THE MAGAZINE 



OF 



HORTICULTURE. 



MARCH, 1844. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



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

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

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

 Editor. 



{Continued from p. 48.) 



Washington, October 19th. — We left New York on the 

 morning of the ISth, and passed through Philadelphia and 

 Baltimore to Washington, where we arrived at 2 o'clock on 

 the morning of the 19th. Having in our volume for 1842 

 (VIII. p. 121,) given a detailed account of the nurseries and 

 gardens in the city, and not expecting to find many great 

 improvements since that time, the record of which would 

 interest our readers, we only remained until the morning of 

 the 20th, when we set out on our return to Baltimore. 



Experitnental Garden of the National Institute. — Since 

 our notes alluded to above, the only particularly new move- 

 ment in gardening, is the establishment of the garden of 

 the National Institute. The ship Vincennes of the Exploring 

 Expedition, arrived home in the spring of 1842, bringing 

 Messrs. Pickering and Breckenridge, the botanists attached 

 to the Expedition, who brought with them, in addition to 

 great quantities of seeds, bulbs, &;c., upwards of one hun- 

 dred species of live plants. These were, for the time, depo- 

 sited in the greenhouse of Mr. Douglas, until a building 

 could be erected. For this purpose a small piece of ground 

 was selected, in the rear of the new Patent Office, and in 

 the autumn a house was completed about thirty feet long, 

 and the plants removed thereto, where they were under the 

 charge of Mr. Breckenridge. Many of the plants increasing 



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