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the flower borders; birt, as our winters are so severe as to destroy the 

 plants, if left standing out, he adopts this mode, and we should think a 

 most safe one, to preserve them. The plants will flower full as well, if 

 not better, for being removed. Numerous layers of carnations he had 

 also in pots, which looked strong and healthv. 



In the forcins grounds Mr. Burns has already put up several hot-beds; 

 in one of these lettuces were just breaking the ground, and another was 

 prepared for cabbages. In a small one-light frame he had thirty or forty 

 pots of cucumbers, which had just been potted; they were planted about 

 the 10th or 12th of January. Mr. Williams is a great amateur in farm- 

 ing, and raises bushels of cucuujiters every season; he intends to have 

 some twenty or thirty frames hilled out with the above plants, in the 

 course of a lew weeks. Mr. Burns is a very industrious gardener; and, 

 although the late open weather has kept his attention directed towards 

 the farming department, the green-house will not suffer in neatness and 

 cleanliness, compared with those under the care of more experienced 

 gardeners. We have no doubt that, when confidence in trade shall be 

 restored, and the effects of the late, and, indeed, yet existing, commer- 

 cial troubles, shall have passed away, that our amateurs will be induced 

 to enrich their collections with all the new plants. There are few in the 

 vicinity of Boston, who are more liberal, or who have more ample 

 means to do so, than Mr. Williams; and we look forward to the time 

 when his collection will be one of the richest and most complete. What 

 is gratifying, in a great degree, is, that Mr. Williams is above the petty 

 practice of dealing in plants, for the purpose of defraying the expenses 

 attendant upon the keeping in good order collections of plants; being 

 convinced that it is destroying the trade of those who make the busi- 

 ness their profession. 



Mr. Miller's garden. — Our readers have no doubt seen our occasion- 

 al notices of Mr. Miller's fine seedling pinks, which were exhibited be- 

 fore the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. Mr. Miller is an elderly 

 man, and spends a great portion of his time in cultivating his little gar- 

 den, to which he has a green-house attached, adjoining his dwelling, 

 about twenty feet long, and nine or ten wide. It is stocked with a pretty 

 collection of various plants, which are in very good health and well 

 grown. We observed one treasure which he possessed, which we be- 

 lieve is in no other collection: this was a fine plant of the Chymocar- 

 puspentaphyllus Don (TropseNdum pentaphyllum,) which had straggled 

 up to the top of the house, and was covered with a profusion of its cu- 

 rious and beautiful blossoms. Fuchsza globosa and microphylla were 

 each in full flower: several plants of £rica arborea, with their slender 

 stems and snowy flowers, were towering above the other plants. Salvia 

 fulgens was showing its spikes of flowers, and .;3cacia longifolia was full 

 of blossoms; camellias, roses, primroses, stocks, &.c. 8tc., innumerable, 

 contributed to render the house as gay as the garden in summer. Mr. 

 Miller showed us a great number of seedling cyclamens, which he had 

 raised, and which were now flowering abundantly; he has also a num- 

 ber of seedling ericas. We wish there were more such select little col- 

 lections of plants. How much delight and innocent pleasure might be 

 derived from one even as circumscribed as this. 



