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well adapted for a garden, and particularly for the growth of 

 trees. The proximity of the place to the Haerlein rail-road 

 affords excellent facilities for the easy and rapid carriage of 

 packages to the city, bringing the distance to within less than 

 half an hour's ride. The value of land in the immediate 

 suburbs of the city is so great that the nurseryman is com- 

 pelled to seek a situation a few miles out. Both Messrs. 

 Hogg's and Floy's nurseries were, a k\N years since, located 

 in Broadway: the former is not yet wholly removed, but it is 

 expected a street will be cut directly through it soon, which 

 will destroy it. Mr. Floy removed to Haerlem four or five 

 years ago. 



The principal object of notice upon Mr. Dunlap's place 

 is the green-house, which is built on a somewhat novel plan. 

 It is a span-roofed house, composed of glass, with the excep- 

 tion of a flat blank roof in the centre, about four feet wide, 

 against the sides of which the glass abuts. The house is seventy- 

 five feet long and twenty-five feet wide, and cost about twelve 

 hundred dollars. The walls are built of brick, with a cavity 

 between the outer and inner wall, for the circulation of air, 

 and to act as a non-conductor. By this means, the cold is 

 more effectually excluded, as bricks are a ready conductor of 

 either heat or cold; and where back walls to houses are built 

 of brick, we should always advise this. Mr. Dunlap's green- 

 house has no side-sashes. The novelty of the plan, however, 

 is the stage, which is quite different from any thing we have 

 ever seen. Wishing not to lose any heat, and having always 

 observed the great quantity of waste room in a green-house, 

 particularly under the stages, he thought of the expediency of 

 building the latter of brick, and making the whole work solid. 

 The experiment was tried, and so far it has proved a great 

 economizer of fuel. The bricks are laid in Roman cement, 

 and the work being well done, the stages are as smooth and 

 level as if made of plank or boards, in the usual manner: 

 there is consequently no lost room to be heated, and all that 

 is given out by the flue is radiated throughout the house. So 

 far as economy of fuel is the object, and for the purposes of 

 the nurseryman, Mr. Dunlap's plan is a very good one; but 

 where neatness and lightness of the interior is a consideration, 

 we should not advise a departure from the old mode. The 

 house is warmed wholly with brick flues, running each side of 

 the house, the stage being in the middle, between the walks. 



