410 N'otes on Gardens and Nurseries. 



Can any thing be more beautiful than this species ; it is 

 nearly or quite hardy, only requiring to be loosened from the 

 trellis and laid upon the ground, where it keeps without the 

 least injury. This and the Wistaria Consequana should be 

 planted in every garden, and we hope to see them both as 

 common as the lilac. 



The stock of maples, ashes, elms, sycamores, &c., is large, 

 the trees thrifty and well grown. A great quantity of young 

 stocks of fruit trees were planted the past spring, and were 

 now, some of them, being budded. Arbor vitses, white pines, 

 and hemlocks, in good quantity, especially of the former, and 

 the collection of various ornamental shrubs excellent. 



The grounds were in the very best order, and it was a 

 gratification to see such neatness and cleanliness in every 

 part. A nursery should no more be overgrown with weeds 

 than a gentleman's flower garden. 



Garden of O. Johnson^ Esq., L'j/7i?i, Aiigiist^th. — We could 

 scarcely believe, until we had referred to our Magazine, that 

 a period of six years had elapsed since our last visit to Mr. 

 Johnson's garden. The trees had now grown to a good size, 

 and the hedge, which had then just been planted, now pre- 

 sented a formidable barrier between what were at that time 

 termed the old garden and the new, yet it did not seem that 

 six years had slipped away. 



Mr. Johnson is as devoted to the pursuits of horticulture as 

 in years past. The same neatness, order, and good keeping 

 of the grounds were every where apparent, and it was a 

 source of great gratification to find it not only kept up to the 

 "economxic point," according to the late Mr. Loudon's stand- 

 ard, but something beyond it. Not a weed was to be seen in 

 any part. 



Mr. Johnson's espalier trees are models for imitation, and 

 their management reflects much credit upon his skill. A 

 Duchesse d'Angouleme was covered with superb fruit, even 

 in this scarce season ; but it is somewhat remarkable, that 

 while some cultivators complain of the Duchesse as a shy 

 bearer, and wanting in flavor, it never has failed to pro- 

 duce a fine crop, here, of delicious fruit. The standard, as 

 well as pyramidal, pear trees, were bearing a much larger 

 quantity of fruit than those in the immediate vicinity of 



