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full three feet deep. He thus created an extensive 
pasture for the roots of fruit and vegetables in 
which to roam in search of their food; and then 
took good care to supply them with varied fertili¬ 
sers of the proper quality and quantity. The 
good results of such a first preparation cannot 
help being noticed by the most careless visitor; 
for such a healthy, rapid, and abundantly pro¬ 
ducing stock as he will here find, is rarely ex¬ 
ceeded in the best natural soils. 
The Hudson valley is one of the finest regions 
in the United States for fruit, and of this advan¬ 
tage Mr. Sargent has taken good care to avail 
himself. Of pears he has about 180 choice va¬ 
rieties, apples 60, peaches the same, plums 46, 
nectarines 12, apricots 9, and native grapes 8, of 
which the best, for this climate, is the Diana, 
though the Isabella and Catawba flourish well. 
We believe Mr. Sargent was the first to erect a 
grape house in the United States, with the cur¬ 
vilinear span roof, (covered on both sides with 
glass,) similar to the renowned conservatory at 
Chatsworth. Messrs. Howland and Van Rens¬ 
selaer, eight or ten miles above, on the same 
side of the river, have since erected graperies 
of a similar shape, and very fine ones they are 
too. Twice the quantity of fruit can be better 
grown in such a conservatory than in one of 
the common shape. Besides the usual variety 
of Muscats, Muscadines, Hamburgs, &c., found 
in graperies, Mr. Sargent cultivates with great 
success, the Charlesworth Tokay, flame colored 
Tokay, Tottenham-Park Muscat, Cambridge 
Botanic Garden, Victoria, Prince Albert, (these 
two last are very fine,) purple damask, (im¬ 
mense berries,) Xeres, (the Sherry grape,) Wil- 
mot’s Black Hamburg, Malvasia, Decan’s superb, 
(a fine white grape,) Lashmere’s seedling, Bish¬ 
op’s, Chasselas Arfaone, (very fine and high fla¬ 
vored,) white Bual, de la Palestine, (immense 
size of bunch,) Caillaba, Black Frontignan, St. 
Peter’s of Allier, White Gascoigne, White Ham¬ 
burg, (very beautiful.) parsley-leaved Ciotat, 
and the superb Black Damascus. 
In rare ornamental shrubs and trees, we be¬ 
lieve Wodenethe is unexampled, at least in New 
York. Mr. Sargent has devoted no inconsidera¬ 
ble amount of money, together with years of 
unremitting attention, to their introduction from 
every part of the world, where there was the 
remotest chance of success in acclimating them. 
The English evergreen shrubs, owing to the 
great difference in climate, he has generally 
abandoned, such as the hollies, laurels, laurusti- 
nus, savins, &c.; but with shrubs and trees, 
from our own and other countries, he has suc¬ 
ceeded quite satisfactorily. Among these are 
the following. 
Ash , the common weeping, the golden bark weeping, and the 
lentiscus leaf weeping. 
Acacia Horrida , with immense triple thorns. 
Beech. —Purple, copper, weeping, purple weeping, cut leaved, 
and fern leaved. 
Birch. —New weeping black, and old weeping silver. 
Cherry. —Old and new weeping. 
Cypress. —Deciduous. 
Elm. —English, Scotch, English cork, Dutch cork, purple elm, 
Chichester, Cornish, Exmcuth, Huntington, glabra pendula, 
and Scampston weeping. 
Horse Chestnut. —Buckeye, yellow flowering, pink flowering, 
scarlet flowering, and dwarf white flowering. 
Judas. —English and American. 
Laburnum. —Weeping and purple. 
Larch. —New weeping. 
Linden. —New weeping, silver leaved, red twigged, and broid 
leaved. 
Magnolia. —tripetala, acuminata, conspicua, soulangiana, gra¬ 
cilis, purpurea, macrophylla, glauca, longifolia. 
Maple.— Cretan, purple leaved, scarlet, pink leaved, Norway, 
English cork, Tartarian. 
Mountain Ash. —New weeping. 
*Sophora. —Weeping. 
Paulownia ,— 
Willow .—New fountain. 
Evergreens.— Arbor Vita;. — American, Chinese, Siberian, 
filiformis, (weeping,) plicata, and tartarica, 
Cedars. —White, red, Deodara, Cedar of Lebanon, and Japan 
or Cryptomeria. 
Abies. —Smithii, Dougla3ii, and Menziesii. 
Picea.— Cephalonica, pinsapo, webbiana, and pinea. 
Pinus.— pinaster, cembra, excelsa, pumilis, ponderosa, Sabini- 
ana, (tender,) Lambertiana, Gerardiana, austriacus, maretta, and 
maratima. 
Juniperus. —Tamariscifolia, alpinus, pendula, cupressus, Bed- 
fordiana, hibernica, recurva. 
Taxus — (yew.) English, Irish. 
Taxodiums. —Sempervirens, horizontales. 
Araucaria , braziliensis. 
Among the rarer shrubs will be found the purple and prickly- 
leaved berberry, twelve varieties English azaleas, eight varieties 
English rhododendron, cotoneaster buxifolia, deutzia scabra, 
euonymus, variegated evergreen, forsythia viridissima. 
Hawthorns. —Double white, scarlet, pint, and variegated Kol- 
reuteria, Ground sel tree, double flowering Japan quince, double 
flowering sloe, African tamarisk, French tamarisk, Weigelia rosea, 
zauecheneria, mahonia, three varieties, purple fiibert, oak¬ 
leaved hydrangea. 
We are glad to notice that efforts such as Mr. 
Sargent has so perseveringly, (we had almost 
written enthusiastically,) bestowed in ornament¬ 
ing Wodenqthe, are beginning to be more highly 
appreciated now than formerly among us. It 
is to amateurs like him, that Europe is in¬ 
debted for the introduction and naturalization 
of man}'' a valuable shrub, tree, flower, seed and 
vegetable, which the people now could not well 
dispense with, except at great inconvenience, 
discomfort, and positive loss to themselves and 
country. For our own part, we honor all such 
efforts, and feel grateful for them, even when 
unsuccessful, or producing nothing beyond an 
added ornament to the grounds surrounding a 
country gentleman’s mansion. 
The Subscription IS* The Plow, the suc¬ 
cessor to the American Agriculturist, and to 
be conducted essentially in the same manner, 
is placed at so low a price, that every man who 
has even a kitchen garden to cultivate, to say 
nothing of him who farms his numerous acres,, 
can afford to pay for it from the advantage he 
will derive from its perusal, and we trust our 
friends will give to it a full and hearty support 
