THE MAGAZINE 



OF 



HORTICULTURE- 



AUGUST, 1849. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. Some Remarks on the more general Cultivation of 

 Indigenous Trees, Shrubs, and Herbaceous Plants : with a 

 Notice of the Vaccinium Vitis-Idce^a, growing in Roxbury. 

 By Gen. H. A. S. Dearborn. 



Dear Sir, — In the last number of your magazine is an in- 

 teresting account of a botanical exploration in the County of 

 Essex, by John Lewis Russell, Esq., one of the most eminent 

 and meritorious botanists of New England, which I have read 

 with great pleasure, and ardently hope that more attention 

 will be soon given, by our proprietors of nurseries, to the cul- 

 ture of indigenous trees, shrubs, and herbaceous flowering 

 plants, for there are many which, while they are highly ap- 

 preciated in Europe, cannot be found in the nurseries, or the 

 ornamental grounds of gentlemen residing in the country, on 

 this continent. The Vaccinium Vitis-Idce^a, (mountain cran- 

 berry,) which has been found in Danvers, and, hitherto, in no 

 other part of this State, as alleged by Mr. Emerson, in his 

 invaluable ^^ Report on the Woody Plants of Massachusetts^'^ 

 has been discovered in this town. Last summer, while lay- 

 ing out the avenues and paths in Forest Hills Cemetery, a 

 space of ground about thirty feet long and twenty wide,* on 

 the summit of a hill, was found to be covered with that beau- 

 tiful plant ; and this spring, the whole area was whitened by 

 the delicate blossoms. I had never seen the plant before, al- 

 though I have travelled over a large portion of the New 

 England states. 



* It is on the Ccistern side of Mulberry Avenue, near its junction with Beech cuid 

 Mount Warren Avenues. 



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