THE 



AMERICAN 



GAEDENER'S MAGAZINE 



JUNE, 1836. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. Some Account of the Camellia House and Stove, ac- 

 companied with Engravings, lately erected at Hawthorn Grove, 

 Dorchester, the Residence of M. P. Wilder, Esq. By the 

 Conductors. 



The green-house which formerly occupied the spot upon which 

 the cameUia house and stove, lately erected, stand, was very old, 

 and almost totally unfit for the purposes for which it was intended, 

 The wood-work was much decayed, and the sashes, which were 

 glazed with glass nearly a quarter of an inch in thickness, were in 

 a very bad condition. Under these circumstances, and the collec- 

 tion of plants continually increasing, Mr. Wilder contemplated the 

 erection of a magnificent range of houses upon a different spot, ad- 

 jacent to his dwelling, and which, for many reasons, gave it a great 

 preference over the one where the present new one is built. But 

 from some disappointment in the procuring of a suitable person to 

 superintend the work, and the season having far advanced, and 

 there being some danger that the range would not be sufficiently 

 completed to insure the safety of the plants before the setting in 

 of cold weather, this idea was abandoned for the present, and the 

 one fitted up of which we are about to describe. We believe it is 

 Mr. Wilder's intention to carry his contemplated projections into 

 effect as soon as circumstances will allow ; but this one will answer 

 all purposes for a few years, when, if the other houses are erected, 

 it will be made into a forcing house, and divided into compartments, 

 to include a peachery, grapery, and, perhaps, a pinery. We hope 

 that all this will be done, and we are happy in being the medium, 

 by his permission, of communicating the improvements which have 

 thus far been made to the public. 



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