THE MAGAZINE 



OF 



HORTICULTURE, 



MARCH, 1849. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. Notes of a Visit to Several Gardens and Nurseries 

 in Westerti New York. By the Editor. 



{Continued from Vol. XIV, p. 535.) 



Syracuse, September 9th, 1848. — We left Rochester in the 

 evening train of cars, and arrived here about midnight, hav- 

 ing been detained at Auburn upwards of an hour. Since our 

 visit, some improvement has been made in the running time 

 of the cars between the two cities, to the much greater con- 

 venience of the public. 



Residence of Gen. Leavenworth. — Our object in stopping at 

 Syracuse was mainly to call on our correspondent. Gen. 

 Leavenworth, to whose articles on the Swan's Orange pear 

 and some other fruits, we, in common with our readers, are so 

 much indebted. As President of the Onondaga County Horti- 

 cultural Society, he has been one of the most active and en- 

 ergetic friends of horticultural improvement in western 

 New York. He has not only one of the finest residences in 

 the city, but he has an extensive plantation in the environs, 

 where he has introduced all the choicest varieties of fruits. 

 This we unfortunately did not have time to visit, but his city 

 garden convinced us that, had we been able to have delayed 

 our tour, we should have been amply compensated in the 

 neatness, good order, and extent of the grounds. 



Gen. Leavenworth's city residence is of limited extent, 

 probably little upwards of an acre, and, but a few years since, 

 was considered so rough and woody a place as to be scarcely 



VOL. XV. — NO. III. 13 



