♦310 Foreign JVotices. — Domestic J\*otices. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. Foreign Notices. 



ENGLAND. 



Floricidtural Exhibition. — A grand floricultural exhibition was to be 

 held at the Surrey Zoological gardens on the 15th and 16th of June last ; 

 the proprietor of the gardens, Mr. Cross, gives fifty guineas, in gold and 

 silver medals, for certain specified green-house and other plants; it seems 

 that the Metropolitan Society of Florists and Amateurs, who held their 

 exhibition in the gardens last season, from some cause, have become dis- 

 satisfied, and will not again exhibit there ; Mr. Cross has, consequently, 

 had recourse to his own purse, and offers the above medals to any per- 

 sons who may exhibit. It will have a good effect, as it will make every 

 gardener do his utmost to show the most superior specimens. — Conds. 



Art. II. Domestic Notices. 



Moms multicauUs. — We have lately understood, from several gentle- 

 men from Hartford, who are quite interested in the cultivation of the 

 mulberry, and the manufacture of silk, that this species has been so se- 

 verely destroyed during the past winter, by the intense cold, that it is 

 the intention to give up its cultivation altogether in that vicinity ; one 

 individual lost nearly ten thousand trees, root and branch; and about 

 all the plantations which have been made, have shared nearly the same 

 fate. The demand for the old white mulberry, the ensuing year, will be 

 greater than ever. — Conds. 



Walker's Long Green Cucumber. — This new and fine variety, which 

 Ave stated in ourlast as having been raised at Oakley Place, has also been 

 grown by E. W. Bull, Esq. of Hartford, Conn. Some of them measured 

 upwards of twenty-two inches in length. He slates to us that is a fine 

 and extremely valuable kind. — lb. 



Moss House. — A house of this description has lately been built on the 

 nursery grounds of the Messrs. Winship, Brighton. The whole of it 

 was planned and completed by their late gardener, Mr. Robert Murray. 

 It is quite an ornament in rural scenery, and its execution reflects great 

 credit upon the taste of Mr. Murray. We would attempt some descrip- 

 tion of it, but our readers may expect a full account from him, 

 before long, accompanied, perhaps, with some cuts, by which others 

 may be easily erected. — lb. 



The Maryland Horticultural Society have offered premiums for the 

 next year, (from .June 6th, 1835, to the spring exhibition of 1836,) to 

 the amount of nearly two hundred and fifty dollars. In the list we 

 notice three amateur premiums, of ten dollars each ; the first for the 

 four best bunches of asparagus, 26 stalks each ; the second, for the 

 finest half peck of pears ; and the third, for the finest and rarest exotic, 

 in bloom, we suppose, though it is not stated. Among the others, are 

 premiums for the bast seedling camellias, geraniums, &c. — lb. 



