10 Retrospective View of the 



nurseries of any extent have been commenced since lasi 

 year, but many improvements have been effected in some 

 of the older ones. In our next number we shall offer a 

 few notes taken in October last while on a short tour to 

 New York, when we visited a few of the nurseries in that 

 vicinity. 



The pomological garden of our late lamented friend and 

 correspondent, Mr. Manning, will be continued by his two 

 sons, both quite young men, but we believe feeling much 

 interested in gardening, and instructed by their father in 

 the cultivation of trees. This fine collection, therefore, 

 which embraces upwards of 800 varieties of pears alone, 

 will be kept up; and as Mr. Manning had all the trees care- 

 fully re-labelled just before his death, scions of all the 

 sorts may be procured true to name. The task was no 

 light one ; and, though enfeebled in body, Mr. Manning 

 seemed to feel it a duty he owed to the science of pomolo- 

 gy, to accomplish the object, that the results of his labors 

 for nearly quarter of a century, spent in proving fruits, 

 should not be ultimately lost. In a letter to us, written a 

 short time previous to his death, he congratulated himself 

 on having marked all his trees, so that scions could be 

 cut true to name of every variety he possessed. From the 

 pomological garden upwards of 120 varieties of pears were 

 sent for exhibition, at the Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety, the past fall. 



The recently established nursery of Messrs. Hovey & 

 Co., at Cambridge, is now stocked with a collection of 

 pears, apples, cherries, peaches, (fcc, including a large part 

 of Mr. Manning's fine kinds, and the best selections from 

 the nurseries of England and France. The new conserva- 

 tory is now filled with a superb collection of camellias, 

 and more than a thousand flowers will be in bloom the 

 coming month. In addition to these, a collection of Ben- 

 gal, Tea, Noisette and Bourbon roses has been added, of 

 upwards of 200 varieties. 



Messrs. A. J. Downing & Co., our correspondents, of 

 Newburgh, N. Y., have lately issued an excellent C'a^a/oo-?^e 

 of fruit trees, ornamental trees, &c. The fruits are all de- 

 scribed after the manner of the London Horticultural Soci- 

 ety's Catalogue. The descriptions are made, generally, 

 from fruits obtained from specimen trees which fruited at 

 their nursery. Their collection of shrubs, particularly of 

 the magnolias and rarer trees, is very good. 



