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our climate, the beauty of the garden may be enhanced in a two- 

 fold degree to what it is at present; in particular, hardy herba- 

 ceous plants are much neglected, and it would give us great 

 pleasure to see them enriching the borders and parterres of gar- 

 d-ens, now barren of beautiful flowers, or filled with such as are 

 scarcely worth growing from their inferiority. 



Mv. Buist has now engaged Mr. Scott, late of Knight's Ex- 

 otic Nursery, King's Road, Chelsea, England, to take the charge 

 of his estahlishment. The business concerns of his nursery 

 have become so extensive, that he has, personally, very little time 

 to devote to the propagation and cultivation of plants. Under 

 the skill of Mr. Scott, the rarest and most difficult plants to 

 propagate will be increased to supply all demands. 



Residence of J. B. Smith, Esq. — In our former visit to JMr. 

 Smith's garden, we unfortunately called when he was absent from 

 home, and had not therefore the pleasure of seeing him. We 

 hastily walked through the several houses, intending, if our time 

 allowed, to call again; but we were deprived of this pleasure. 

 A short time after, the whole collection was purchased by Mr. 

 Knevels, of Newburgh, N. Y., a zealous amateur, who now 

 possesses the finest collection in that State. Mr. Smith in- 

 formed us that he sold every plant, expecting to visit France; but 

 from some circumstances his tour was delayed, and subsequently 

 he commenced making up the present collection. How well he 

 has succeeded, and with what assiduity he must have labored, 

 can readily be perceived from a mere glance at the plants. The 

 collection is but very little inferior, in point of rare specimens, 

 to his former one, but the plants are smaller. The camel- 

 lias were then more numerous than now, but they did not embrace 

 any better varieties. We have just noticed some seedlings 

 which were raised by Mr. Smith. Among those which we this 

 lime observed in flower may be noticed conspicua, a very large 

 deep red one; imbricata, a fine specimen, with three or four 

 flowers, each handsomely striped; excelsa is a pretty semi-double 

 white; many of the more common sorts were expanded. Mr. 

 Smith has again commenced the raising of seedlings, and already 

 has some forty or fifty plants of one year's growth, .^'rbutus 

 Andrachne we saw in full bloom; it is a splendid object for the 

 conservatory. Several fine lemon and orange trees fill up part 

 of the green-house; these Mr. Smith purchased at difierent 

 places in the city, which abounds in large specimens. 



In one of the hot-houses, the lai-gest of the two, there are al- 

 ready many fine plants; among others, the Panddnus spiralis, 

 Illicium floridanum, Hibbertirt volubilis, Limonia pentaphylla, 

 Bonapartert juncea, &c.; a few fine amaryllises were just expand- 

 ing; one, A. psittacinahybrida, was extremely magnificent. The 

 smaller stove or hot-house we found crowded with plants. There 



