420 Ao/es made during a Visit to 



plants; and be certainly deserves great credit for his endeavors 

 to introduce the newest and rarest species and varieties. In 

 our last account of Mr. Buist's garden, he thought we did 

 him injustice in some remarks which we then made in relation 

 to his collection of camellias: it was not our intention to have 

 done so; for however excellent other collections mis^ht have 

 been, his was sufficiently extensive to have the merit of hav- 

 ing been one of the best. 



The green-house and hot-house plants generally, and the 

 camellias in particular, appear to be grown better now than 

 they were in 1837. Every thing looked uncommonly strong 

 and vigorous, and seemed to have Lad good attention and care. 

 3Ir. Buist's foreman is a very excellent cultivator. 



Residence oj James Dundas, Esq. — At the corner of Broad 

 and Walnut streets, we visited the garden of Mr. Dundas. 

 It is of recent formation, and occupies, with the dwelling- 

 house, a piece of ground about two hundred feet square. The 

 dwelling-house and green-house were erected last year, and the 

 garden laid out the past spring, under the direction of Mr. 

 Hutchinson, the gardener. The house fronts on Walnut street, 

 with a small conservatory attached in the rear, and entered from 

 one of the parlors. The house is built in the Grecian style, and 

 the conservatory finished in good keeping with the architecture 

 of the house, with pilasters, and a deep and ornamented entab- 

 lature: it is about twenty feet in length, with a semicircular 

 end, so that when the folding-doors are thrown open between 

 that and the parlor, the whole appears as an oblong oval room, 

 the end of the parlor being also semicircular: the doors which 

 open into the hall and front room at the corners are set with 

 looking-glass plates, and reflect the whole of the interior of 

 the conservatory. In the evening, when the parlor is lighted 

 up, this must have a most brilliant effect. The conservatory 

 as well as the drawing-room, opens into a piazza. 



The garden is laid out with a large circular grass plat in the 

 centre, about a hundred feet in diaineter, and back of this, 

 against the wall in the rear, is the green-house, a handsome 

 building, about thirty feet long and sixteen wide, correspond- 

 ing in its architecture with the house. Besides this, there is a 

 large pit, with a flue, appropriated to the growth of vegetables 

 and plants. Descending by the steps from the piazza, the walk 

 leads to the left, around the grass plat, by the green-house, and 

 thence to the opposite side of the garden, and continues to the 



