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"OF THE

AMERICAN

GARDENER'S MAGAZINE.

THE AMERICAN GARDENER'S MAGAZINE, circulating as it does throughout the United States, among a great portion of the scientific, practical, and amateur gardeners, offers a valuable medium to Nurserymen, Florists, and Seedsmen, for advertising their various productions. To Booksellers, who have works on Botany, Gardening, Agriculture, and others connected with Domestic and Rural Economy, for sale, it is peculiarly adapted for advertising.

Advertiseinents inserted on the following terms:

Six lines and under,

One third of a page,

Half a page

A page,

$1.00

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All advertisements must be sent to the publishers (post paid) on or before the fifteenth of the month.

WORKS

ON

AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, BOTANY, &c.,

FOR SALE BY

HOVEY & CO.

I.

THE GREEN-HOUSE COMPANION, comprising a general course of Green-house and Conservatory Practice throughout the year, including all the Plants in Green-house Cultivation, with the Treatment of Flowers in rooms. Third English edition. Price $4 50.

II.

HORTUS WOBURNENSIS; a Descriptive Catalogue, comprising the generic and specific character and color of the flower, native country, year of introduction, soil and mode of propagation, of upwards of 6000 of the finest Ornamental Plants and Shrubs, both exotic and indigenous; to which is added, Designs for erecting Hot-houses, Green-houses, Pits, &c., and Heating by Hot Water. By JAMES FORBES, C. M. H. S., &c., Gardener at Woburn Abbey. 1 vol. medium 8vo. $700.

"We would only remark that the mode of heating by hot water, in use at Woburn, is more successful than we ever saw it at any other garden."-Hort. Reg., March, 1834.

III.

AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GARDENING; comprising the Theory and Practice of Horticulture, Floriculture, Arboriculture, Landscape Gardening, &c. By J. C. LOUDON, F. L. G. H. and Z. S. New edition, in 1 vol. 8vo. (or 20 Parts, price 2s. 6d. each), containing between 1200 and 1300 pages of letterpress, with nearly 1000 Engravings on Wood. Price £2 10s. vellum back.

NURSERY OF WILLIAM KENRICK,

At Nonantum Hill, in Newton, Mass.

FRUIT TREES, ORNAMENTAL TREES and PLANTS; CHINESE MULBERRIES, or MORUS MULTICAULIS, for SILK; 50 cts. per single plant, $4 50 per dozen, $25 to $30 per hundred, or by the thousand at reduced prices. Also Common White Mulberries.

ORNAMENTAL TREES and ROSES; one thousand varieties of the most beautiful. One thousand varieties ornamental herbaceous plants, including splendid Pæonies and Double Dahlias.

Address to William Kenrick, New!on, near Boston. Trees packed for distant places in the first style. Transportation to the city without charge. Catalogues gratis.

All orders left with Messrs. HovEY & Co., who are Agents, at their HORTICULTURAL SEED STORE, Nos. 79 and 81 Cornhill, Boston, will meet with prompt attention. Aug. 17, 1835.

HORTICULTURAL SEED WAREHOUSE.

NEW GARDEN AND FLOWER SEEDS.

HOVEY & CO. (Nos. 79 and 81 Cornhill) have just received their general assortment of fresh SEEDS, of every description, of the growth of 1835. Catalogues of the same may be had, on application, gratis.

BOXES OF SEEDS put up for retail dealers, in any quantity, to whom will be made a liberal discount.

Hovey & Co. are agents for the "Silk Culturist," published at Hartford, and receive subscriptions at their seedstore; 50 cents per year.

COBB'S MANUAL, on the growth of the Mulberry tree and manufacture of Silk. 2d edition; 50 cts.

100 pounds white mulberry seed, of the growth of 1835; also 100,000 WHITE MULBERRY TREES, three years old.

Just published CHAPTAL'S AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY, 1 vol. 12mo. Price $1,25.

GARDEN AND FLOWER SEEDS of every description, including an extensive assortment of the newest and finest varieties.

An extensive collection of Books, connected with gardening, botany, &c. viz., Loudon's Hortus Britannicus, Sweet's Hot-house and Greenhouse Manual, Rennie's Alphabets of Gardening, Botany, Insects, Chemistry, &c., Doyle's Flower Garden, McNab on Heaths, Hortus Woburnensis, Harrison on Fruit Trees, Complete Farmer, new American Gardener, American Orchardist, Gardener's Assistant, Florist's Guide, &c. Subscriptions received for the Cultivator, published at Albany, and conducted by Judge Buel, assisted by a committee of the New York State Agricultural Society; price 50 cents, in monthly quarto numbers.

CHINESE CHRYSANTHEMUMS.

HOVEY & CO. have for sale one of the largest collections of Chrysanthemums, embracing upwards of forty of the finest varieties; they are now coming into full bloom.

-ALSO

A superb collection of CAMELLIAS, containing over a hundred of the most rare kinds.

THE

CULTIVATOR;

A MONTHLY PUBLICATION, DEVOTED TO AGRICULTURE, AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF YOUTH.

PUBLISHED BY THE

NEW YORK STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY,

UNDER THE DIRECTION OF

J. BUEL, J. P. BEEKMAN, AND J. D. WASSON.

VOL. II COMMENCED MARCH LAST.

In Quarto Numbers.-Price 50 Cents a year, in Advance.

THE object of the publication is to disseminate useful information, among the agricultural community in the cheapest practical form; and the success of the undertaking and the character of the paper, are indicated by the fact, that although it has not yet reached the second volume, its subscribers exceed twelve thousand, and comprise residents of twentyone of the United States.

The present volume has been so enlarged, that each number will contain as much matter as eighteen pages of the first. It contains many engravings and cuts executed by good artists, illustrative of implements, animals, and operations of industry.

Vol. I may be had, stitched in a neat cover, for fifty cents. The postage is but 183 cents to any part of the Union.

HOVEY & Co. are agents of the Cultivator for the New England States.

FRUIT and ORNAMENTAL TREES, &c.

FOR SALE at the Nursery of JOHN A. KENRICK, in Newton, five miles from Boston-a large and extensive variety of choice Fruit Trees, Ornamental trees and Shrubs, consisting of the best varieties of the new foreign and native Pears, Apples, Peaches, Plums, Cherries, Nectarines, Apricots, Quinces, Almonds, Gooseberries, Currants, Strawberries, Raspberries, Grapes, &c. In the selection of fruits, no labor or expense has been spared to procure from the best sources, those which have been proved, on trial, to be of the choicest kinds. The utmost accuracy will be observed, and purchasers may depend on receiving trees true to the kinds they order.

Also, the finest collection of herbaceous perennial flowering plants. Pæconies, Double Dahlias,-and a splendid collection of hardy and Chinese Roses, selected with great care, both in regard to the beauty of their flowers, and the distinctness of their colors.

Also, the MORUS MULTICAULIS, or true Chinese Mulberry, by the 100 or 1000, at a liberal discount.-White Italian do. and other varieties, making a complete assortment for stocking a Mulberry Plantation.

All orders promptly executed, and trees will be packed to go safely by land or water, and will be delivered in Boston free of expense.

Address JoHN A. KENRICK, Newton, Mass. Or all orders will meet with the same attention if forwarded or left with HovEY & Co., at their Seed Warehouse, Nos. 79 and 81 Cornhill, Boston, who are agents Catalogues sent gratis, to all applicants.

Nov. 1, 1835.

CATALOGUE OF

NEW GERANIUMS OR PELARGONIUMS,

GROWN AND SOLD BY

WILLIAM RUSSELL,

FLORIST AND LANDSCAPE GARDENER, Jay and Willoughby Streets, near the Military Garden,

BROOKLYN, LONG ISLAND, N. Y.

SECTION I.

White or Blush, with Dark

Lines and Spots.

Americanum..

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Bright Red, with Dark Lines Man of Ross..

and Spots. *Cleopatra (new). $2 00 *Admiral Codrington........50*Cicisteria, (or Countess of Chichester)... ..1 25 Beauty of Brooklyn.......1 25 Latilobium...

Brightoniensis...

*Constance..

...1 25*Paginini (new)

"Countess of Munster......1 00 *Praclarum.

Duchess St. Albans...... 1 00 Plantagenet.

...1 00 Ranger...

75 Seneca..

................1 25 *Taglionii.....

50

*Tory...

25

50

.1 00

.1 50

100

..100

.81 00 Weltge's Sidney.. William the Fourth.. .......1 25 Fastuosum, (or Mary Queen 75 of Scots,).............100

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SECTION V.
Bright Crimson and Purple,
with Dark Lines and Spots.
Alli Pachii.

Fosterianum...

Hillianum..

*Mout Blanc....

Micans..

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$1 25*Brundenelliæ, (Lady Brude

50

75 Duke of Cumberland..

Romeo.........

SECTION IX.

Falklandiæ (Lady Falkland)1 00 Brown's Lady Gore..

Lowndsianum.

...1 25

....1 50 .1 50

$1.00

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75

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*Perfectum...

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Reuben Apsley.

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50

.200

$1 50 Radians.

..1 25 Fanny Kemble..

...1 00 Glorianum..

Rosy Red or Pink, with Dark

Lines and Spots.

Anne Boleyn..

Clintonæ..

*Dessimile, (or R. Cham

pion)..

Daphne.

*Gen. Washington, (new). 1 50 Drakiæ...

Jupiter...

*Lord Munster..

Laxulum Odoratum........1 00 Humii, (Paul's)..

Mollifolium,(or Cherilianum) 75 Lord Combemere..
Maculatum Roseum.. ...100 Weltjeanum....

*Phoenix

Queen Emma.

Queenii..

Rubinium..

*Roselia.

...1 50; ...1 00

Princess Augusta.... *Queen Sheba........

Dark *Queen Adelaide..........100

Quercifolium Superbum....1 00

.1 50 Russellianum.............100
1 25 Translucens......
75 Vestris.....

1 25 Willinorianum .... .......100

...1 00

50

.....1 00

.00

.......125

SECTION VII.

SECTION X.
With Dark Clouded Purple
Crimson.

bans)... Jenkinsonia.

50 Dark Shade Red or Crimson, *Beauclarkii, (Duke St. Al-
50 with Dark Lines and large
Spots.

...1 25

Roseumi Multiflorum......2 00 De Vere..
Urbanum....

75*Earl Grey.

.$1.25 75

......$0 75 Obscurum Grandiflorum...1 00 50 .1 25 Yeatmanianum....

Persons taking twelve varieties, will be supplied at $12 00. The above splendid Collection of New Pelargoniums were imported last Fall, from W. R.'s original and celebrated Collection at Battersea, near London, and contains the most distinct and beautiful varieties that can be offered for sale in this country. Those marked thus were obtained from Seeds raised by him in England. Thus in this country. He has also fine Flowering Plants of his new Scarlet Flowering Rhododendron Russellianum, Potentilla Russelliana, Double, White, and Red, China Paonias, Dahlias, and other choice desirable Green-honse, and hardy Plants. Seeds saved from W. R.'s Collection of Geraniums, 25 cents per paper. Designs for Parks, Flower Gardens, &c., Hothouses, Greenhouses, Conservatories, &c., upon the most approved modern style of English Gardening. Orders faithfully executed, with good package, and carefully despatched to any part of America.

THE

AMERICAN

GARDENER'S MAGAZINE.

JANUARY, 1836.

ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

ART. I. Some Account of a Green-house erected the past Summer in the Garden of Mr. S. Sweetser, Cambridgeport; accompanied with Engravings illustrating the same, and the method of Heating by Hot Water. By the CONDUCTORS.

AGREEABLY to our intentions, it is with much pleasure that we now present to our readers an account, accompanied with a description and engravings, of a neat, beautiful, and very convenient green-house erected by Mr. Sweetser in his garden the past summer, and which has been finished but a few weeks, and the plants just moved into their places for the season. To his kindness in communicating to us, thus early, the information which is contained in this article, we are greatly indebted; and we have no doubt our readers will be equally so with ourselves. We are confident that this house will be found one of the most complete of the kind that has ever been erected in our vicinity. It is just the size that any person would wish who has but a few hours to devote to the cultivation of flowers and plants; and the cost of the erection is so trifling, compared with what is generally estimated by those who are unacquainted with gardening, and have but little information on the subject, that we are certain it will serve as a model to build by for every lover of horticulture who is desirous of having attached to his garden or dwelling, that most truly desirable of modern additions, through our long and dreary winters, a green-house.

In the construction of green-houses, hot-houses, graperies, &c., there is yet much information wanted; from this want,

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