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success in grape culture. " Under the su- 

 pervision of his son, Professor Sargent, 

 this place, with its magnificent landscape, 

 its conservatories of plants, and its ex- 

 tensive collection of conifers, rhododen- 

 drons, and azaleas, is thrown open to the 

 public every year. With its extensive and 

 rare collection of native and foreign trees 

 and shrubs, and its wide and grand em- 

 brace of one hundred acres in extent, 

 this estate is one of great interest for the 

 study of landscape and ornamental cul- 

 ture." l 



Cambridge, which has been noted from 

 the middle of the last century for its gar- 

 dens and ornamental grounds, has also 

 given great attention to the production 

 of fruits and to the establishment of ex- 

 tensive experimental grounds and nurse- 

 ries. Conspicuous among these last were 

 those of Hovey & Co., which have long 

 given to them a wide reputatien both at 



1 " The Horticulture of Boston and Vicinity," 

 by M. P. Wilder.-- Memorial History of Boston^ 

 vol. iv. 



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