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able feature in this nursery, and that which renders it su- 

 perior to most of its class, is the advantage of possessing large 

 specimens of all the rare American trees and shrubs ; which 

 are not only highly ornamental, but likewise very valuable, 

 from the great quantities of seed they afford for exportation 

 to London, Paris, Petersburgh, Calcutta, and several other 

 parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa. This garden is the regular 

 resort of the learned and scientific gentlemen of Philadelphia. 

 A committee of the Horticultural Society closes an account 

 of this nursery as follows: — "Mr. Carr, who deserves so 

 much credit for the classification of his nursery, is no less 

 entitled to praise for the admirable order in which his tool- 

 house is kept ; a place that, in most gardens, instead of pos- 

 sessing regularity, is made a mere lumber room. The best 

 Order is likewise preserved in the seed room, in putting up 

 our native seeds. That apartment, moreover, contains a 

 library of 400 volumes, in which are all the late works on 

 botany and horticulture." 



The next nursery, in extent and variety, is kept by Messrs. 

 Landreth. Here are a good stock of green-house plants, 

 orange and lemon trees loaded with fruit, and a remarkably 

 fine Champney's rose. A good deal of the business of this 

 nursery consists in growing vegetables for seed. They keep 

 a seed-store in the city. 



A Mr. Hibbert keeps a small nursery, in which he grows 

 roses and other plants in pots, which he sells chiefly in the 

 city market. I understand Mr. Hibbert has taken a piece 

 of ground formerly occupied as a nursery by Mr. M'Mahon, 

 and has taken into partnership Mr. Buist *, a gardener in the 

 neighbourhood. 



There is another class of gardens, very distinct from any I 

 have seen before : those of plant-growers, who, to a small nur- 

 sery, and green and hot houses, add the appendage of a tavern. 

 The two principal ones of this description are kept by Mr. 

 Arran and M. d' Arras : the first has a very good museum 

 in his garden ; and the latter possesses a beautiful collection of 

 orange and lemon trees, very large, but trimmed after the 

 French fashion. These places are the resort of many of the 

 citizens; Philadelphia having no parks, or national gardens, 

 for the purpose of recreation. 



There are many small places in the environs of the city 

 hardly worth noticing at present. 



* Mr. Buist has recently visited England and Scotland, for, I think he 

 said, the first time since he emigrated from Scotland, 14 or 15 years ago. 

 He called at Bayswater in June, 1831, and evinced himself a man of much 

 intelligence and professional ability. — J. D. 



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