SOUTHERN HORTICULTURAL TRIP. 



The condition of horticultural art and science in the Southern States of 

 the Union is, perhaps, less accurately known to many of your readers than 

 that of England, France, and other European countries. With a view to 

 supply in part this deficiency, and also with the anxious desire to " seek the 

 lost and build the old waste places," and thus to aid in bringing together 

 again old friends who have been separated during the late crisis of our 

 country, a party of horticulturists, consisting of P. Barry, George EUwanger 

 of Rochester, N.Y., Robert Manning of Salem, Mass., and myself, recently 

 made a rapid tour through the chief seaboard cities of the South as far as 

 Jacksonville, Fla. We returned by the way of Augusta and Atlanta, Ga., 

 Nashville, Tenn., Louisville, Ky., and Cincinnati, O. A few of the most 

 important observations made are noted below, embracing some memoranda 

 of those trees and plants of extraordinary size which are not hardy in our 

 Northern States. 



The pride of the South, the Magnolia grandi/Iora, was first seen at Balti- 

 more, Md., and Washington, D.C. ; but the injury which some of the trees 



