Horticultural Register. 531 



2. The Horticultural Register and Gardeners Magazine. Conducted 

 by T. G. Fessenden and J. E. Teschemacher. Boston, U. S., 

 1835. In Monthly 8vo Numbers. No. III., for March. 



We have here two American gai'dening magazines, both very 

 well got up, and containing engravings of flowering plants. 

 Unfortunately, the first numbers of both works have not reached 

 us ; and we regret this, because it is generally in the first number 

 of a periodical that the editor states its plan, and the subjects it 

 is intended to embrace. Both magazines contain several very in- 

 teresting original articles, and many valuable and well-selected ex- 

 tracts, copied, with acknowledgment, from our Magazine and other 

 European works. We must not, however, omit to mention, 

 that, in the American Gardener's Magazine, p. 44., there is an 

 article, " On the Progress of Gardening in America," copied 

 without acknowledgment, and with only the substitution of the 

 words " America" for "Europe," and "American" for " Eu- 

 ropean," by Grant Thorburn, Esq., the well known and much 

 respected nurseryman of New York, from our EncyclopcBdia of 

 Gardening, 2d edition, § 7710. to § 7722. We feel flattered that 

 our friend Thorburn should have thought this passage, long 

 ago written by ourselves, so worthy of a reprint ; but we are only 

 sorry that he forgot to mention where he had taken it from, and 

 that he has thus led the conductors of the American Gardener's 

 Magazine into the error of supposing it an original commu- 

 nication, as appears from the note they have appended to it in 

 p. 45. 



Both magazines are constructed on the plan of ours ; par- 

 ticularly the America?! Gardener's Magazine, which is a very 

 close imitation. There is in it an article giving the prices in 

 Quincy Market, as vi^e give those in Covent Garden ; another 

 on the Massachu sett's Horticultural Society, resembling ours on 

 the London Horticultural Society ; and there are General No- 

 tices, Foreign Notices, Domestic Notices, Queries, and Cri- 

 ticisms; and, what has pleased us very much in both magazines, 

 " Calls at Gardens and Nurseri-es," in which we are very glad 

 to see that the botanic names are accented. We know so little 

 of the state of gardening in America, and we believe so little is 

 generally known on the subject in this country, that we shall 

 make copious extracts from this article, as we think it will be 

 generally interesting to our readers. We shall begin with a 

 notice, from the Horticultural Register, of Brooklyn, the seat of 

 Colonel T. H. Perkins. In these grounds the hemlock spruce 

 appears to be in great perfection, and also a fir, which the 

 writer calls " the silver fir (^bies balsamifera)." This must be 

 a mistake; and we are left in doubt whether the tree in question 

 is ^^bies balsamifera (the Balm of Gilead fir), or ^'bies Picea 



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