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Around Boston, the nursery collections are every where 

 improving. Messrs. Winship have had heavy drains upon 

 their stock of forest and ornamental trees, of which they 

 have a good collection. Messrs. Hovey & Co. have added a 

 very large quantity of new fruits, particularly pears, forest 

 trees, shrubs, roses, greenhouse plants, &c. to their collection; 

 they have also extended their grounds, which now comprise 

 upwards of 35 acres of every variety of soil, one of which 

 is wholly devoted to roses. Specimen fruit trees extending 

 in all more than a mile, border all the walks. Messrs. Hyde, 

 Kenrick, and others, have their nurseries filled with fine 

 stocks of trees. 



A hasty visit to New York, and other cities south, will 

 enable us to add some remarks on the state of gardening, as 

 soon as we can find room. In Flushing, the nurserymen 

 all appear to be doing a thriving business, and filling up 

 their extensive grounds. Our correspondents, Messrs. Down- 

 ing of Newburgh, have a very excellent stock of fruit trees, 

 &c. The nursery of Mr. Reid, in New York city, is now 

 being cut up by the formation of new streets, which we 

 should think would soon compel him to remove to his 

 grounds in New Jersey. 



In Philadelphia, Messrs. Buist, Mackenzie, and Ritchie & 

 Dick, have each added new buildings to their premises. 



In Baltimore, both the Messrs. Feasts have improved their 

 grounds and erected several new greenhouses ; but we be- 

 lieve there is less general improvement here than in any other 

 city of the same extent. 



We should have been glad to have learned something of 

 the state of commercial gardening in other places; but if our 

 correspondents do not keep us informed, in this respect, it is 

 impossible for us to speak with any correctness upon the 

 subject. Mr. Elliot, Editor of the Westerji Reserve Maga- 

 zine, of Cleveland, Ohio, and Mr. Mackintosh, of the same 

 place, visited the East the past autumn, and the latter gen- 

 tleman took home many fine new roses and other plants. 

 Both gentlemen speak of the rapid improvement of garden- 

 ing in their region. 



