Bowing* s Report on Egypt, S-iS 



A public garden for promenade has been commenced within a year in 

 Boston, by a company of individuals, and a collection of plants purchased, 

 green-house built, &c., which we hope may set an example worthy of frequent 

 imitation in the other cities. 



In relation to Floriculture, it is difficult to give an idea of the exact state of 

 our gardens ; for, while you will find 1000 gardens in which the rarest 

 China and hardy roses, or the latest and most recherche dahlias, are blooming 

 in the greatest beauty and perfection, in the neighbourhood of fine camellias, 

 paeonias, hyacinths, tulips, &c., there is scarcely such a thing as a respectable 

 collection of carnations, auriculas, pansies, or anemones in the whole country. 

 This has arisen, however, in a great measure, from the fact that these latter 

 florist's flowers have almost invariably perished in the long voyages of the 

 packet ships, from being badly packed, &c. : and we hope soon to see them 

 becoming every where common, since the rapid passages made by the steamers 

 have enabled us to import them in excellent condition. 



In the Literature of Gardenings but little has been produced here, as the 

 current works of the English press, of a higher character, find their way 

 across the Atlantic almost as soon as published. Buist's American Flower- 

 Garden Directory, and Bridgeman's Gardener's Assistant, Kenrick's Orckardisf, 

 and Lindley's Guide to the Orchard (American edition), are the most popular 

 works that have yet been published in this country. Hovey's Magazine of 

 Horticidture is published monthly at Boston. Our agricultural periodicals, 

 increasing daily in number and circulation, are working great good for the 

 farming interest, and indirectly for that of gardening, by teaching some of the 

 principles of the arts of culture, as well as practical results in all parts of the 

 Union. The American Institute, which holds an annual fair or exhibition of 

 the products of native industry in New York, second, in point of size or 

 interest, to none in the world, has for two years past had a department, 

 especially devoted to agriculture, where the choicest stock and pure blood 

 cattle are shown and sold, and where ploughing matches to test the best im- 

 plements are held. The present season they have also proposed a horticultural 

 department, which, if carried out on an equally liberal scale, may be of great 

 service in fostering a taste for horticulture. 



Botanic Garden and. Nurseries, Newburgh, near Kew York, 

 Sept. 30. 1840. 



Art. IV. Re-port on the State of Agriculture and Horticulture in 

 Egypt. Extracted from Dr. Bowring's Report on Egypt, presented 

 to Parliament, and printed in 1840. 



The Report from which the following extracts are taken is 

 one of the most interesting which can well be conceived. Egypt, 

 which is generally considered to be a semi-barbarous country, 

 in which it is dangerous to travel, and next to impossible for a 

 European to live in comfort, is here shown to be making gigantic 

 strides in civilisation, and all this through the efforts of one in- 

 dividual, the present pacha, or viceroy, Mahomet Ali. The 

 ioyf extracts for which we can afford room chiefly relate to 

 agriculture and gardening; but as the Report itself, occupying 

 236 folio pages of small type, is, like other government Reports^ 

 sold for little more than the price of the paper (35. 6d.), we 

 recommend it to every reader whose heart is capable of ex- 

 panding with delight at the prospects of human nature, in a part 



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