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Calls at Gardens and JWirseries. 



An immense number of Mr. Strong's are valued from £1 to 

 £S. The following, raised by other growers, are offered for 

 sale at the annexed prices: — 



Queen Adelaide (Groom's) £10 

 Queen (Rutley's) ... 10 



Thalia 10 



Louis XVI (Brown's) . . 8 



Louis XVI (Austin's) . . £5 



Lord Collin;fwood ... 5 



Ponipe Funebre .... 5 



Rose Lac, true, .... 5 



The collection of about 260 roots, one of each, as priced in 

 the published list, amounts to upwards of £300, (about $1300.) 

 A tolerable sum to gratify the tulip fancy — not, however, by 

 any means, out of the power of many gentlemen to purchase. 

 There is not, in the whole catalogue of florist's flowers, one 

 which makes such an all-surpassing display as the tulip. We 

 hope some of our liberal patrons of gardening will avail them- 

 selves of so fine an opportunity to purchase: so rare a chance 

 will not probably occur for a long time. 



Art. V. Calls at Gardens and Nurseries. 



Lynn. — We have recently made a visit to this village, which contains 

 many very pretty gardens. Perhaps, for the number of its inhabitants, 

 few villages, situated at the same distance from the metropolis, can 

 claim the same amount of taste, which appears to be very generally 

 ditfused among all classes of citizens. The plain cottage and the ele- 

 gant mansion are alike ornamented with parterres of flowers, and to 

 each are appended, in many instances, a small garden containing some 

 good fruits, and a supply of all the most valuable vegetables. The 

 taste for flowers, we are happy to learn, has been encouraged by some 

 of the more wealthy inhabitants, who have not only set good examples, 

 but have, with great and praiseworthy liberality, distributed the more 

 beautiful productions of Flora to those, who, though not by any means 

 unable to purchase them, have, as in too many instances throughout 

 the country, shrunk from possessing such, under an erroneous and 

 prevalent idea that it is a las'ish expense, without any adequate return — 

 forijetting that the pleasure, derived from the pursuit of floriculture, as 

 a part of gardening, is of the most noble and innocent nature, and to fos- 

 ter and encourage which, wealth cannot be more generously employed. 



The late, and, as yet, depressed state of aflfairs in this country, has 

 been severely felt by the citizens of this village. Altogether a manu- 

 facturing population, the general prostration of business throughout 

 the country has diminished the resources of the inhabitants in a great 

 degree : their means have therefore been suddenly cut off, and less at- 

 tention to gardening has been given, the past season, than usual; while 

 on the other hand, if the loss of business had not been experienced, 

 the advancement would have been very great, and would have placed 

 this village high in the scale of horticulture. But we look to a resusci- 

 tation of commercial afftiirs, and with it a more zealous endeavor to 

 ornament our gai'dens and pleasure grounds, to make additions to the 



