412 JsTotes made during a Visit to 



Art. II. J^otes made during a Visit to JVew York, Philadel- 

 phia, Baltimore and Washington, and intermediate places^ 

 from Aug. Sth to the2od, 1841. By the Editor. 



[Continued from p. 374.] 



Burlington, JV. J., August 13. — Two years since, we 

 passed a few hours at Burlington, and visited several fine 

 gardens, some account of which we gave at that time, (Vol. 

 v., p. 363.) During our present tour, from want of time, 

 we only made a hasty visit to the nursery of our corres- 

 pondent, Mr. T. Hancock, and the flower-garden of Mr. 

 McKee. 



The Burlington Lyceum, which has estahlished annual ex- 

 hihitions the last three years, has had a tendency to spread 

 and improve the taste for gardening, in and around the city. 

 The several exhibitions have been well got up, particularly 

 that of the present fall; and the great vai-iety of fruits and 

 flowers exhibited, and the excellence which they displayed, 

 reflects much credit upon the skill of the amateurs and gar- 

 deners in Burlington. While the large societies in the cities 

 of New York and Baltimore have been sufiered to decline, 

 for want of zeal among their members, it is gratifying to find, 

 in such small cities as Burlington, a suflicient number of en- 

 thusiastic cultivators, who are determined that no efibrts of 

 theirs shall be spared to keep up the taste, when the commun- 

 ity have once become awakened to the importance of the 

 subject. 



JWrsery of Mr. T. Hancock. — After the very full de- 

 scription which we gave of Mr. Hancock's nursery and 

 grounds, in the volume above referred to, we shall not, at 

 the present time, extend our remarks only to those additions 

 and improvements which have been made since 1839. 



The principal improvement, since our previous visit, has 

 been the erection of a large and substantial green-house, up- 

 wards of eighty feet long, sixteen wide, and fifteen feet high; 

 the back and front walls and ends are built of brick. The 

 house is divided by a partition, one part being used as a hot- 

 house. It is heated by two brick flues, which run along the 

 front, and around and out at the back wall. There is a shelf 



