122 Remarks on Horticulture in jYeic Jersey; 



I feel quite confident that you would bear most willing testi- 

 mony to its truth. 



Many of the richest contributions to the annual exhibitions 

 of the Horticuliural Society of Pennsylvania are sent from 

 New Jersey. In addition to this, we have exhibitions of our 

 own, which, although not quite so extensive as those in Phil- 

 adelphia, yet evince perhaps quite as much zeal and taste. 

 One of the choicest and most select nurseiies in the country, 

 is that of Mr. Reeves, in the county of Salem, who has also 

 been very successful as a grower of the dahlia. There are 

 also some fine nurseries in the county of Middlesex. In the 

 city of Newark, there are some excellent gardens, well stock- 

 ed with fruit trees of a superior kind; and several green- 

 houses, with very respectable collections of plants. Mr. 

 Norris has, within the last year, erected a new and beautiful 

 house, which is heated both by flues and hot water pipes: his 

 old house he designs for a grapery. There are, I suspect, 

 more green-houses in the city of Burlington, than in any other 

 town of the same size in the United States. 



But I am wandering from the purpose which I had in ad- 

 dressing you. My object in writing was to notice more par- 

 ticularly a few collections of plants which are to be found in 

 Princeton. 



One of the neatest and most tasteful houses of the kind 

 which I have ever seen, is one which has been erected within 

 the past year for Mr. T. A. Stockton. It was built by Mr. 

 Buist, of Philadelphia, a brother of the distinguished florist, 

 a young architect of much promise. It is an octagon build- 

 ing, forty feet long and twenty-four wide, with a span roof. 

 On the north side is the green-house, and on the south the 

 hot-house, separated from each other by a glass partition. 

 Mr. Stockton's stock of plants is at present small, but he 

 proposes making large additions to it, and, with his wealth and 

 taste, it will no doubt soon be a rich and choice collection. 



Mr. I. R. Thompson's green-house is not large, but is 

 beautifully arranged, communicating as it does with his library. 

 His plants are well selected, and are in admirable condition. 

 Among the rest are some noble camellias, which have been 

 blooming for some time very freely, such as speciosa, Lan- 

 drethi, fimbriata, double white, rubricaulis, &c. Mr. Thomp- 

 son's place, altogether, is one of the finest in the State. The 

 grounds about his house are laid out with great taste, and are 



