Foreign Notices : — North America. 



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a, Dwelling-house. \ 



&,Labourers'dwelIings,2. 



c, Toolandwork-house,2. 



d, Barn. 



e, Green. houses, 2. 

 /, Hotbeds, 3. g, Plan 



for plants in summer, 2. 



h, Herbaceous plant gar- 

 den, i, Rustic arbour. 



k, French saloon. 



I, Nectarine and peach 

 tree alley. 



m, Pear tree alley. 



n, Apple tree alley. 



o, Plum tree alley. 



1. Vines, 10 squares, 563 kinds. 



2. Rose trees, 2 squares, 250 kinds. 



3. Ornamental trees, 7 squares. 



4. Peach trees, 4 squares, 64 kinds. 



5. Apple trees, 3 squares, 24 kinds. 



6. Plum trees, 2 squares, 85 kinds. , 



7. Pear trees, 4 squares, 190 kinds. 



8. Cherry trees, 2 squares, 71 kinds. 



9. Imported fruit trees, 5 squares. 



10. Young vines, 5 squares. 



11. Quince stocks, 1 square. 



12. Monthly strawberries, 1 square. 



13. Place for manure and weeds. 



14. Jamaica turnpike. 



15. Flatbush turnpike. 



p, Cherry tree alley. 



The other kinds of fruit are: — Nectarines, 15 kinds; apricots, 18 kinds; walnuts, chestnuts, 

 , filberts, and hazel nuts, each 20 kinds ; quinces, 5 kinds ; raspberries, 5 kinds; gooseberries, 

 20 kinds ; currants, 7 kinds ; strawberries, 17 kinds. 



stance we have of all the different departments of gardening being com- 

 bined extensively and with scientific skill. The rapidity with which this 

 garden was formed added to its effect. Nearly twenty-five acres of ground 

 were originally enclosed ; and the inhabitants of the vicinity beheld, with 

 astonishment, in the short space of three years, one of the most stony, 

 rugged, sterile pieces of ground on the whole island, which seemed to bid 

 defiance to the labours of man, stored with the most luxuriant fruit, and 

 blooming with the most beautiful flowers. 



The ground-plan of the garden, although without any remarkable inequa- 

 lities, has yet some diversity of surface. The most elevated part, facing the 

 south and south-west, is appropriated for the purpose of a vineyard ; and 

 several valuable varieties of the grape, foreign as well as indigenous, are 

 there cultivated. The beds of the ornamental part compose broad belts 

 laid out in a serpentine direction, and edged with thrift (6'tatice Armeria). 

 These sections contain a mixture of plants and shrubs of both the Old and 

 the New World. The several species of Robinz'o, the Philadelphia grandi- 

 florus, the Halesk, the Ptelese, and many others conspicuous for their 

 beauty, are interspersed and contrasted with the delicate Pamarix of 

 Europe; the paper mulberry, now bearing its curious fruit; several species 

 of shrubby willows and poplars ; the splendid Jnchusa capensis, with its 

 azure blossoms ; the no less luxuriant Palsamina ; and thousands of others 



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