fondS en Par J. P. Vandermaelen. 403 



sembiyanthemum, Opuntia, iJuphorbia, Stapelm, .5^Ioe, &c. &c. 

 complete this rich collection. 



We were particularly struck with a very large Strelitzia regi- 

 nse which was in flower in the same house; with two individuals 

 of S. spathulata, one of S. augusta, and an S. humilis; several 

 crinums; eight species of Zumia; Jlreca borbonica; Panddnus 

 Amersii, very rare; Bonapartea gracilis; a species of Tilland- 

 sia, which flowered for the first time in 1835; Tamus elephant- 

 ipes, twenty-five inches in diameter; Phoe^nix paludosa; several 

 Calanthe, sp., received directly from China, in 1834, and Cle- 

 rodendron of great variety. 



We principally noticed, in the small green-house, twenty spe- 

 cies of the genus Mimosa, eight of genus Protea, three of genus 

 Banksirt, ten of genus Hakea, eleven of genus Dryandra, twelve 

 of genus Diosma; seven of Melaleuca; nine of Metrosideros; 

 three of J5Jpimedium from Japan. 



The entire collection under glass embraces about fifteen thou- 

 sand plants. 



The garden is not less rich in rare acclimated plants and in 

 foreign trees and shrubs. We noticed a superb lot of pseonies, 

 of which more than two hundred seedlings had not even flower- 

 ed; a great number of jRhododendron, Azalea and Magnolia, 

 forming dense thickets, covered, during the summer, with a pro- 

 fusion of flowers; Kalmio, Lonicera, Andromeda, many species 

 of t/E'sculus, twenty-eight species of Phlox, eighty-eight of .y3's- 

 ter, twenty-five of >S'axifraga, twenty-five of ^'ediim, &c. &c., 

 with many varieties of dahlias, spiraeas, campanulus, irises, che- 

 lones, veronicas, valerianas, Querci of the United States, twen- 

 ty-four species of i^raxinus, great number of Catdlpa, Lirio- 

 dendron, Pyrus japonica, and a multitude of others too numerous 

 for detail. 



jNf. F. Vandermaelen has not confined himself to fastidious deco- 

 ration, but aims to form a garden for the naturalization of plants 

 and of botany, and which should be entirely devoted to the study 

 of that delightful science; the plants are arranged in a picturesque 

 manner, after the sexual system of Linnaeus. An aquarium in 

 the garden is intended for aquatic plants, and a place has been 

 reserved for an arrangement of plants by natural families. The 

 founder of this school of botany has engaged a learned professor, 

 M. Scheidweiler, who gives, twice a week, gratuitous lectures 

 in botany and vegetable physiology. 



X. 



The above account has been furnished us by a correspondent. It 

 ^yill be read with great interest. Probably M. Vanderniach;n's estab- 

 lishment is one of the most extensive in Belgium. It will be seen in a 

 future page that he gained several of the principal prizes at the late 

 celebrated display of flowers at Ghent. — Cotid. 



