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There are twenty-five acres in the three nurseries, all closely 

 filled with a great variety of fruit, and ornamental trees, and 

 shrubs of every kind that it has been in the power of the pro- 

 prietors to obtain in this or foreign countries, with an extensive 

 green-house establishment for exotic and tender plants of this 

 continent. 



The borders for herbaceous, flowering, and useful, or medici- 

 nal plants, extend round and across the two principal nurseries, 

 are from twelve to fifteen feet wide, and would form in extent 

 a mile or more. 



In extent of land, variety of plants, neatness and judicious 

 arrangement through the different sections of the gardens, green- 

 houses, and nursery, these highly cultivated grounds are full 

 of gratification for the gardener and the lover of fruits and 

 flowers. 



2. The nursery of William Kenrick, at Nonantum Hill, is in 

 Newton, 6.^ miles from Boston. Thirty acres are comprised in 

 the nursery grounds, including the land on which are the build- 

 ings, garden, and those vacant lands which for a season are 

 necessarily and occasionally appropriated to other uses in some 

 of the interval years of rotation. These nursery grounds are 

 principally devoted to the cultivation of the most approved and 

 superior varieties of fruit trees, and also the most hardy and 

 beautiful ornamental species of trees, shrubs, and herbaceous 

 plants. No pains, labor, or expense have been spared in obtain- 

 ing all that is new and valuable and beautiful, and adapted to 

 our climate, from the most celebrated resources and collections 

 of all countries ; — these selections are adapted to every section 

 of the Union. 



3. In the same neighborhood is another extensive nursery of 

 the same kind, belonging to John A. Kenrick, a place designa- 

 ted as Nonantum Dale. It is well stocked with fruit trees, and 

 a large collection of ornamental trees of the most approved va- 

 rieties, flowering shrubs, and herbaceous plants. 



There are several other nurseries and gardens for the sale of 

 plants and flowers, and fruit trees, in the same town, and in 



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