284 Notes of a Visit to several Gardens. 



arched, and others covered with flower buds. The plants are 

 well grown, and in fine vigor. Great quantities of all the dou- 

 ble varieties are grown from single eyes or cuttings on their 

 own roots, and in two years they are ready for sale ; one long 

 pit was filled with plants raised in this way. One value these 

 plants possess is. that in case the top is accidentally broken 

 or dies, a sucker is immediately thrown up from the roots. 



The roses were yet flowering in the open ground, but with a 

 fading beauty, owing to late severe frosts. Many new kinds 

 have been recently added, but from their rarity we did not 

 note any strong enough to bloom well. 



Lmidreth and Fulton^ s Nurseries^ Federal Street. — Our first 

 and only visit to these nurseries, previous to last autumn, was 

 in the fall of 1831, then well known as the establishment of 

 Messrs. D. & C. Landreth, who for many years had obtained 

 the reputation of the most extensive nurserymen in the coun- 

 try. A few brief notes taken at that time, appeared in the 

 first volume of our magazine (p. 201) in the spring of 1835. 

 A great change has been made in the premises since that 

 period ; then we only found one or two small greenhouses, but 

 now they number five or six, and all well stocked with a 

 very fine collection of plants, more particularly camellias and 

 cactae. The neighborhood of the nurseries has also greatly 

 improved. We now found it hemmed in on all sides with 

 dwellings, where in 1831 only extensive fields and pastures 

 spread out, nearly two miles from the thickly populated part 

 of the city. 



Referring to our account above mentioned, we particularly 

 alluded to the fine hedges of the arbor vitse which existed 

 here, and recommended this fine tree as peculiarly well 

 adapted for screens or hedges to shut out one part of the gar- 

 den from another, or hide disagreeable objects. Twelve years' 

 experience has convinced us of the correctness of our remarks, 

 and we may still urge them upon the attention of our readers. 

 The arbor vitse is unquestionably one of the finest of ever- 

 green trees, and far superior to any other for forming hedges 

 or screens. 



The same old tree of the Madura aurantiaca, which we 

 then saw in fruit, produced the last year upwards of twenty- 

 six bushels of fruit. It is now an unusually large tree and 



