THE MAGAZINE 



OF 



HORTICULTURE 



JANUARY, 1843. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. A Retrospective Vieio of the Progress of Horticul- 

 ture in the United States, dwnng- the year 1842. By the 

 Editor. 



No better evidence of the coutmned advancement of hor- 

 ticukure need be given, than the superior productions which 

 have been displayed at the several horticultural exhibitions 

 which have been held in different portions of the country 

 the past year, an account of the principal of which will be 

 found in our last number, completing the eighth volume of 

 the Magazine. A single glance at the number and charac- 

 ter of these exhibitions — the great variety of plants and 

 flowers — the still greater abundance of fine fruits — and tie 

 increased quantity of superior vegetables, exhibited, com- 

 pared with those exhibited four or five years since, will 

 convince any one that the interest in gardening pursuits 

 has no way diminished; but, on the contrary, renewed 

 zeal and activity, in the cause of cultivation, appear to 

 have pervaded all classes of society. 



The later improvements in gardening have been accom- 

 plished more silently than those of previous years, when 

 tlie importation of a new variety of fruit, the introduction 

 of a choice plant, or more particularly, when the erection 

 of a conservatory, a greenhouse, or a grapery, were novel- 

 ties so unusual that the building of one. of the smallest di- 

 mensions, was attended with a notoriety which the largest 

 and loftiest structure would now scarcely command. Thus, 

 while the taste for gardening has become more general, ex- 

 tending to every portion of the country, individual efforts, 

 even when conceived on an extended scale and attended 



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