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city, were remarkably strong and healthy : two specimens of 

 Ephiphylliim truncatum being nearly six feet high, grafted 

 on tall stems of the Cereus triangularis. Mr. Chalmers has 

 raised a very fine seedHng called C. Pepper?', which has 

 been noticed by our Philadelphia correspondent (Vol. VIII. 

 p. 293.) Some beautiful new Echinocactuses, from Texas, 

 have been added to the collection, which promise to be very 

 desirable sorts. 



Mr. Chalmers deserves great credit for the skill which he 

 evinces in the cultivation of the collection of plants under 

 his care. Having no place for their protection during sum- 

 mer, and confined in a small spot surrounded with high 

 brick walls, it would seem almost impossible to prevent the 

 plants from being greatly injured by heat and insects, espe- 

 cially the latter ; yet we found the collection as free from the 

 red spider, scale, and other such pests of the cultivator of 

 plants, as any we had ever seen. Continued attention and 

 diligence, together with neatness in every department, have 

 been the means by which he has brought the plants, under 

 his care, to a high state of cultivation. 



Newbiirgli, N. Y., Oct. 24. — Returning by the way of 

 Albany and the Western Rail-road, we tarried on our tour 

 up the Hudson River, atNewburgh, in order to pay a pass- 

 ing visit to our correspondent Mr. Downing, whose nurseries 

 and grounds we have given a full account of incur Vol. for 

 1842, (VII. p. 401.) 



Highland Horticultural Nurseries. A. J. Downing 4" Co. 

 — The lateness of the season, and the return of cool frosty 

 nights, had now destroyed the greatest beauty of the gar- 

 den. On the lawn in front of the house the beds of petu- 

 nias, roses, and other showy flowers, had been touched 

 with the frost, and a fading bloom was all that now greeted 

 the eye. The dahlias were blackened by the same rude 

 touch, and where all was brilliancy but a few days previ- 

 ous, a flowerless scene was now presented. 



In walking through the grounds we noted down the fol- 

 lowing as most desirable shrubs, trees and plants : — Firbur- 

 num sp., Fothergilla alnifolia, Hydrangea </uercif61ia, Peri- 

 ploca grge^ca, a very excellent climbing plant, with rather 

 singular flowers ; two fine species of the ylristolochia, both 

 desirable plants for training over an arbor or trellis; their 

 broad and ample foliage and curious flowers having an in- 

 teresting appearance all the season. 



