380 CuUs al Gardens and JWirseries. 



as regards its keeping, will compare with most others in general, but 

 by no means with that of Mr. Johnson. 



J\I)\ Houghtoji's garden. — This garden is situated at a considerable 

 distance from Mr. Johnson's and Mr. Breed's, being at the north part of 

 the village, a part known as Wood End. The garden contains, we 

 should think, nearly two acres, which is well situated, and falls with a 

 gentle slope, sufficient to carry off all superfluous moisture, and at the 

 same tiitie not so as to wash away the soil in heavy rains. It contains a 

 small grapery and green-house, and a pit for propagating plants. 



Mr. Houghton is an amateur and a great lover of plants, and has 

 been at much expense to procure fine flowers. Having but little time 

 at his commnnd, his business occupying nearly his whole attention, he 

 has accomplished a great deal in the gardening way; his whole garden, 

 graperies and all, is managed by his own hand, and in an excellent 

 manner. We found a tolerable crop of grapes in the green-house, 

 about ripe, and a very good crop in the grapery just beginning to color; 

 the vines were planted at the same time as Mr. Johnson's, in the spring 

 of 1835, and have made a vigorous growth. They were turned out of 

 pots, which is altogether the best system of raising vines for graperies 

 or forcing-houses. On a back trellis the peach trees were trained excel- 

 lently, and the wood laid in with the precision of an old practitioner; 

 we also noticed some fruit upon them, although the trees are yet young. 

 In the pit were numerous geraniums, and other cuttings of many differ- 

 ent species of green-house plants, striking root. This pit is built with 

 a double roof, the back and half of the front of which is blank, the re- 

 mainder glass ; under the blank part is a potting bench, built so as to con- 

 tain the different soils, manures, 8cc. beneath. A pit is built with boards, 

 underneath the lights, about two and a half feet from the ground; be- 

 neath horse dung is applied, which gives a fine heat to the soil or sand 

 in which the pots of cuttings are plunged. It appears to be somewhat 

 on the plan of our pit for growing cucumbers, described and figured in 

 our vol. I, p. 403: by means of a door the dung can be introduced at 

 any time, and the temperature of the soil kept at any required point. 

 For a cheap propagating place it answers a very good purpose. 



In the garden the finest plants which we noticed were a large speci- 

 men of Peebnia Moiitan joapaveracea, and two smaller ones of p. 

 Banksife; the former flowered magnificently the past spring. All these 

 stand out without any protection. The dahlias were flowering finely, 

 as indeed thej^ have almost every where this season; rain, however, is 

 much needed here : the kinds were principally the more common ones. 

 Mr. Houghton is a great grower of gooseberries, and has produced 

 some fine ones; but we saw that his plants, in common with all others, 

 had suffered greatly by the caterpillar, some of the bushes having been 

 completely stripped of their leaves. Mr. Houghton has raised some 

 most excellent specimens of this fruit. 



The Garden of Mr. Andrews Breed is situated near Mr. Johnson's, 

 and has been principally laid out this year. We had not time to call 

 on Mr. Breed, but, in passing the garden, we noticed that it possessed 

 some natural beauties, among others a small stream of water running 

 through the highest part of it, sufficiently so to supply a small fountain 

 in the lower part, if Mr. Breed should conclude to erect one. The 

 garden is very pleasantly located, and what has been done is in good 

 taste. Another 3^earwe hope to have the pleasure of calling on him. 



