12 Ji Retrospective View of the 



able to learn, it is not very flourishing. Mr. Thorburn has 

 been unfortunate in having his extensive collection of camel- 

 lias destroyed by fire, and he is now absent in England, for the 

 purpose of replacing in part, his stock. He had made many 

 alterations and improvements in his green-house, &c. Our 

 correspondent, Mr. Dunlap, has established a nursery at Har- 

 lem. At Rochester, Messrs. Elhvanger & Barry have made 

 large improvements; the past fall they have erected, in their 

 nursery ground, a green-house sixty-four feet long and eighteen 

 feet wide; and a hot-house forty-six feet long and fifteen feet 

 wide, and have added a large number of plants to their col- 

 lection, which is now very good. They have seven acres 

 under nursery cultivation. The location is a beautiful one, 

 near the Cemetery, about a mile from the city. 



Commercial gardening has continued more prosperous in 

 Philadelphia, than in New York or Boston, if we may judge 

 from the fact that several individuals have entered into the busi- 

 ness, and those already established have increased their facili- 

 ties for supplying plants. Mr. A. Ritchie has erected a range 

 of houses, one hundred and twenty feet long, at Kensington; 

 and Mr. Francis Bell, formerly with Mr. Buist, has built a 

 green-house in Twelfth street. Three or four extensive 

 grape-houses have also been erected, for the cultivation of 

 grapes for the market. The old Bartram Botanic Garden, so 

 long celebrated for its fine collection of plants, has lately been 

 improved; Col. Carr, the proprietor, having associated with 

 him Messrs. McAvoy & Gale. 



From Washington we have no other information than may 

 be learnt from the report of the horticultural exhibition in the 

 December number of our last volume. 



Cemeteries. 



No better evidence is needed to show the interest that the 

 public take in rural improvement, than the establishment of 

 cemeteries in various parts of the country. Boston, New \ ork, 

 Philadelphia, and Baltimore, each have large and beautiful spots 

 laid out as cemeteries, and many large towns have also select- 

 ed such desirable places of burial. Our remarks, last year, 

 included a notice of the Greenwood Cemetery of New York, 

 and those at Salem, Mass., and Rochester, N. Y.: since then, 

 others have been laid out, and opened for burial. In our re- 

 marks upon gardening in Worcester, (Vol. VI., p. 407,) we 



