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THE MAGAZINE 



OF 



HORTICULTURE. 



JANUARY, 1842. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. A Retrospective View of the Progress of Horticul- 

 ture in the United States, during the year 1841. By the 

 Editor. 



The taste for horticulture continues to increase throughout 

 the country with much rapidity, and new gardens, villa resi- 

 dences, and commercial establishments for the sale of nursery 

 productions, are every where increasing. From the great ex- 

 tent of territory over which the gardening operations of this 

 country are spread, the rapidity with which improvement has 

 taken place cannot be so easily perceived: if they were all 

 reduced to an extent of surface within the compass of that of 

 England, what is accomplished every year would astonish the 

 most accurate observer. But scattered over twenty-six States, 

 and comprising an area of two millions of square miles, it is 

 scarcely possible to form an accurate opinion of the advance- 

 ment of horticulture in this country. 



After the detailed notices which have appeared in our last 

 volume, upon the gardens and state of gardening in New York 

 and Philadelphia, and with the continuation of the same arti- 

 cle, which will ajDpear in the succeeding numbers of the INlag- 

 azine, giving the results of our tour in Baltimore and Washing- 

 ton, there will be less for us to say at this time, without in some 

 degree repeating what we have already advanced. We shall 

 therefore, as briefly as possible, note down the more important 

 improvements which have marked the progress of horticulture 

 for 1841, referring, as occasion may require, to the various 

 articles and papers which have appeared in the past volume. 



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