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The conservatory contained some very large and hand- 

 some camellias, acacias, &c. Two plants, of historical as 

 well as floral interest, were fine orange trees, formerly be- 

 longing to Robert Morris, and of such size that one of them 

 has yielded more than livo hundred fine fruit in one year ; — 

 they were yet in excellent health, and well-shaped trees. 

 The citron has fruited with Mr. Manice, and one specimen 

 weighed 31b. 1 J oz. Psidium Cattleyd/mwi, a very fine speci- 

 men, nearly ten feet high ; a nice plant of that most desirable 

 and elegant plant Cestrum aurantiacum, whose rich apricot 

 colored blossoms, profusely covering the branches in dense 

 spikes, is one of the finest acquisitions to the greenhouse, 

 blooming in October and November, when there is so little in 

 flower. On the shelves the much talked about, much abused, 

 and rather too much praised. Plumbago Larpent« was in 

 flower; the color of its blossoms renders it ornamental, but it 

 has rather a shabby habit which detracts from its beauty. 

 Mandevillea suaveolens, that beautiful climber, too little 

 known and too seldom seen, had reached the top of the 

 house, and hung its festoons of white, fragrant, bell-shaped 

 flowers in such profusion as to perfume the air with their 

 odor. All the climbing plants are growing in the border. 



Continuing our walk about the grounds, we entered the 

 flower garden, which is laid out in beds, bordered with 

 box ; the dahlias were about all that remained in bloom at 

 this late season, save here and there a stray rose ; and we con- 

 tinued on to the lawn, where we found much of interest in 

 the various specimens of trees and shrubs. Bignonia grandi- 

 flora, trained to a pole, and kept cut in, is a most ornamental 

 object; here it stands uninjured, but in the latitude of Bos- 

 ton it may be had in equal beauty ; the only labor required 

 is to loosen the branches from the pole and lay them on the 

 ground, where they can be protected with a few leaves. Sal- 

 isbur/a adiantifolia, the Ginkgo tree, ten feet, fine; several 

 large and superb trees of the Norway spruce ; Weeping 

 ash, fifteen feet ; Aralia spinosa is an ornamental object, 

 standing singly on the lawn ; J.^bies Smith^a?^a, Cedrus De- 

 oddra, Cedar of Lebanon, Pinus excelsa, and others, were 

 planted out, but were yet small, except the Pinus, which 

 was four feet high ; two large and fine chestnut trees, (one of 



