J^otes on Gardens and Js'^urseries. 135 



Art. IV. Jfotes on Gardens and J^^rseries. 



Belmont Place, Mr. Cushhvg''s, Feb. 28//i. — We have never 

 visited this fine place when the collection of plants looked belter 

 than they do at the present moment. The specimens of the va- 

 rious plants have continued to increase in size, and have now ac- 

 quired sufficient strength to bloom abundantly and with full vigor. 

 Some new additions have been made, though not to any great 

 extents, and those who seek for new varieties will find less at Mr. 

 Cushing's than at some other private gardens and nurseries. 



Several improvements have been made, the past year, on the 

 place. Since our last visit JMr. Gushing has erected a large, 

 convenient and well constructed dwelling for Mr. Haggerston, 

 at the opposite point from where he formerly resided, situated 

 on the main road to West Cambridge: attached to the dwelling 

 is a fine dairy, erected in a beautiful style, and finished in a 

 superior and w^orkmanlike manner. It will serve as a model to 

 all who may feel desirous of adding such structures to their 

 farms. We hope, at some future time, by permission of Mr. 

 Gushing, to ofi^er our readers a pl^n of this building. Many 

 more improvements are contemplated and making; the more im- 

 portant of these is the erection of a new mansion, upon, or near, 

 the site of the present one, which, we have understood, will be 

 razed to the ground in the spring. But we reserve our remarks 

 on this subject until another opportunity. 



The green-house, or large centre house of the main range, 

 which we entered first, is arrapged in excellent order. Gerani- 

 ums and roses cover the two first stages, and the miscellaneous 

 plants occupy the back stage: one of the small end stages is 

 filled wMth heaths, and the opposite one with various plants, — the 

 whole flourishing in full health, and displaying one dense mass of 

 luxuriant foliage and beautiful flowers. Entering the house from 

 the front, the first plants that strike the eye are an Azalea indica 

 hybrida, and A. ledifolia, both covered with a profusion of crim- 

 son and white blossoms. A plant of jErica concolor,' about five 

 feet high, and one sheet of bloom, was one of the most beautiful 

 and surpassingly elegant objects we have ever seen. The flow- 

 ers are produced in threes upon the point of every terminal 

 shoot; they are tubular, slightly curved downward, a little open 

 at the mouth, of a brilliant and glossy red, tipped with pale yel- 

 low. It is decidedly one of the showiest in cultivation: the 

 plant was imported from Liverpool two years since, and is 

 probably (with the exception of one or two small plants,) only 

 in this collection. On the back stage, immediately in the rear 

 of these plants, the lemons and oranges were literally loaded 

 with their golden fruit: sisveral small plants of rhododendrons 



