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to visit some gardens, and also to attend the exhibition of 

 the Essex County Natural History Society, held in Salem. 



The Pomological Garden of the late Mr. Mannmg is a 

 place of great interest to the amateur of fruit. We only 

 regretted that we could not spend a whole day in studying 

 the habits of the different varieties, and noting down the cha- 

 racteristics of many of the sorts. An hour scarcely sufficed 

 to take a passing glance at all the different varieties in 

 bearing, so numerous this season, amounting we believe 

 to nearly one hundred and seventy-five sorts. Some- of the 

 specimens were large and fine ; such as the Queen of the 

 Low Countries, Hacon's Incomparable, King Edward's, Ma- 

 rie Louise, and many others, notwithstanding consider- 

 able quantities had been picked to send to the exhibition of 

 the Mass. Hort. Soc. and the exhibition at Salem. 



^Viff Nurserij of J. M. Ives, adjoining, has been extended 

 since our last visit ; Mr. Ives having purchased a fine spot 

 of ground on the opposite side of the street. Here we saw 

 a fair stock of peach and other trees coming on, and mak- 

 ing a good growth. In a few years Mr. Ives will be able 

 to furnish a variety of trees. 



Garden of Mr. J. F. Allen. — One of the most complete 

 forcing gardens in the vicinity of Boston, will be that of 

 Mr. Allen's. The present year he has taken a new spot of 

 ground, in addition to his own garden, and had already 

 erected a grape house 100 feet long, and was laying the 

 foundation for another of the same length, and to be span- 

 roofed, parallel to it. A third is also in contemplation, in 

 order to unite the three, by crossing from one to the other 

 at the ends. The grapes had just been set out in the house, 

 newly completed, and had just begun to make a fresh growth. 

 Mr. Allen had tried the new plan adopted by an English 

 grape-grower of eminence, in order to give his vines a rapid 

 growth. This was by covering the whole of the border 12 

 inches thick with fresh stable manure, in order to raise the 

 temperature of the border at this season. The effect of its 

 application we shall learn from Mr. Allen. When the whole 

 of the houses are completed, we shall endeavor to give a 

 more detailed account of them, with their dimensions, heat- 

 ing apparatus, &c. 



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