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grance, which filled the garden. The heliotrope grows freely in the 

 open ground, and a small plant turned out of a pot into the boi'der, in 

 the spring, will spread over a large spot before the end of the season. 

 It is easily propagated from cuttings. No plant can be more valuable 

 where it is desirable to cut bouquets. 



Mr. Johnson's collection of dahlias is excellent, embracing a great 

 variety, and among them many of the finest new ones of this year, 

 such as Widnall's Juliet, Dodds's Mary, Brown's Star, Widuall's Ex- 

 empler and Enterprise, Zarah, Peerless White, &.c. They were plant- 

 ed against the trellis we have before mentioned and the south fence, ex- 

 cepting a few of the newest ones, which were planted in the flower 

 border. They have all flowered finely, and were, at this time, covered 

 with buds and blossoms. 



The grapery we have mentioned, which is about forty feet long and 

 ten wide, was planted with vines in the spring of 1835; the plants were 

 then only one year old, and had been grown in pots; they were turned 

 into the border in May, and by the end of the season had reached the 

 top of the house, and had made strong wood, which ripened well. 

 Last year the vines were duly pruned, and some of them produced a 

 few clusters of grapes. The present season the crop is very abundant — 

 almost too much so — but the grapes are coloring well, the clusters of 

 fine size, (some weighing two pounds,) and the wood, which is very 

 strong and vigorous, is ripening finely. Considering that the vines have 

 been under the immediate management of Mr. Johnson, whose time is 

 divided between his business and his garden, and who has had little or 

 no experience in their cultivation, we may safely say that they equal in 

 appearance the crops in the graperies and green-houses of the first gen- 

 tlemen and amateurs in the immediate vicinity of Boston, where, too, 

 the vines have had the care of experienced and professional gardeners. 

 The vines were entirely free from insects and mildew, and had that 

 healthy appearance, the true indication of judicious treatment. How 

 easily might every gentleman, who has the means to erect a small gra- 

 pery, supply his table with this delicious fruit, by a very small amount of 

 his own personal care and labor! and how pleasant would be the time 

 employed! It is useless to attempt to raise foreign grapes in the open 

 air in the climate of New England; and if fine fruit is desired, it can 

 be produced only in a house covered with glass. Mr. Johnson's grapery 

 has no flue, but it is his intention to have one built the present winter, 

 so as to have the grapes ripe in August hereafter. 



The fruit garden was well filled with an excellent collection of the 

 finest pears, plums, &c., and several varieties of the former were pro- 

 ducing fruit, on small trees; we noticed the Colmar, Marie Louise, Na- 

 poleon, Buffum, and Bartlett, with handsome specimens; the trees were 

 from Mr. Manning, of Salem, whose valuable collection we have else- 

 where spoken of in this Magazine. In the vegetable de])artment every 

 thing denoted good management, and among the products we observed 

 a fine bed of carrots, which Mr. Johnson was raising for his cattle. 

 Several old apple trees, which were part of an orchard when he pur- 

 chased the place, and which then produced scarcely any fruit, he has so 

 renovated that they were now almost breaking down with their load of 

 fruit. Such management is deserving of the highest commendation. It 

 is lamentable to see the neglect into which many orchards have been 

 suffered to run, from the depredations of insects and other causes, when 

 a little labor, annually, would have kept the trees in a healthy and 

 fruitful condition. The time will come, sooner or later, when the scar- 

 city of this excellent fruit will open the eyes of our farmers to the sub- 

 ject, and the planting and management of orchards will be one of his 

 most important duties. 



Garden of H. A. Breed, Esq., Elm Street. — Mr, Breed was the first 



