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sent a faithful miniature of the noble institutions which so 

 highly distinguish the mother country; but, as you penetrate 

 into the interior, refinement gradually diminishes, until you 

 find yourself among those, so far as respects gardening, who 

 not only do not appreciate its pleasures, but are in actual 

 ignorance of many of our most common vegetables." 



Among the patrons of gardening the names of Hosack, 

 De Witt, Clinton, and a few others, stand conspicuous ; and 

 the establishments of Messrs. Floy, Hogg, Smith and Co., 

 Wilson, &c.. New York; that of Prince at Flushing, Long 

 Island ; Parmentier, Brooklyn ; also, on Long Island, D. and 

 C. Landreth ; Carr, at Philadelphia ; and a rising establish- 

 ment of Messrs. Buel and Wilson near Albany ; all bear tes- 

 timony to the patronage the art has received, and is still 

 receiving. But gardening will be retarded in its progress so 

 long as those who can encourage it think that any man who 

 can dig and crop a piece of ground is gardener enough for 

 every other purpose. The general government is favourable 

 to the introduction of foreign plants, which may succeed and 

 be useful ; and the foreign consuls are charged to collect 

 seeds, &c., to send home, at the government expense. 



" I passed, in my journey of 1200 miles, through the 

 southern states of South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama, 

 and was struck with the change from civilisation to wild rus- 

 ticity. In those uncultivated regions, however, there was here 

 and there a spot which arrested attention. In the vicinity of 

 Charlestown, South Carolina, M. Noisette, brother to the 

 nurseryman at Paris, has rather an extensive establishment, 

 chiefly in the culinary line. In the city of Savannah, the gar- 

 den of Thomas Young, Esq. (Vol. III. p. 212.), assuredly 

 claims superiority over every other in the south. The plan 

 of the garden does great credit to Mr. Wilson of Albany. 

 Here, on the 4th of January, the Magnolm conspicua was 

 in flower ; the Xaurus Camphora^ Gardens florida, and the 

 Citrus tribe were all flourishing in the open air. Here are 

 several houses also, well filled with exotics, and a new one 

 intended entirely for the Cactus tribe. The highly respect- 

 able proprietor is a reader of the Gardener's Magazine, and 

 is not more esteemed as a botanical collector than for his 

 amenity as a gentleman. In Augusta, 124 miles from Savan- 

 nah, Dr. Wray has a little spot, but a most interesting one to 

 a botanist; it contains a small hot-house, and most numerous 

 collection of bulbs, native herbaceous plants, and succulents. 

 He approves highly of the Gardener's Magazine, and seems 

 inclined to contribute something to its pages on the subject of 

 American plants. — — Fox, Esq. has a good garden, about 



