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scholtzia crocea.") On the 25th March, on the "bottoms" 

 and on the banks of a stream, was a showy Lvjmie, of ex- 

 traordinary beauty, growing four to five feet high, and cov- 

 ered with spikes in bloom, filUng the air with delightful per- 

 fume. Convallaria stellata, familiar to us, was considered the 

 best remedial plant among the Snake Indians. In other re- 

 mote spots were Aquilegia cserulea, violets, larkspur, straw- 

 berries, &c. 



The astronomical and meteorological observations are, in 

 themselves, voluminous, and must indicate great labor and 

 vast enlerprise. From explorations like these, even under 

 such disadvantages, in the science of Botany alone, we can 

 anticipate most interesting and valuable results ; and to our 

 floricultural or more useful horticultural pursuits and avoca- 

 tions, many and signal advantages must accrue. X. 



January^ 1846. 



Art. III. Some observations on the progress and present 

 state of Horticultwe in tJie neighborhood of Cincinnati. 



By Messrs. Sayer & Heaver. 



Observing that none of your able correspondents, from this 

 region, have informed you of the state of horticultural mat- 

 ters in the queen city, we have reluctantly taken up our pen 

 in the cause ; being unwilling that our fair city should re- 

 main unrepresented in the horticultural assemblage, knowing 

 that in horticulture, as in commerce and manufactures, she 

 is emphatically the queen city of the west. 



We have now six established nurseries in this vicinity, 

 viz : — Mr. A. II. Ernst's, on the Harrison Road, who has a 

 large stock of fruit and ornamental trees ; west of the city, 

 on the river road, is Mr. S. S. Jackson's establishment, who 

 has a fine collection of roses and greenhouse plants, &.c. 

 Near the last named gentleman's, is the establishment of Mr. 

 James Howarth, who has also a general collection of green- 

 house plants and shrubbery. Northeast of the city, on the 

 Reading and Lebanon turnpike, is the nursery of the sub- 

 scribers, consisting of a general assortment of fruit and orna- 



