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24 THE PHI LADE LP HIA FLORIST. [Mat 



I sr>) Philadelphia is not a mere mercantile city, where the race for 

 rp wealth is run by citizen and foreigner, which overturns or tramples 

 upon the divine and beautiful, moral and intellectual principles 

 of nature ; it is a city where these principles are cherished and appre- 

 ciated — where the artizan of enterprise appeals not in vain to the 

 millionaire, nor the gardener to the territorial proprietor, nor the clerk 

 to the merchant for aid and succor. And in these conclusions we 

 state facts as we find them in the Quaker City, as other immigrant 

 foreigners have found them. 



Our Monthly Tour of Inspection. 



Gardeners are generally much addicted to perambulation ; they 

 learn much in this way, more than being closely confined in their own 

 conservatory or truck patch or parterre. We wander much about. 

 We derive pleasure from the knowledge we gain in the small plant 

 houses of enterprising amateurs more than in the immense collections 

 of old cultivators. 



General Patterson's houses contain at present some valuable speci- 

 mens of plants such as Illicium floridanum, Polygala oppositifolia, 

 Tropceolum canariense, Franciscea latifolia. Fine specimens of orange 

 trees bending with ripe and perfect fruit, and a variety of large and 

 showy specimens of more generally distributed plants — Gardener 

 Isaac Collins, Locust and Thirteenth streets. 



James Dundas, Esq. — The plant houses of this distinguished ama- 

 teur of horticulture, always open to the lovers of the science, are 

 worthy a visit at this season. The eye fatigued with snow, and 

 frost, and rain, and mud, rests here on luxuriant vegetation in a state 

 approaching nature. The orchids hang in pendant spikes from de- 

 cayed vegetable matter, in the shape of rustic wood work, nine feet 

 in length, a spike of oncidium altissimum — or (tallest oncidium) wan- 

 ders amongst the frond of the Latania or Palm. The curious pitcher 

 plant with its well adapted operculum hangs from its block in humid 

 luxuriance, JV*. Rajflesianum is the new species and may be seen here, 

 and the little pitcher plants all around indicate the old gardener's 

 success in impregnation and cultivation. Mr. Bisset is your friend if 

 you are a friend to horticulture. He has also Fuchsia Chalmerii, Snow- 

 drop, Gay Lad, Chateaubriand and many others in full bloom. Also 

 Maxillaria Grahamii, Oncidum Cebolletii, O.flexuosum, 0. Carthagi- 

 niensis and others in fine order. But our list would swell, and the 

 Magnolia out doors tells that all are not in the houses which are 

 worth notice. We shall call again before November. We have not 

 had time to stop at other places in the vicinity but shall do so at our 

 ) first opportunity. 



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