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a mile square with only a church, a blacksmith's shop, an alehouse, and a 

 few scattered houses. Much like this are many of what they call large 

 nurseries ; in short, a very great portion of the nursery business, from Phi- 

 ladelphia and New York, is done in winter to the southern states ; and, as 

 the river Delaware is generally covered with ice at that season, they have not 

 the same facilities for extending their business, as the nurserymen near New 

 York have. In short, they might as well compare the trade of London 

 with that of Bristol, as compare Prince's nursery with any other nursery 

 in America. 



As to the attack on Mi'. Prince's catalogue, we know it to be very incor- 

 rect, as business transactions to a very great extent have afforded us ample 

 means of ascertaining that point with certainty. We have, moreover, a 

 personal knowledge of the very large extent of his collection, as all his 

 foreign importations arrive at the port, and are entered at our custom- 

 house through one of our firm ; so that his invoices pass through our 

 hands, many of which have contained the most valuable plants known in 

 European and South American collections. Those from France and Bri- 

 tain were of very great amount, and from the first establishments in these 

 kingdoms. We are, &c. — G. Thorhurn ^ Son, Neiv York, Feb. 22. 1828. 



An extract from a letter of Mr. Robert Carr, nurseryman, Philadelphia, 

 disclaiming all participation in the attack of the Philadelphia Nursery- 

 man, we omit, considering that we have already done ample justice to 

 Mr. Prince. An account of all the principal nurseries of America, by 

 Jesse Buel, Esq., of Albany, which shall appear in our next Number, will, 

 we trust, set the matter at rest, and restore all parties to harmonious 

 feeling. — Cond. 



Mr. Hall's Garden in the Illinois. — Dear Sir, I send you an extract of a 

 letter from Mr. Hall of Illinois, United States, which, 1 think, will interest 

 your readers. In your Magazine (Vol. L p. 527.) you gave an account and 

 plan of his garden, to which he alludes. I am, &c. — W. S. Feb. 19. 1828. 



" The description of my garden was by no means intended for publica- 

 tion ; but if that, or any other portion of my correspondence, can be con- 

 sidered as possessing interest sufficient to deserve a place in that very 

 useful work the Gardener's Magazine, I certainly can have no objection 

 to its being published : on the contrary, I must feel gratified that any pro- 

 duction of mine is thought capable of contributing to the promotion of an 

 art which was a source of amusement and delight to me in early youth, 

 and the practice of which I find more in accordance with the feelings and 

 habits of my declining years, than any other employment. — I put my 

 children through the classes and orders in botany last season ; in the 

 next we shall begin the genera and species, and 1 intend they shall make a 

 catalogue of all tlie indigenous plants they can find growing in this vicinity, 

 regularly as they come into flower. If successful in carrying this intention 

 into effect, I will send Mr. Loudon a copy of it, but there is little doubt most 

 of the plants here are in England already ; if not, I shall be very happy to 

 send seeds of such as are v/anted by Mr. Londoner his friends. I remem- 

 bei", myself, seeing some of the most beautiful of our plants in various 

 collections before I left England, and many must have been since added. 

 I read the account of plants growing in the neighbourhood of Con- 

 stantinople (Vol. I. p. 293.) with much pleasure. At Wanbro', lying in 

 lat. 58° 15', we enjoy as much sun as the inhabitants of Asia Minor, mois- 

 ture in plenty, and I should suppose they could hardly boast a better soil. 

 In climate they have an immense advantage ; contiguous to the sea, on the 

 N.W. coast, they escape the severity of the cold of our winters, caused by 

 the north wind coming to us over such a great extent of frozen, unculti- 

 vated surface ; which, though it seldom lasts longer at a time than two or 



