366 JVo/es made during a Visit to 



were not in flower, a mere enumeration of their names would 

 not afford much interest. Had time permitted, we should 

 have visited the nursery at Yorkville. 



Brooklyn, Aug. \2lh. — The Horticultural Society which 

 was formed here two or three years ago, under favorable aus- 

 pices, has, as we have before stated, been given up: it was 

 found impossible to keep up an interest among cultivators: a 

 few were willing to devote their time to it, but it was found 

 that the duty, witbout the co-operation of all, was too labor- 

 ious. It is a source of regret that a city abounding with so 

 many fine gardens, could not find amateurs enough to give a 

 start to the Society. There is material enough at hand to 

 render the exhibitions highly interesting to all lovers of flow- 

 ers; and we trust one more attempt will be made to establish 

 a Society. 



Residence ofM. J. Becar, Esq. — Great improvements were 

 going on at this place. The beautiful conservatory had been 

 taken down, and the garden arrangements entirely altered. 



The conservatory formerly fronted the south, and was 

 placed against a high bank to the right of the house. That 

 part of the garden is now to be laid down to grass, and in 

 the course of a year or two, it will probably be covered with 

 a block of buildings. The conservatory, which is now build- 

 ing, and on a more extensive scale, is immediately in front of 

 the garden entrance from the house, a straight walk leading to 

 it. It will be fifty feet long, about twenty-three wide, and 

 nine or ten feet high in front, with a span roof, as formerly, 

 and erected in the same superior style of architecture, with 

 the Ionic finish. At each end of the conservatory are two low 

 houses, also span roof, but with no side-sashes, twenty-five 

 feet each, intended for a stove and a geranium house. The 

 manner in which they are to be completed will render them 

 most excellent structures, perfectly adapted to the objects 

 intended. 



Every thing was in such confusion that we merely looked 

 at the camellias, which are the main objects of beauty here. 

 We never saw any in better health, or trained in better shape. 

 A few large plants of the old white, Hume's blush, and vari- 

 egata, were perfect pyramids of foliage, the leaves of the 

 deepest and glossiest green. INIr. Becar is a most careful 

 cultivator, and acts upon the principle which all amateurs 

 should, viz., that what is worth cultivating at all, is worth 



