THE MAGAZINE 



HORTICULTURE. 



APRIL, 1842. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIOiNS. 



Art. I. J^otes made during a visit to Miv York, Philadel- 

 phia, Baltimore, and Washington, and intermediate places^ 

 from August 8th to the 23d, 1841. By the Editor. 



(^Concluded from p. S6.) 



Washington, D. C, Aug. 20, 1841. — When we contem- 

 plated a visit to Washington, we were in hojjes that we should 

 have the opportunity to do so at our leisure; but it is almost 

 unnecessary to say that we had very little spare time, owing 

 to our delay in the cities of Baltimore and Philadelphia. By 

 confining our attention mostly to the amateur and commercial 

 gardens of the city, we found time to note down all that ap- 

 peared interesting and new. We also took a hurried walk 

 through the grounds of the Capitol, and the garden attached to 

 the President's house, with a view to notice their arrange- 

 ments. 



The Columbia Horticultural Society has been established 

 several years, and has held some few annual exhibitions, ac- 

 counts of which have ajipeared in our pages. But for the last 

 year or two, the interest in the Society appears to have decreas- 

 ed, and we believe no annual exhibition was held for the autimin 

 of 1841. It would be a source of regret to see this society, 

 which has been instrumental in spreading a taste for gardening 

 pursuits, fall into a declining state, which would prevent its 

 further usefulness. We trust the amateur and practical culti- 

 vators in and around the city will use their exertions to sustain 

 and preserve it. There certainly has been a constantly in- 

 creasing taste for plants since it was first organized, and now 

 that a sufficient number of beautiful objects are in the hands of 



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