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from the office of President; but whether under his direction, 

 or that of any other gentleman, it will, we hope, continue to 

 exert the same beneficial influence in horticultural improve- 

 ment. 



Exotic JVurscry of R. Buist. — Our memoranda of Mr. 

 Buist's nursery, made in the fall of 1838, were so meagre, 

 that we shall, in our present notice of his grounds, make our 

 comparisons so far as improvements and additions are con- 

 cerned, with their appearance in 1837, when we gave a de- 

 tailed account of all we saw, (Vol. III., p. 202.) It may 

 readily be imagined, from these remarks, that great changes must 

 have taken place during so long a period as four years. Mr. 

 Buist's being the most extensive exotic nursery in the city, 

 the additions which have been made, particularly in the collec- 

 tion of plants, are altogether too numerous to detail here; but 

 we shall endeavor to note down some of those which will be 

 most interesting to a majority of our readers. 



In 1837, Mr Buist's whole extent of glass consisted only 

 of a range about two hundred feet long, a small hot-house, 

 and a camellia-house, on his grounds near Lombard street. 

 Soon after that period, he occupied a piece of land of about 

 an acre in extent, nearly half a mile distant. On this place 

 he has since built a number of pits and frames for the growth 

 of various plants, to the extent of several hundred feet, and 

 a span-roofed house, with a partition through the centre, above 

 a hundred feet long. 



The green-house plants were so grouped together in various 

 places in the open garden, and so few, of course, in flower 

 at this season, that we found less worthy to note than at a 

 later period of the year. But commencing with the princi- 

 pal range of houses, and from thence into the open garden, we 

 shall note such plants as appeared worthy of that distinction. 



In the green-house, the first objects which struck us were 

 the Cacti, of which Mr. Buist possesses a rich collection, 

 several of them new and rare, together with a variety of seed- 

 lings of various ages from one to three years. So numerous 

 were the species, and many of them unnamed, that we found 

 it impossible to particularize them. In 1837, when visiting 

 the gardens in the city, we found the beautiful Echinoc actus 

 Eyriesii very scarce; but now, it was nearly as abundant as 

 the older sorts. It is naturally shy in throwing of its offsets, 

 but by cutting off the top, as mentioned by us in a translation 



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