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infer, from our giving a description of ^Nfr. C. Downing'? 

 place separately, that his nursery had no connection with iiis 

 brother's. 



The grounds around ^Ir. A. J. Downing's house, are, as we 

 have before remarked, in three lots of about four acres each: 

 one piece laying below the square occupied by the house, and 

 (lie other to the right of that, separated only by the street 

 running to the river. 



The ground in the rear of the house is filled with a great 

 variety of ornamental trees: there is here, however, a row of 

 pear trees of considerable size, which serve as specimen trees, 

 each being grafted with several different varieties, in order to 

 test their nierits and their correctness. The fruit, this year, 

 owing to the late frosts of 31ay, was a scanty crop, and we 

 found nothing new to note down, except that the pear describ- 

 eJ by Mr. Downing (Vol. IIL, p. 53,) as the Mabille, has 

 proved to be the Beurre Diel. A raspberry, which is called 

 the new red Antwerp, is sold from this nursery, and is larger 

 and better than the old Antwerp; all that is known of its his- 

 tory is, that it was taken from a garden near Newburgh, where 

 It was found growing and bearing in great perfection. We 

 noticed a fiiie stock of the Euonynms americanus and atropur- 

 piirea, Chimonanthus montana, O'rnus europae^us, ..D'sculus 

 pavia and glabra, cut-leaved alder, the willow oak, and the 

 Exmouth eJni. ^inona triloba is hardy here. The frizzled 

 filbert was bearing a prolific crop of fruit, and it is a val- 

 uable variety, well worthy the attention of all cultivators: 

 Mr. Downing's article on the filbert, (p. 57,) will give 

 all the information which may be wanted to grow the plants 

 successfully. The Cornelian cherry, (Cornus mascula,) and 

 the double sloe, are both fine showy shrubs, bearing an 

 abundance of their ornamental fruit. The whole of this 

 piece of ground is hedged with the English thorn. 



We now pass into the lot below, which is mostly filled with 

 fruit trees, particularly with several long rows of fine pears, 

 plums, apricots, cherries, &,c. Budding was going on v.iih 

 the cherry, plum, and peach trees. Here too, we saw a very 

 extensive stock of fine tulip trees, (Liriodendron Tulipifera,) 

 and magnolias: numerous specimens of the M. conspicua 

 grafted on the M. tripetala had made growths of three feet 

 each since last spring. Why is it that the Magnolia tripet- 

 ala, and M. acuminata and the tulip tree are so rarely seen 



