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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



Oct. 3, 18'2S, 



PARMENTIER'S 



HORTICULTURAL GARDEN, 



>EAa BROOKLVS— (Containing 24 ncres.) 



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10 squares 



A. Dwelling house 



B f^aborer s dwelling? 



C Tool and work liou^r 



DBarn 



E Green houses 



F Hot beds "<: 



G Place for plants in svinmier 



H Herbaceous plant garden 



I Rustic arbor 



ffv French saloon 



L Nectarine and peach tree ali'y 



M Pear tree alle>' 



IN Apple do. 



O Plum do 



P rherry do- 



1 Vines 



2 Rose trees 

 r> Ornamental 



trees 

 ■I Peach trees 

 5 Apple " 

 C Plum '• 



7 Pear " 



8 Cherry •• 



9 Imported 

 fruit trees 



10 Voung vines 



1 1 Quince stock 



12 Monthly 

 strawberries 



O Place for inanur,- and weeds. 



2o0 



CI 

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OTHER KINDS OF FRUIT TREtS. 



Nectarines, 



Apricot.-;, 



Walnuts, 



Chestnuts, 



Filberts, . 



Ilazlciiiit^, 



15 kinds. 

 18 " 



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V '2tf '■ 



Quinfps 

 Raspiierrii'S, 

 Goosclicrrics, 

 (tin ant.'-, 

 HiffiM'tieif ci, 



5 kiiifU 



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From the New York Farmer and Horticultural Re 

 pobitory. 



One of tlic liest planned and Ijcst exe- 

 cuted models of a garden wliicli we have 

 visited, is tlie cstablislmient of Mr A. Par- 

 MENTiER, about two iniles from Brooklyn. 

 The preceding map will serve to convey 

 some idea of the general disposition of 

 the whole, but we are confident that no 

 plan nor description can furnish an ade- 

 quate image of this delightful spot. We 

 look upon it as an era in the history of 

 our Horticulture. We do not mean to as- 

 »ert by this that the various branches of 

 thrs science were not understood and 

 practised by iiio.st of our gardeners before 

 the ariival of Mr P. Tiic villas and 

 couutry residences of many of our citi- 

 zens, and our markets and fruit shops are 

 abundant evidence that both the onia- 

 \ mental and useful branches of the art 

 were successfully pursiKMl .imoiig us in 

 the tasteful cnibellislimeiit of landscape 

 scenery, .-nd in the abtindant jiroduction 

 of the "finest fruits which any climate can 

 boast of. But we do not know of an in- 

 stance v.here the several departments of 

 the gardener's labors are combined so ex- 

 tensively and with such scientific skill : 

 nearly twenty-five acres of ground arc 

 enclosed, and the inhabitants of the vicin- 

 ity, and those who recollect the original 

 scite of the garden, now view with aston- 

 ishment, in the short space of three years, 

 one of the most stony, rugged, sterile 

 pieces of ground on the whole Island, 

 which seemed to bid defiance to the la- 

 bours of man, now stored with the most 

 luxuriant fruit and blooming with the 

 most beautiful flowers. 



The ground plan of the garden, though 

 nearly level, has considerable diversity of 

 surface ; the most elevated pait facing 

 the .south and south-west, is appropriated 

 for the purpose of a vineyard, and the 

 Imost valuable varieties of the grajK' 'ir- 

 ! eign as well as indigenous, are here ( ■ ili- 

 ivated. The beds of the flowering or or- 

 namental part compose broad belts laid 

 out in a serpentine or waving direction, 

 and edged with thrift, (statice armeriaj.— 

 We have never seen this jtlant applied to 

 this purpose so extensively, and if it could 

 retain the beautiful appearance throiigli 

 out the season, which it exhibits in the 

 first stmimer month, with its delicate pink 

 I blossoms, it wouUl aflTord the finest possi- 

 ! ble material for a border, which could be 

 j employed ; but it does not long remain in 

 I flower, and its verdure is inferior to the 

 i box, which is commoidy used for that 

 t purpose. 



I Nothing can exceed the effect of the 



'contrast in color and form in the ^arioue 



1 flowers and shrubs of these sections, and 



i tbe d.li' ate fcliage and rid- t !o=s^iins of 



many of our native plants are not amv . 



the icp.sf atlvartivp in this as.^fniMage, i 



ra; ged at freriiiri't intervals. The sev 



al spp.-i"s "f Ttohimn, the Philadclph- 



^andiforus. Cue JMesia,the Pleha, i>"^ 



! many others conspicuous for their bcaUtVr 



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