223 Floricultural and Botanical JVotices. 



silver maple (.^^cer dasycarpum Torrey,) ivvo trees that are 

 the least suitable for the purpose. Look at Fairmount, the 

 boast and glory of our city, laid out and planted with the 

 commonest trees, and the most unfit for such a place: but so 

 it is; all corporations are alike careless in appointing men who 

 are entirely incapacitated for the situation, and who leave the 

 work of planting to men who have no taste in making a proper 

 selection of kinds, or who are interested in the sale of partic- 

 ular kinds of trees. I would, in my remarks, except Wash- 

 ington Square, though there is a great deal of trash there. 



Mr. Fulton, in pointing out some plantations of trees, re- 

 marked that he had lately practised what he considered a de- 

 cided improvement in planting out shrubs and fruit trees; that 

 is, lifting them and transplanting every two years, so that 

 when they come to be permanently put out, they never fail to 

 grow. Although attended with some labor, yet the advantage 

 is manifest in confining the roots to a small space. [This is 

 analogous to root-pruning, and is attended with similar results: 

 the article on the subject, on a previous page, may be read in 

 connection with this hint. — Ed.] 



The garden of Mrs. Stott, in Turner's Lane, under the 

 management of Mr. Chalmers, Sen., is in fine condition. 

 The houses are small, but filled with the most choice plants 

 and specimens that can be procured, Mrs. Stott being very 

 fond of plants. A small grapery is attached to the house, 

 where the grapes are in a forward slate, and the bunches 

 shouldering well. The main garden is nearly square, laid out 

 in rectangular beds, with an oval in the centre filled with many 

 choice roses, and plants of various kinds. The borders are 

 full of fine roses and herbaceous plants, and with the rarest 

 and best annuals to be found: the whole in the finest keeping 

 imaginable, rendering it a perfect jewel of a place, and well 

 worth inspection when you visit our city again. 



Lemon Hill, the well known and once beautiful garden of 

 the late Henry Pratt, Esq., is now occupied by Mr. R. Kil- 

 vington, who has a fine collection of plants. Mr. Kilvington 

 is one of the most ardent students of botany, and is the only 

 one who cultivates our native plants: of these he has many 

 fine specimens. The situation being in the neighborhood of 

 the city, is always the resort of the amateur and lover of na- 

 ture, and is kept in very fine order. — Yours, ^n JlmaUur, 

 May, 1842. 



