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authors of acknowledged celebrity; and in the nomeHclatui^ 

 of fruits he has been guided by Duhammel, Forsyth, Chap- 

 tal, the Luxembourg Catalogue, and other publications con- 

 sidered as most accurate ; and has also endeavoured, as far as 

 possible, to prevent those misconceptions which frequently 

 arise from the same fruit being known under a variety of 

 names in different localities, by giving the synonymes by 

 which the same fruit is known in different places, and con- 

 densing them under one head. 



Visitors are allowed free access to the Garden on all days 

 except Spnday,and scientific gentlemen forming Herbarii are 

 presented with fresh specim^ens of the difl^erent plants free 

 from any expense whatever ; and he invites those conver- 

 sant with Horticulture to visit his establishment for their 

 amusemeiit, as v/ell as in order that they may form a proper 

 estimate of the extent and value of its collections. 



Very large accessions are making almost daily to the 

 Green-house collection, and also to the establishment gene- 

 rally, as well by extensive importations from the most cele- 

 brated collections of Kurope, as by the interchange of civi- 

 liiies with Botanic Gardens in different quarters of the 



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obe, and the liberal contributions of gentlemen of science 

 and research, whose pleasure or avocations call them to re- 

 mote regions ; and plants and seeds of several hundred very 

 valuable species are now in the proprietor's possession, which 

 are not enumerated in the catalogues. As acquisitions are 

 making so frequently, it follows of course that many fruits 

 and plants will be some time in possession previous to their 

 being announced in a new edition of the catalogues, it is not 

 therefore always necessary to omit ordering a tree or plant 

 on account of its not being enumerated therein. Very par- 

 ticular attention has been paid to the Vine, the culture of 

 which seems now so fully to have awakened the attention of 

 our country, and every variety of great merit has been ob- 

 tained regardless of pains or expense. The proprietor has 

 now more than 20,000 -uines reared by himself^ besides a 

 irreat many imported ones ; and the ensuing autumn, he will 

 be able to offer to the public more than 1 00,000 of his own 

 rearing. He has pursued their culture to this great extent 

 from a full conviction, that, situated as we are in an empire 

 comprising every variety of climate, we would no longer re- 

 main blind to our interests, and continue dependent on coun- 

 tries possessing comparatively few advantages, for a supply 

 of what could 'so easily be rendered a primary article of our 



