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! THE (*) 



mimmtmi journal, 



A MAGAZINE OF 



Horticulture, Botany, Agriculture, and the Kindred Sciences. 



Edited and Published by R. ROBTNSON SCOTT. No. 63 Walnut Street, between Second 

 and Dock Streets, up stairs. 



Vol. I.] Philadelphia. [No. 12. 



Foreign Horticultural Establishments. 



We do not wish to devote too much space in an American periodi- 

 cal to the description of foreign gardens, or the provisions made by 

 European tradesmen for the gratification of their supporters, for Ame- 

 ricans are justly fond of their country and its institutions, glad to 

 cherish any attempt on the part of their fellow-laborers to make their 

 country rich in the refinements as well as the necessaries of life. But 

 while we are progressing rapidly here, it will not hurt us to see and 

 know how far they are ahead of us on the other side. We have, in 

 two preceding articles, sketched several of the more prominent nur- 

 sery establishments in the vicinity of the great metropolis, and now 

 propose to enumerate a few further north and west, several large nur- 

 series having become noted for the supply and cultivation of particular 

 families of plants. 



We have been to Messrs. Knight & Ferry's, King's road, Chelsea, 

 famous for Coni ferae and rare hothouse and greenhouse plants. We 

 arrive, a little further on, at the nursery of Messrs. Whitley & Osborne, 

 Fulham road, one of the oldest established of its class, and still main- 

 taining a fair character for ornamental trees, shrubs and coniferse 



though we lately heard it remarked by an American dealer, that he 

 was disappointed in visiting it. Certainly, he must have been, after 

 being to some of the previously enumerated places. We have the 

 Messrs. Rollison's nursery, of Tooting, rich in its collection of Orchids 

 and Cape Heaths; also on the route, Mortlake, a village or little town 

 I on the way to Kew, is famous for its market gardens; and their aspa- 

 r, r ragus beds, or fields, for extensive fields are filled with this valuable A 

 ( /L esculent, cultivated for the London market, distant about eight miles. Q\ 



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