THE MAGAZINE 



HORTICULTUR 



NOVEMBER, 1837. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. Establissement Geographique de Bruxelles, foncU en 

 1836. Par J. F. Vandermaelen. By X. 



A PAMPHLET has lately fallen into our hands, purporting to 

 be a view of an establishment in Belgium, dedicated to the va- 

 rious branches of natural history. Corresponding to the extent 

 and grandeur of the other departments of the study of nature, 

 the green-house, conservatory, stove and botanic garden have re- 

 ceived due consideration. We quote from a description of the 

 same. 



Green-house. — In the first section was a magnificent collection 

 of three hundred varieties of Camellm, among which were some 

 recently obtained, and of very great value. The collection of 

 pelargoniums, above five hundred in number, comprising the dis- 

 tinct species, with varieties and hybrids, is, without dispute, one 

 of the most beautiful and complete in the country. Four hun- 

 dred varieties of Bengal roses, of great luxuriance; other col- 

 lections, not less important, among which we mention JJhodo- 

 dendron arboreum, of which we counted seventeen new varie- 

 ties raised from seed, grown in Belgium, and which flowered for 

 the first time in the beginning of the year 1835, of such beauty 

 that M. Vandermaelen intends to publish them, with plates. A 

 plant of Jlraucaria excelsa, of great height, Araucdria brasili- 

 ensis, Melaleuca, Eucalyptus, INIetrosideros, Bdnksra, and a 

 group of other plants, of great interest and of very great height, 

 produced a magnificent elfect in winter, in this compartment. 



Contiguous is a large stove, in the borders of which were 

 Caryota urens, Chams^rops palmata [?], humilis and other spe- 

 cies; Phoe^nix (Zactylifera, Jlreca rubra, Zaraia lanuginosa, Sac- 



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