THE MAGAZINE 



OF 



RTICULTURE. 



FEBRUARY, 1844. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. Notes and Recollections of a tour through Hartford^ 

 New Haven, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Wash- 

 ington, and some other places, in October, 1843. By the 

 Editor. 



{Continued from Vol. IX. p. 410.) 



New York, October 16th. — Having left New Haven late 

 on the evening of the 12th, we arrived in New York early 

 the next morning, but from other engagements did not find 

 leisure to visit any gardens until Monday the IGth. 



Nursery of Mess?'s. Hogg 4' Sons, Yorkville. — Our last 

 visit to Mr. Hogg's city garden was in the fall of 1841, when 

 we gave some account of it, (Vol. VII. p. 363.) We then 

 mentioned that he had commenced the formation of a new 

 nursery at Yorkville, in anticipation of the destruction of 

 the one he then occupied in Broadway. The corporation 

 having long since laid out a street directly through the 

 grounds, they commenced in 1842 to grade and level the 

 land, and Mr. Hogg then had to remove from the premises 

 to the spot he now occupies. 



The nursery is very pleasantly located on the eastern 

 side of the third Avenue, on 86th street, about five miles 

 from the city, and a short distance from Hellgate Ferry. 

 It contains, we believe, upwards of 12 acres ; the soil is a 

 deep rich loam, on a stiff, gravelly subsoil, very well 

 adapted to the growth of trees, and being rather an ele- 

 vated situation, is not subject to early frosts. 



Three large green-houses have been erected, forming 

 three sides of a square ; and the materials were nearly 

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