84 Notes and Recollections of a Tour. 



in Mr. Pierce's garden. That pretty shrub, the Pyrus ja- 

 ponica is readily raised from cuttings of the root, which 

 make plants more speedily than layers and with little care. 

 If nurserymen would only cheapen the price for this beau- 

 tiful shrub, it would be oftener planted; for it is worthy a 

 place in every garden. 



We here noticed some very fine specimens of the Swedish 

 juniper, an evergreen tree, perfectly hardy, and rarely seen 

 in our gardens. Its upright growth, light green color, and 

 good form of the tree, render it a fine plant in ornamental 

 plantations. Some of the trees were ten feet high, and 

 clothed with foliage from the ground up. Of sugar maple, 

 sycamore, tulip tree, and other ornamental trees, Mr. Pierce 

 has a very fine collection. 



Garden of Dr. J. S. Gunnell. — The only objects of inter- 

 est here were the large number of young seedling camellias. 

 The old greenhouse has been lengthened by the addition of 

 twenty-five feet, and we found it now nearh^ or quite filled 

 with camellias. Since 1841, the Dr. has flowered two very 

 fine seedlings, viz. : Thomas Jefferson and George Wash- 

 ington, both of which have been described in our last vol- 

 ume (IX. p. 261). A great many seedlings were budded 

 for blooming the present winter. 



Dr. Gunnell now finds it most convenient and better for 

 the health of the plants, to keep them in the house all sum- 

 mer. By washing over the under side of the glass with 

 whiting, the rays ol the sim are obstructed, and there is 

 not the least danger of burning the leaves. In the open 

 air, the plants are not so easily shaded : the high winds often 

 blow over and break the plants ; and they require more fre- 

 quent watering. This has been the practice of several cul- 

 tivators in Philadelphia ; and unless a suitable place is pro- 

 perly prepared for the plants, we are inclined to think they 

 would suffer less in the house than if exposed in the open 

 air. In the garden, the lateness and coolness of the season 

 had checked the roses, and only now and then a good bloom 

 was to be met with. The camellias were all in good 

 health. 



Nursery and Garden of Wm,. Buist. — The roses in the 

 open border were here the most interesting objects. The win- 

 ters in this latitude are so mild that the larger part of the 

 Tea and other generally termed tender roses live out the year 

 round. It may from this be readily judged how much finer 



