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with my engagement, so far as I am yet able to judge. Good gardeners are rare 

 in this country, especially such as understand the management of the green- 

 house, and particularly the propagating department. Many young Englishmen 

 and Scotchmen here have too prematurely commenced business ; and, goaded 

 on by the prevailing spirit of speculation vi'hich exists in this country, have 

 outwitted themselves, and been unable to fulfil their engagements. With all 

 these beacons set before me to avoid, I am nevertheless of opinion that a 

 man, even with a small capital, who is steady and industrious, and who under- 

 stands his business, may do well and make money fast ; but, in case I disap- 

 point any one, I say he must work hard ; and, although wages are high, articles 

 of clothing are costly, woollen more especially. 



" I have made several tours through some of the neighbouring states, and 

 visited Baltimore, Boston, and New York. In the latter, the march of im- 

 provement is advancing very slowly. Mr. Hogg still takes the lead in rare 

 and interesting plants. Thorburn is a geranium and dahlia grower. After 



having read and heard so much of 's celebrated nursery, Long Island, 



judging from what I saw, it is one of the greatest impositions, as a sale es- 

 tabhshment, that ever came under my notice. You must not believe all that 

 Mr. Hovey says about the Bostonian gardens ; but, if you estimate them 

 about 20 per cent lower than what he holds them up at, you will probably 

 come near the truth. Baltimore is much on the same par with Boston : but 

 I have not time to go into particulars. To give you an idea of what the 

 Philadelphians have arrived at, I herewith send you a copy of the report of 

 our annual exhibition, from Waldie's Circulating hihrary^ a highly respectable 

 weekly periodical. — W. F, B. 



[We have copied the article referred to by our esteemed correspondent, as 

 well to show the extraordinary progress made in horticulture in Pennsylvania, 

 as the account of different commercial gardens which are incorporated in 

 it. — Cond.'\ 



Pennsylvania Horticultural Exhibition. — The tenth exhibition of the Penn- 

 sylvania Horticultural Society was held at the Masonic Hall, on the 20th, 

 21st, and 22d of September, 1837 ; and great merit is due to the committee of 

 arrangement for the splendour with which it was got up. 



On entering the saloon, a large oval table was placed before you, filled with 

 the choicest exotics from the tropics to the arctic circle. In the centre, stood 

 one of the beautiful palms of Ceylon, the Laldnia borbonica. A Cypripedium 

 insigne (a ladies' slipper), from India, excited much curiositj^ from the extreme 

 resemblance of its flower to wax. It is believed to be the first introduced 

 into this country (there is another, the venustum, from India; but the greater 

 part of this beautiful family are indigenous). On the east and west of the 

 centre table were circular ones, each crowned by a beautifiil screw pine, the 

 Panddniis iitilis, and the Panddnus spiralis, surrounded by a vast variety of 

 that beautiful flower, the dahlia, of every tint and hue. At the east end of the 

 saloon was a semicircular table, on wich was a large plant of the Astrapas^a 

 WallichH, surrounded by beautiful exotics : at the west end was a corre- ' 

 sponding table, with another palm, the Latdnia borbonica; and near it a very 

 large plant of the Crinum amabile, in full flower, one of the liliaceous family ; 

 also the black and green teas, the black pepper, the camphor and cinnamon 

 trees, with many of the choicest plants. The walls of the saloon were lined 

 with tables, spread with beautiful plants. In one of the recesses was observed 

 a most singular submarine production, from Singapore : it drew universal at- 

 tention from its great size and appearance: it has received the appropriate 

 appellation of Neptune's wine-cup ; and near this was a framework, having 

 the silkworm in its various stages, from the recently produced worm to the 

 finished cocoon. In the window recesses were displayed an immense number 

 of dahlias. Near one of the east windows was a pyramid, 10 ft. high, by A. 

 Dryburgh, covered with various kinds of flowers, interspersed with evergreens. 

 At one of the north windows was a beautiful architectural model of the 

 United States Bank, by R. Buist, covered with a great variety of the finest 



