THE MAGAZINE 



HORTICULTURE. 



JUNE, 1837. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. JVotes on some of the JYurseries and Private Gardens 

 in the neighborhood of JVeiv York and Philadelphia, visited 

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

 Conductor. 



Philadelphia. — Since our remarks upon the gardens of this 

 city, (vol. I. p. 161,) there has been a steady and gradual in- 

 crease of a floricultural taste among the inhabitants. We then 

 alluded to some of the causes which have tended to create a 

 greater love for gardening in this city than in either New York or 

 Boston, and which have placed it, in the scale of floriculture, 

 the first in the country. The Pennsylvania Horticultural 

 Society continues in its heretofore spirited state, and has just 

 published its list of premiums, to be awarded for various flowers 

 and fruits the approaching autumn. It has, by its annual exhi- 

 bitions, tended greatly to difiuse a taste for horticulture, and the 

 result has been the establishment of several private and some 

 commercial gardens since our visit to this city. The principal 

 one of the former is that of N. Biddle, Esq., situated on the 

 Delaware, a few miles above Philadelphia. It is very extensive, 

 and includes all the various gardening structures, such as 

 graperies, peacheries. 



The fine country residence of H. Pratt, Esq., for a long time 

 the principal show garden of this city, and almost as well known 

 as the celebrated Fairmount Water-works, near which it is situ- 

 ated, our readers are already aware, has passed out of the 

 hands of its former proprietor, having been purchased, in the 

 mania for speculation which has pervaded the country, for build- 

 ing lots, and is soon to share the same fate of many similar places 



VOL. III. NO. VI. 26 



