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a great amount of labor to gather np the information. Hor- 

 ticultural magazines were then unknown here, and he had 

 not the opportunity to copy page after page, without ac- 

 knowledgment, as others have since done, but his work was 

 the result of his own labors, aided by such veteran horticul- 

 turists as the late Hon. John Lowell, R. Manning, S. G. 

 Perkins, Judge Buel, Gen. Dearborn, S. Downer, and others. 



We have perhaps digressed ; but our apology must be our 

 high appreciation of the labors of Mr. Kenrick, whose mod- 

 est, unassuming, and somewhat retired habits, have made 

 him but little known, except through his writings. 



There are some fine specimens of trees and shrubs on Mr. 

 Kenrick's grounds. The Wistaria Consequa/ii stands here 

 without any protection, and never fails of an abundant bloom, 

 and this, too, on the north side of the nursery; thus conclu- 

 sively showing that cold does not injure it, or other trees we 

 shall name. The Osage Orange (Madura aurantiaca) not 

 only stands here in the same locality, but, last year, Mr. 

 Kenrick exhibited some of the fruit produced on his trees. 

 The elevation is probably between 200 and 300 feet above 

 the sea. There is a very large and beautiful specimen of 

 the common weeping ash, (i^raxinus excelsior pendula,) 

 planted fifteen years, and twenty-five feet high, and thirty 

 feet through the branches, reaching to the ground. A re- 

 markable specimen of the Scotch pine or fir, (Pinus sylves- 

 tris,) eight years planted, about twelve feet high and of fine 

 form, proving it to be one of the most ornamental species, 

 and worthy a prominent place in every pleasure ground. A 

 variegated leaved sycamore, twenty-five feet high, very hand- 

 some ; some large copper beeches, and a number of Norway 

 spruces thirty feet high, and planted so as to show their 

 noble character, throwing up their conical heads and clothed 

 with verdure down to the very soil in which they grow ; this 

 tree cannot be too highly praised as an ornamental evergreen, 

 whether planted for the purposes of shade, shelter, or pictur- 

 esque effect. Unless we except some trees at Mr. Cushing's, 

 these are the finest Norway spruces around Boston. 



Many other rare and fine trees we might name, of which 

 single specimens, or more, have been set out, from time to 

 time, around Mr. Kenrick's house, for ornamental effect, and 



