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Yon, Sir, perhaps are aware that many gardeners show 

 a determined opposition to all their fellows who read and 

 write on their profession. I myself have been abused by some 

 for even recommending the perusal of your Encyclopasdia and 

 this Magazine; and let me beg of those brothers who, with 

 their pot logic, are continually stigmatising unlearned but 

 aspiring fellow-workmen, to come forward and manfully state 

 their objections, in a plain and concise manner, in this useful 

 publication, that we may prove to the whole body of brethren 

 that writing and reading are not only calculated to make us 

 better gardeners, but better servants, husbands, fathers, and 

 members of society ; for the more we study the works of our 

 Creator, the more his wisdom will become mahifest. Then 

 let us consider the lilies, how they grow ; and say, 



*' Soft roll your incense, herbs, and fruits, and flowers. 

 In mingled cloud to Him, whose sun exalts, 

 Whose breath perfumes you, and whose pencil paints." 



I remain, Sir, &c. 

 September, 1828. James Housman. 



AiiT. VII. Remarks and Observations made during a Visit to 

 the United States of North America, in 1827-28; "with a 

 List of Plants, 8^c. Abridged from a Communication by 

 Mr. A. Gordon. 



To the British gardener who may dream that the United 

 States present any very alluring prospect of encouragement 

 and happiness, Mr. Gordon holds forth no great hope; in- 

 deed, he wishes to dispel a delusion which he fears has 

 had, or may have, a too extensive influence at home. On 

 this point he must be a pretty competent judge : he has 

 traversed those states, has had access to the first sources for 

 information, and, \rith the eye of a gardener and botanist, has 

 closely examined all that has been done in horticulture, as well 

 as all that the present generation seem inclined to do in that 

 science. Affluence and taste, he observes, must precede the 

 adoption of that style of gardening, where a British gardener 

 could only find himself at home, or find room for the display 

 of his art. " In the United States of America this view of the 

 subject is placed beyond a doubt. In the states of New York 

 and Pennsylvania, and in the vicinity of Boston in the state 

 of Massachusets, gardening is beginning to rear its head. 

 Every one conversant with America is aware that those places 

 have arrived at a considerable degree of refinement, and pre- 



