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Page has been, during his extensive practice as a landscape- 

 gardener and planter, introducing such trees wherever he 

 could : but this exhibition will greatly increase his facilities of 

 so doing. We know of nothing more commendable in a nur- 

 seryman, either for the good of his profession, or the benefit of 

 his employers and the ornament of his country, than the prac- 

 tice of planting out single specimens, and forming arboretums. 

 We found the whole of this nursery in most excellent order ; 

 and a number of things worth noticing if we had time and room. 

 Among these, we cannot avoid mentioning a span-roofed pit, 

 placed east and west, with boarded shutters on one side, and 

 glazed sashes on the other ; which sashes and shutters can be 

 changed at pleasure, so as to admit the sun in winter, and afford 

 shade in summer. The sashes are kept from being blown off 

 by the violent winds common to Southampton, by iron buttons, 

 which turn on iron screws, one of which is inserted about the 

 centre of every rafter. Buttons fixed in the common way for 

 the same purpose are apt, in time, to get loose ; but, when this 

 is the case with these, it is only necessary to give them an 

 additional turn to render them as tight as can be required. 

 Mr. Page possesses an extensive meadow, composed wholly of 

 peat earth; so that his facilities for growing American plants 

 are unbounded. In this nursery, and also in that of Mr. 

 Rogers, the ^sclepias tuberosa thrives and blooms with extra- 

 ordinary vigour ; and, when once established, is as difficult to 

 root out of the soil as potatoes or horseradish ; so that there 

 appears to be something in the climate of Southampton pecu- 

 liarly suitable to this plant. 



Rogers's Nursery. — August 24. This nursery is three miles 

 from Southampton, on the London road, and contains nearly 

 100 acres of land, newly broken up from an unenclosed heathy 

 waste. It is the commencement of a nursery which, if pros- 

 perity attend Mr. Rogers's endeavours, will one day be a place 

 of note. The highest part of the grounds is 175 ft. above the 

 level of the water at Southampton ; and the ascent from the 

 town to this point, along a line nearly straight, is so gradual as 

 to be scarcely perceptible. Mr. Rogers has built a picturesque 

 cottage, on a raised platform, commodious, convenient, sub- 

 stantially finished, and in good taste. Sheds, pits, frames, and 

 other nursery buildings are in progress. The nursery extends 

 one whole mile along the public road ; and, parallel to this 

 road, and of the same length, Mr. Rogers has formed a walk, 

 along both sides of which he proposes to plant an arboretum 

 like that of Mr. Donald ; or, perhaps, rather like that in the 

 university garden at Vienna, where there are but two rows 

 of trees on each side of the road. Along the road side, Mr. 

 Rogers is preparing to plant a mixed hedge of double furze, 



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