deservhig of' general Cidtivution. 



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places, plants might be 

 trained to a single stem, 

 and budded with S. race- 

 mosa, standard high. The 

 price of plants, in the Lon- 

 don nurseries, is Is. 6d. 

 each. {Arb. Brit., p. 1031.) 



Syringa Josikae^a Arb. 

 Brit., p. 1210., is a new and 

 beautiful species of lilac, of 

 which plants may already 

 be procured in some of the 

 nurseries. 



i^raxinus americana Arb. Brit.^ p. 1232. Those who have 

 only seen this species, and its numerous varieties in the Horti- 

 cultural Society's Gar- j-v-^ /\^vr:^ 18 

 den, or in the arbore- 

 tum of the Messrs. Lod- 



diges, can form no idea ^\\\\/ 1 V^'//^^ 

 of the grandeur and \ \<^V\ \ \ll//y^^ .< 

 beauty of the tree, 

 when of a considerable 



size, and grown in free ^^^^^^ar^iii^^,^^^:^ 



air near water. We 

 are led to make this 

 remark from the beauty 

 and freshness of a col- 

 lection which was late- 

 ly sent to us by Mr. 

 Brooks, from his arboretum at Flitwick House. It is singular 

 that there are no old American ash trees in the splendid col- 

 lection of old exotic trees and shrubs at Syon. The highest 

 American ash that 

 we know of is that 

 fiijured in our Arbo- 

 return from a speci- 

 men at Ham House ; 

 where, however, the 

 tree, being on a gra- 

 velly soil, suffers every 

 summer for want of 

 water. But the most 

 magnificent specimen 

 of an American ash, 

 and that, too, of the 

 finest variety of the species (viz. F. a. juglandifolia), is on the 

 banks of the Thames, in front of Pope's Villa. It is there nearly 



