The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste (1870) (14592072017)

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Title: The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste

Year: 1846 (1840s)

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Subjects: Gardening

Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : Luthur Tucker

Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: UMass Amherst Libraries

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namon and Camphor trees complete the representatives of the tropics. In the same series of houses are found trees from a more temperate climate. The Mag-nolia grandiflora. Camellia japonicas, in many varieties ; India-rubber tree in many varie-ties, the Orange, Lime, Lemon and Citron trees, six varieties of the Auricaria and theAzalea. Our American greenhouse plants did not all appear as thrifty as with us on the Atlanticslope; the ornamental leaved plants seeming to suffer greatly. The Coleus was hardly asfinely colored as we have here, but the Begonias were overflowing with bloom. It was cer-tainly intensely interesting to behold, grouped into one place, trees from all parts of theworld. Here is the India-rubber tree from Central America, fifteen feet high ; there theCamphor tree from India; again, the Orange tree from Mexico or the West Indies, and ina corner the Banana or the Sago Palm. The Coffee tree from Arabia and from Australia.Acacias, beyond number, also are gathered there.

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/ Of-.(J ( <MlOllt i Connected with the conservatories is a museum, devoted to curious specimens of stuffedanimals and birds. In one of the rooms was a specimen of the bark of one of the bigtrees of California, thirty-tivo inches thick. In the centre of the large conservatory is a Fine Art Gallery, containing many acceptiblepaintings, the vestibule to which is lined with tiles painted after the fashion of the oldendays of Pompeii and Herculaneum. In the rear of the greenhouses is a pond devoted to aquatic animals, fish, etc., and forpleasure sailing in a circular boat. Back of these are the dens and cages, where aregathered living animals peculiar to the mountains and coast, as also some imported fromthe tropics. 262 Select Ziist of :Eoses. In an adjoining yard, approached by a tunnel under the street, is a large amphitheatre,where stalks the camel and its young, and on stages are chained the panther, black andcinnamon bears, with other living curiosities dispersed at convenient di

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