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commenced in 1834, by Reynolds St Batebam, is now owned 

 by Messrs. Ellwanger & Barry, wbo have removed it a little 

 out of the city, near Mount Hope Cemetery, where they 

 have purchased a fine piece of ground, and erected a good 

 green-house and hot-house, which are already well stocked 

 with plants. Mr. Ellwanger has imported some fine plants, 

 mostly Cactae and camellias, from his native country, Germany. 

 They are making arrangements for planting an extensive nur- 

 sery, and if industry and skill will insure success, these young 

 men will surely succeed. 



The nursery of Mr. Asa Rowe, six miles from Roches- 

 ter, is the oldest and most extensive in this vicinity. Mr. 

 Rowe has a large green-house, and a good collection of com- 

 mon plants, but, owing to the small demand for rare plants, 

 he has not added many to his assortment, of late. His atten- 

 tion is mainly bestowed on the growing of fruit trees, of which 

 his sales have been extensive. 



Mr. William King has erected a small green-house in the 

 city, the past summer, and made a good beginning, all things 

 considered. 



Rochester cannot yet boast of one private green-house, 

 although many families cultivate plants in their parlors. Mr. 

 J. O. Smith, a gentleman of wealth and taste, is now erect- 

 ing a fine dwelling-house, and intends building a conservatory 

 next year; when that is done, others will doubtless follow his 

 example. 



Blount Hope Cemetery deserves, at least, a passing notice. 

 Many improvements have been made there the past year, and 

 in summer it is a place of great beauty; but now, it is deso- 

 late and gloomy, and so it will ever be, during more than half 

 of the year, unless our citizens take example from your own 

 Mount Auburn, and intersperse it liberally with evergreens, a 

 kind of ornament of which we are. sadly deficient. 



At Buffalo, there is no perceptible improvement. H. Pratt, 

 Esq., the great patron of horticulture, died last spring, and the 

 improvements which he had projected and commenced, have 

 been discontinued and neglected. His stately mansion is unfin- 

 ished and unoccupied — and the garden, and fine range of horti- 

 cultural buildings, give evidence of the loss of that master 

 spirit, of whose taste and liberality they are now the sad monu- 

 ments. 



The nursery establishments of Messrs. B. Hodge, .Tr., and 

 A. Bryant, appear in a thriving condition. They both have 



