THE MAGAZINE 



OF 



HORTICULTURE 



NOVEMBER, 1843. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. Notes and Recollections of a tour through. Hartford^ 

 New Haven., Neio York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Wash- 

 ington, and some other places, in October, 1843. By the 

 Editor. 



It was on the morning of the 11th of Octoher, that we 

 took our seat in the cars for Springfield, over the Western 

 Rail-road. We started from the Brighton station, where a 

 handsome building in the Egyptian style has been lately 

 erected, for the accommodation of passengers. The num- 

 ber which leave from this station, owing to its proximity to 

 the great cattle mart, and its central location from Cam- 

 bridge and the adjoining towns, is now very large, and the 

 increasing number has induced the directors to erect a build- 

 ing and open an office for the sale of tickets. We have 

 previously spoken of the neat and tasty arrangement of the 

 banks on each side of the Rail-road, where it passes through 

 Messrs. Winship's grounds. Since then additional pains 

 have been taken to extend them on either side, and to plant 

 them with a variety of ornamental trees. 



The morning was cool for the season, though remarkably 

 fine and pleasant. A few early frosts had already given an 

 autumn hue to the varied foliage which filled the nursery 

 grounds of our friends, the Messrs. Winship. But as we 

 left the station and passed rapidly into the well wooded 

 country beyond Newton, the changes of the foliage became 

 greater, and the scarlet tints of the maple stood out con- 

 spicuous among the yellow and purple shades of other trees. 



In little more than two hours we arrived at the Worcester 



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