82 HORTICULTURE. 



As a part of the same movement, we must not forget to mention 

 that the city of New-York has been empowered by the State legis- 

 lature to buy 160 acres of land, admirably situated in the upper 

 part of the city, and improve and embellish it for a public park. A 

 similar feeling is on foot in Philadelphia, where the Gratz estate and 

 the Lemon Hill estate are, we understand, likely to be purchased by 

 the city for this purpose. It is easy to see from these signs of the 

 times, that gardening — ^both as a practical art and an art of taste — 

 is advancing side by side with the steady and rapid growth of the 

 country — and we congratulate our readera that they live in an age 

 and nation where the whole tendency is so healthful and beautiful, 

 and where man's destiny seems to grow brighter and better every 

 day. 



