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Pine in hills. His success was very great. He informed 

 us that nothing could exceed the product of the plants ; the 

 trusses were so numerous that they spread out in every direc- 

 tion, forming a circle of fruit around each hill fifteen or 

 twenty inches in diameter, and literally covering the ground; 

 the berries piled one upon another. We thought we had 

 produced good crops ourselves, but this was something more 

 than we had accomplished. 



The vineries were producing tolerable crops, and the 

 houses were all in good order, and the garden neat, clean 

 and orderly in every part. 



Residence of the Hon. J. S. Cabot. — Mr. Cabot not being 

 at home, we could not see all the plants of interest which 

 make up his admirable collection. He has spared no pains 

 to procure all the new and fine herbaceous flowering plants, 

 and we presume no other collection equals his in this de- 

 partment. The new phloxes were many of them just com- 

 ing into bloom. 



The fruit trees were bearing a fine crop of very promising 

 looking fruit, but as the newer sorts, of which Mr. Cabot 

 has a great quantity, are planted on a piece of land out of 

 the city, which we had not time to visit, we cannot now 

 give any account of them. The garden was in the very 

 best order. 



Residence of J. D. Bates, Esq., Phillips^ s Beach, July 

 31. — No one can be insensible to the great improvements 

 which have been made in the seaside residences which have 

 so rapidly sprung up near Boston within the last few years. 

 The story has been so often repeated, that it has become a 

 settled fact with some, that nothing will grow on the exposed 

 and windy places along the shores of the harbor and bay. 

 Even at Nahant, once covered with trees, beautiful cottages 

 have long stood and still stand, without a tree or shrub near 

 them, exposed to the glaring sun, and, but for the cooling 

 breezes from the ocean, wholly insupportable as summer 

 residences to any one who is not willing to forego every 

 thing simply for the sea air. But Mr. Tudor commenced 

 the work, ridiculed though he was ; and now that it is found 



