NOVEMBER. 517 



SUBURBAN VISITS, 



Nursery of Wm. Reid, Elizabethtown, N. J. — On our 

 return from a recent visit to Philadelphia, we improved the 

 opportunity to call upon our correspondent Mr. Reid, of Eliz- 

 abethtown, and look through his nursery. It was the first 

 time we had been upon his grounds since he removed from 

 his old place at Murray Hill, New York. 



Mr. Reid's grounds comprise about forty acres, and are 

 delightfully located near the town, about five minutes' walk 

 from the Elizabethtown station on the New Jersey and Phil- 

 adelphia Railroad ; they are slightly elevated, just enough to 

 allow a good drainage, and form nearly a square. It is about 

 eight years since Mr. Reid took up his residence on the place, 

 which he had purchased a year or two before and began to 

 stock it with trees. It is now in the finest order, laid out in 

 large squares, with turf walks, which are kept neatly edged 

 and closely shaven. In the immediate vicinity of the house 

 the grounds are beautifully arranged with a lawn of half an 

 acre or so, grouped with some very fine specimens of rare 

 trees ; the whole is separated from the nursery by arborvitae 

 hedges, which are superb specimens of this valuable ever- 

 green. 



The objects which most interested us were Mr. Reid's 

 evergreen trees, of which he has a good stock. We saw here 

 neat specimens of Juniperus tamarscifolia, stricta, repens, 

 ericoides, canadensis, siberica, communis pendula, and flagelli- 

 formis. A Washingtonia gigantea, nearly three feet high. 

 Thuja tartarica is a different variety from the one we have 

 received from Leroy. The Deodars were sadly cut up here 

 by the last winter, which was unusually severe, and many 

 tall specimens were killed to the ground. It is doubtful 

 whether this will ever be a satisfactory tree north of Phila- 

 delphia. 



Weigeh'a amabilis we saw here in bloom, and we think it 

 may be set down as an autumn-flowering species. Our own 

 plants flowered all the autumn, but we thought it might be 

 from the treatment of the plants, which were set out late. Its 



