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anticipate good results. On the way from Atlanta to Nashville we saw 

 miles of cotton-fields, in some of which laborers were still at work glean- 

 ing the crop. At Nashville our time was much limited ; but by the po- 

 liteness of Mr. Peck, brother of Prof Peck of Heidelberg, whom we met 

 abroad last year, we visited Mr. Lysches' well-managed nursery, where he 

 had very fine specimen pear-trees, which succeed well. We rode out to 

 Gen. Harding's plantation ; but the general was on a deer-hunt in his park 

 of twelve hundred acres. We could hear the hounds and horns, and saw on 

 the lawn a fine buck which had just been sent in. His estate embraces three 

 thousand acres of splendid soil, some of which was so fertile, that it had 

 never been manured. We saw his large stock of blood-horses and their 

 progeny, for which he is so celebrated ; also his Cashmere goats, whose 

 wool, seven inches long, scarcely less beautiful than a maiden's wavy 

 tresses, commands a dollar and sixty cents per pound. 



At Louisville, soon after our arrival, our valued and esteemed friends and 

 patriarchs in horticulture, Messrs. E. D. Hobbs and Lawrence Young, prof- 

 fered their attentions ; but, Sunday intervening, we were unable to visit these 

 or other places of note. We, liowever, rode to the cemeter\', where are many 

 very fine monuments, thousands of soldiers' graves, and most of the old and 

 new choice evergreens, shrubs, &c. Arriving at Cincinnati, we most gladly 

 accepted the courtesies of our former acquaintances, R. Buchanan and M. 

 Werk ; of Capt. Anderson, president of the horticultural society ; and of Mr. 

 Resor. After examining the samples of Mr. Werk's wines, for the manufac- 

 ture of which he is so noted, we took a stroll through the extensive wine- 

 cellars of the famous Longworth Company. These embrace a large stock 

 of the best varieties, among which we noticed a new sparkling wine from the 

 Rentz grape, which the visitors esteemed highly. Capt. Anderson, the 

 present proprietor, is among the most liberal citizens of Ohio, having given 

 five hundred dollars for premiums on grapes and wine last year. 



But we must not omit to allude to our visit to the Spring-grove Cemetery. 

 This comprises four hundred and twenty acres of beautiful rolling land. 

 Under the care of its present superintendent, Mr. Strauss, every thing is in 

 the best condition. He introduces into the planting and ornamenting of the 

 grounds only the most appropriate subjects. But what especially pleased 

 us was the fact, that, by the regulations, all curb or edging stones around 



