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a greater variety of pears were fruited last year than any 

 previous one. A great number of Van Mons's pears are still 

 in this collection, which have not yet produced fruit. 



Mr. Lee, of Salem, has made an attempt to introduce sev- 

 eral of the hardy pines, and most ornamental trees, and with 

 fair success ; we are glad that attention is turned to this im- 

 portant object. 



Messrs. Hovey & Co. have added an immense variety of 

 fruit trees, ornamental trees, shrubs, roses, greenhouse plants, 

 &c., to their collection, and an additional house for plants has 

 been erected the past fall. Many additions of new plants 

 have been selected in Europe and on the Continent, which 

 will be offered for sale the coming season. JNIr. W. Kenrick 

 has added to his nursery a greenhouse department, which 

 was conducted the past summer by our correspondent, Mr. Car- 

 michael, now about to leave to establish himself in the West. 



The Flushing nurserymen continue to keep up a thriving 

 stock. A new establishment has been commenced by Dr. 

 Valk, who visited Europe the last summer. Messrs. Parsons 

 & Co. are adding a grapery of a hundred feet to their nursery. 

 On the Hudson, our correspondents, the Messrs. Downing, 

 are bringing forward fine trees, including many of the plums 

 which have originated around Albany. 



During the last summer, Mr. Mackenzie, of Philadelphia, 

 visited England to purchase plants, and brought home fifty or 

 sixty cases. Mr. Buist is under the necessity of vacating 

 one of the squares now occupied by him in the city, and has 

 purchased a piece of ground out of town preparatory to the 

 removal of such trees as remain unsold. 



In and around Cincinnati, we can already see the good 

 effects of the establishment of the Horticultural Society. Its 

 exhibitions have already made a perceptable increase in the 

 taste,- and the demand, for trees and fruits in that vicinity. 

 Mr. Ernst made a visit to the East last autumn, and purchas- 

 ed a variety of trees. 



Garden Literature. 



The publications of the year have been a Rose Manual by 

 Mr, Buist, and new editions of Downing' s Landscape Garden- 



