634 Vie*w of the Progress of Gardening, 



tish merchants settled in China introduce occasionally some ot 

 the finer plants from England into the gardens of the principal 

 sea ports, as appears by the communication of Mr. Reeves, 

 (p. 437.) Mr. Reeves has introduced into England some of 

 our finest Chinese camellias, azaleas, and chrysanthemums, be- 

 sides various other species. 



In the United States of North America gardening, especially 

 horticulture and floriculture, is making rapid progress. There 

 are several horticultural societies, and there are two gardener's 

 magazines, besides several journals devoted to agriculture and 

 gardening. In the magazines there are several gardens de- 

 scribed, belonging to wealthy merchants in the neighbourhood of 

 Philadelphia ; and these appear not only to contain good collec- 

 tions, but to be kept in high order. The gardening commerce 

 between this country and the United States has lately increased 

 in an extraordinary degree, and, in all probability, will continue 

 to do so ; because, for many years, trees will be raised, whether 

 from seeds, cuttings, layers, or grafts, cheaper in England than 

 in America. This will be the case, not only on account of the 

 greater cheapness of labour in this country than in America, but 

 from the greater moisture of our climate. As soon as a port is 

 established on the west coast of Ireland, our brethren in that 

 quarter will supply the western world with trees, which will 

 arrive by the steam-boats at New York, in not much longer 

 time than packages from the Aberdeen nurserymen used to be 

 on the sea between that port and London. The Americans, on 

 their part, will probably long continue to supply Europe with 

 the seeds of their native trees ; for many of these, which will 

 grow, and attain a considerable size, in the British Islands, and 

 in similar climates on the Continent, will probably never ripen 

 their seeds in any quantity in Europe, because our summers 

 are not sufficiently warm and light to admit of their thoroughly 

 ripening their wood. The attention of the Americans has not 

 yet been much directed to public gardens ; but it will be so 

 when their towns become more wealthy ; and we anticipate, 

 among the citizens of the western world, municipal gardens, 

 parks, pleasure-grounds, and hot-houses, the common property 

 of the towns, which will rival those of the European aristocracy. 

 Agriculture and rural architecture are also making progress in 

 the United States, though that progress must necessarily be 

 comparatively slow, till the population is either greatly in- 

 creased, or comparatively concentrated. 



Many hundreds of emigrants, chiefly agriculturists, have gone 

 to the United States within the last three or four years ; and also 

 a good many gardeners, and some British architects. The state 

 of architecture in New York and its neighbourhood will be 

 found given, from personal observation, by Mr. Wilds and Mr. 



