrated nursery, 

 which, unfortunately for the progress of horticulture in this coun- 

 try, was, a few years since, upon the death of its amiable and 

 gentlemanly proprietor, broken up, and the land purchased by a 

 company of gentlemen, to be converted into building lots. Had 

 he lived, we had anticipated a finer collection of fruit trees than 

 has yet been made in this country. His correspondences with 

 several of his own countrymen in Paris and other parts of 

 France, as well as with all the gardeners of Germany, and, in fact, 

 throughout the continent, enabled him to get in his possession, 

 and at an early period, all the superior fruits. There are a great 

 many trees in the vicinity of Boston which were purchased here 

 after his death, and we have never seen better specimens offered 

 for sale in this country; although they have yet been planted 

 scarcely three years, some of them have already produced a few 

 fruits. 



It is, without doubt, owing to the formation of such a garden 

 here, that such a stimulus has been given to gardening, and so great 

 a taste created for its productions; this taste has continued to 



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