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from the woods in the vicinity, and, when they have stood in 

 the nursery two years, they are ready for sale. Every garden 

 should have at least one tree. We here saw one of the finest 

 weeping ashes ; the tree is ten years old, and is twelve feet 

 across, and twelve feet high, drooping on all sides to the 

 ground. 



The collection of fruit trees is very large, and Mir. Sinclair 

 has spared no expense to procure all the new kinds, having 

 received them from Messrs. Prince, Kenrick, Manning and 

 others ; but many gross errors and synonymes have been de- 

 tected. Among the fruits cultivated, Mr. Corse mentioned 

 the Gen. Hand plum as being new, large and fine ; he showed 

 us a drawing of it, which represents it as a large yellow 

 plum, nearly round, with a suture on one side ; three others 

 cultivated as new, were Taylor's large blue, Cohen's No. 1 

 and No. 2 ; these were all found growing in and around Bal- 

 timore, and may prove kinds already introduced into the vi- 

 cinity of Boston. Among the pears, Mr. Corse showed us 

 one which he calls Moor's Pound, ripening here the middle of 

 August, and measuring three inches long and three inches 

 broad, with a yellow skin, flesh tender and good. 



Having passed some time in hurrying through the nursery, 

 we spent an hour in pleasant conversation with the senior 

 proprietor, during which time he related to us some reminis- 

 cences connected with the early establishment of the place, 

 and the difficulties of getting up a good collection of fruit. 

 Our visit gave us great gratification, and we are happy to 

 record a notice of the Claremont nurseries and our admiration 

 of its respected proprietor, in our pages. 

 (To be continued.^ 



Art. II. Details of a Mode of Transplanting Large Trees^ 

 with entire Ball of Roots, with some remarks on the ntilitij 

 of the plan. By Peter Henderson, gardener to C. F. 

 Spang, Esq., Pittsburg, Pa. 



Perhaps there is no matter connected with horticulture that 

 has been subjected to such division of opinion as the trans- 



