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fish ; this being opposite to the range extending from the 

 store, has a fine eftect upon entering from the street. 



The house having but just been completed, the plants 

 had not yet been arranged for the winter. Most of Mr. 

 Dunlap's collection at Haarlem will be brought into the 

 city, and as there are many fine large specimens of camel- 

 lias, when the whole are in bloom, the appearance of the 

 house will be very beautiful. Mr. Dunlap"s seedling ca- 

 mellia, americuna is one of the finest American seedlings. 



Those of our friends who visit New York city, will find 

 it a pleasant way of spending a leisure hour to take a walk 

 through Messrs. Dunlap & Carman's premises. They 

 would scarcely believe, on entering the store, that there 

 could be found sufficient room, in so central and croAvded 

 a portion of the city, for the erection of such large houses. 

 It is but a short distance from Niblo's garden. 



Brooklyn, Oct. 17th, — Midtiflora Garden, Mr. Maynard. 

 The dahlia season being now at its height, we visited the 

 garden of Mr. Maynard, who has a large and fine collec- 

 tion, and found one of the most brilliant displays of fine 

 flowers. Dowager Lady Cooper, Widnall's Queen, and 

 several others, of the same standard of beauty, were loaded 

 with flowers, notwithstanding a great number had been cut 

 a day or two before for the exhibition of the Brooklyn 

 Lyceum. 



The experience of the past season has suggested some 

 new ideas relative to planting. Generally, dahlias flow- 

 ered more sparingly last summer than for several years 

 previous. This was, and we doubt not truly, attributed to 

 the drought of June and July, which injured the plants so 

 much that they did not fully recover ; when the rains of 

 August came on, it gave them renewed vigor, and just as 

 frost overtook them they were showing an abundance of 

 buds. Our conversation with Mr. Maynard, turning upon 

 this subject, we remarked, that though the generally re- 

 ceived opinion was, that early planting was attended with 

 the most success, still we believe, under some circumstances, 

 that the very reverse was the fact ; that indeed, on the 

 average, late planting would be found the safest and best, 

 but that depended upon the season. About the 10th of 

 June may be set down as the safest period to plant out 

 dahlias ; but if the weather had been wet the latter part 

 of May, and there appeared any signs of drought, it would 



