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riety. Mr. Mantel's stock of oranges is large, — the plants 

 dwarf and stock}'-, — and in very good health. The variety 

 is the Otaheite, well adapted to parlor cultivation, from 

 its blooming, and producing fruit when only a foot high. 



The roses were to us the chief attraction here : but the 

 season being rather late, few were in bloom; and we regret- 

 ted that our visit had not been made a month earlier, when 

 we should have seen a splendid display. The plants were 

 nearly all turned out into the ground, or plunged in pots, 

 and had made a good growth. Among those which were 

 extra fine, we noted down Bougere, an immensely large tea 

 rose, of globular form, extremely double and of a pale rosy 

 bronze shade ; Triumph of Luxembourg, well known as a 

 superb tea rose, something in the way of Bougere, very 

 large, but with a deep bud' shade. Several kinds, under 

 numbers, were exceedingly fine. Among the Bourbons, 

 Augustine Lelieur was in bloom, showing, several of its 

 globular, bright rosy, flowers. Mr. Mantel has a large 

 number of standard roses of the Bengal and Tea varieties, 

 several of which were in bloom : his Catalogue, wliich is now 

 before us, contains upwards of two hundred and fifty kinds 

 of Bengal, Tea, Noisette, and Bourbon roses. 



Mr. Mantel has a fine collection of fruits, as many of our 

 readers are probably aware ; he exhibited sixty-two varie- 

 ties of pears at the Fair of the American Institute. The 

 trees, from which these specimens were taken, are planted 

 in the border side of the main walks, and are trained in the 

 pyramidal or en qneno7iille form, a mode which we have ad- 

 vised as best to adopt in all small gardens, where the ground 

 is wanted for raising flowers or vegetables. Trees thus 

 trained do not shade the ground to any extent, are easily 

 kept within limits, and produce a supply of fruit propor- 

 tionate to the space they occupy. 



Most of the worked fruit trees we noticed to be of foreign 

 growth. Mr. Mantel has an extensive acquaintance in 

 France, and from sources with which he is well acquaint- 

 ed, from personal inspection, he procures his trees. He has, 

 however, a qnantity of seedling stocks coming on, which 

 will soon be ready for grafting or budding. 



Had our time permitted, we should have endeavored to 

 call at this establishment again, with the hope of seeing 

 Mr. Mantel ; we had not leisure to do so, and at another 

 time we may allude to this place again. 



