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country at all celebrated in their cultivation, that although 

 some few collections in Europe may exceed the author's in the 

 number of varieties, still it is believed few or none surpass 

 it in the selection of the most choice and intrinsic flowers ; 

 and prices have been paid in many cases altogether unwar- 

 ranted by the demand this country has yet afforded, but with 

 the expectation that the increasing botanic taste evinced 

 throughout our country, would also in time devote to this 

 class of plants the attention which it merits. It may be well 

 to remark, that the Bulbs which are frequently sent out on 

 consignment to this country from Holland, and sold at our 

 auctions, are the mere refuse, and such as are held in no es- 

 teem either by amateurs or connoisseurs, and no idea can be 

 formed by them of the beauty of the more estimable kinds ; 

 and it is to be regretted that our citizens should have been 

 so often duped in their purchases of these roots, under the 

 imposition of high sounding names. 



GREEN-HOUSE TREES, SHRUBS, AND 

 PLANTS. 



Among the plants which have hitherto been introduced to 

 this country, none exceed those which have been received 

 from China and Japan; in the former of which countries 

 they are said to excel all other nations in the cultivation of 

 flowers. It is also a happy circumstance, that nearly all the 

 plants which have yet been received from either of those 

 countries, are among the hardier kinds of Green-house 

 plants, and succeed with very little attention ; and indeed a 

 number of them are found to withstand the winters of the 

 middle states. It being therefore so desirable an object to 

 obtain all the valuable plants of those countries, arrangements 

 have been made, by which that part of the author's collec- 

 tion has been greatly augmented, and it is at present in this 

 respect very complete. I will now commence by giving de- 

 scriptions of some fruits cultivated here in Green-houses, 

 but which it is expected may in time become perfectly na- 



