THE MAGAZINE 



HORTICULTURE 



FEBRUARY, 1842. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. JVotes made during a visit to ./Veio York^ Philadel- 

 phia, Baltimore, and Washington, and interr.iediate places, 

 from Auguit Sth to the 2od, 1841. By the Editor. 



{Continued from Vol. VII., p. 413.) 



Garden of Mr. J. B. Smith. — Among the many amateur 

 cultivators of plants with whom we have had the pleasure of 

 an acquaintance, Mr. Smith excels them all in his zeal and 

 ardor in the propagation and growth of fine specimens. To 

 get up a collection of plants, with him appears to be but the 

 work of a season. It is now only six or seven years since he 

 disposed of his whole collection of plants. In the course of 

 three years, he had accumulated another large lot, which he 

 then offered at public auction, as he intended making a visit 

 to Europe. But during only the short space of three years, 

 he has accumulated another very large quaniity of fine plants, 

 nearly all of his own growth, either by propagation or by 

 seeds. Mr. Smith is a great lover of plants; and though he 

 would rather keep his collection within limited bounds, the 

 pleasure he derives from their cultivation will not allow him 

 to remain idle, and his leisure tiuie is devoted to the multipli- 

 cation of every thing which he possesses, and in this he has 

 been one of the most successful cultivators. 



The lovers of that splendid tribe of plants, the camellia, 

 are indebted to Mr. Smith for some of its finest ornaments; 

 his philadelphica, amabile, E'stheri, Vaux?"?", and particularly 

 his Binneyi, will long commemorate his labors in improving 

 the beauty and variety of this truly superb family. Mr. 

 Smith has now [or had, at the time these notes were made,] 



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