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Mr. Perrifs new hot-house, and green-house. — I have, in another place, 

 stated to you, that Mr. Perry was about erecting two new houses. Both 

 will be eighty feet long; a hot-house forty feet long, and eighteen feet wide, 

 at the back eighteen feet high, and nine feet high in front, and a green- 

 house of the same dimensions. The building will consist of massive 

 brick work. It will have half a span root', and will contain about six 

 thousand liirhts of glass. In front will be double glass windows, and no 

 shutters. The houses will be on a level with the surface, [of the gar- 

 den,] and underneath the green-house will be a deep cellar, forty-six 

 feet long, for the furnaces, coals and a cistern. Each house will be 

 heated by itself, by the furnaces op[)Osite to each other, with hot water. 

 In the hot-house will be a large tan [or bark] bed, for large and fruit- 

 bearing plants, as the Carica Fapuya, Mangifera indica, Crescentia Cu- 

 jide, Mammea, Musa sapientum, &.c. — Id. 



Lantuna SelowW. — This beautiful plant, which we noticed in a late 

 number, and copied some remarks respecting its treatment, is one of the 

 prettiest things in the garden. In the early part of the summer we turn- 

 e<l out into the border a small plant, which has now opened at least lifty 

 of its elegant purple clusters of blooms: it has s])read over the ground to 

 the distance of two foot or more, and is always laden with flowers. Stand- 

 ing close by the side of Ferbena chamsedrifolia, it forms a pretty con- 

 trast, and sets off' the brilliancy of that species. Exclusive of its value in 

 the hot-house, it is a border plant of great beauty, and should be found 

 in every garden. — Ed. 



Cereus trian2;uluris. — A small plant of this magnificent species, in 

 the collection of J. W. Boot, Esq., of Boston, lately produced a flower, 

 which measured fourteen inches in length from the base of tiie tube, 

 and seven inches in diameter between the tips of the petals. The flow- 

 er remained expanded from sunset, at which time it opened, until about 

 twelve o'clock in the morning of the next day. This species has never 

 flowered but once or twice before in this country. — Id. 



Mr. Hogg, nurseryman, of New York, sailed for London, in August. 

 We understand it is his intention to bring out a great quantity of new 

 and rare plants. We are glad to learn that he has visited London for 

 this purpose. If some of our enterprising nurserymen and florists were 

 to either go themselves, or send a competent person, every year, to se- 

 lect and bring out all the new plants, we believe it would be to them a 

 source of great profit. There are many plants which cannot be brought 

 out alive, unless under the care and attention of some expei'ienced per- 

 son during the voyage. — Id. 



Early Quinces. — The first quinces in Faneuil Hall market, this sea- 

 son, were jiroduced in the garden of Henry J. Finn, Esq., of New])ort, 

 R. I. These were jjicked as early as the 18th of September. Four 

 trees yielded seven bushels. Mr. Finn devotes much time to his gar- 

 den during the summer season, at which jjeriod only, he is enal)led to be 

 there, and raises an al)undancc of fine fruits, vegetables and flowers, 

 with which the garden is well stocked, including among the latter, a fine 

 collection of choice dahlias. Indeed, his residence is one of the prettiest 

 in that ancient place. — Id. 



Horticulture in Nantucket. — Perhaps few of our horticultural friends 

 are aware of the jirogress of gardening in this "sea-girt" isle, a san- 

 dy waste, as it is often incorrectly termed. The following extract of a 

 letter from a friend will show to what extent the culture of the grape 

 has already arrived. " I started my grapes the lust of February, and 

 now have (July 20th) a very fine show of black Hamhurghs; some of 

 the bunches, I think, will weigh four pounds. I have also a house, 

 rough built, in which is over seventy vines, of various kinds, mostly two 

 years from the cuttings, over fifty of which are now bearing, anil will 



