36*i Domestic Notices : — Scotland. 



A new Variety of Hawthorn wilh Carmine'Crimson Blossoms. — This thorn, 

 of which you have requested some account, was received here by the name 

 of " new scarlet tliorn" from Rivers's Nursery, Sawbridsicwortii, Herts ; 

 whence, as T. Rivers, jun., told me, it lias been widely spread. It certainly 

 deserves to be spread ; for it is one of the most lovely of trees, and niucli 

 more ilesirable tiian the old [)ink thorn, or, as it is often calleil, scarlet thorn. 

 One of the plants of the new kind, received here from Rivers's, is about 

 5 ft. high and bushy, and last year displayed several corymbs of blossoms. 

 The flowers were from twelve to twenty in a corymb, and each individual 

 flower of two thirds of the breadth of a sixpenny piece ; the petals were of 

 a most beautiful carmine-crimson, except in their claws, which were white, 

 and thus constituted a white eye surrounded by a broad crimson orbit. 

 It is a most charming variety, and richly merits an immediate place in 

 every garden. — Henri/ Turner. Botanic Garden, Burt/ St. Edmunds, 

 Feb. 28. 1832. 



This account made us anxious to acquire so ornamental a shrub ; and 

 Mr. Rivers, jun., in a reply to our application, remarked : — " What a 

 sweet mass coulil be formed by grouping this bright-hued variety with other 

 varieties, which would supply together gradations of colour. From the 

 carmine-crimson of the blossoms of the new variety, we could descend to 

 the pink hue in the blossoms of the old pink thorn ; from this to a pale flesh 

 colour in the flowers of the double thorn, for these are of a pale flesh colour 

 when fading; and from this to pure white in the blossoms cf the common 

 hawthorn,andthoseof the other species and varieties of 6Vatae''gus." — Cond. 



SCOTLAND. 



A General Cemetery for Edinburgh is in contemplation, but the site is 

 not yet determined upon : one party, it seems, proposing to place it in 

 alow wet piece of ground, called the Meadows; and another in the King's 

 Park, that is, in part of the royal domain of lIol}rood Palace. Mr. 

 Neill " suggests one of the slopes at the south-western base of Arthur's 

 Seat, near the stile at Gibraltar House." This place, he says, would 

 afford great variety of surface, " cajjable of every sort of embellishment, 

 architectural and arboreous." We arc glad to hear that the idea of orna- 

 menting a cemetery is acceptable to the inhabitants of Edinburgh ; and we 

 hope, if such a burial-place should be formed there, a regular garilener 

 will be appointed, so as to combine with it (as far as practicable), an 

 arboretum and botanical garden. This seems to be Mr. Neill's idea : we 

 have thrown out one on the same subject, in the Edinburgh W'cekli/ Chro- 

 nicle for Jan. 21. 1832. Our [)lan embraces the whole centre or cone of 

 Arthur's Seat, with a view of combining a public park or promenade with 

 a cemetery, ami with various other objects, hinted at in the following 

 extracts from the news()aper alhideil to : — 



" My plan does not include Salisbury Craigs, nor the east of the hill, 

 but only the centre or cone, from its base at the park of llolyrood, ou 

 the one side, to the foot-path leading to the village of Duddingstone on 

 the other. If this space were obtained, the main entrance might be made 

 from the King's Park, connecting it with the end of the Canongate by a 

 broad road. From this main entrance let a carriage road be conducted 

 u|) the hill, ascending it at not more than an inch in a yard (the slope of 

 the road over the Simplon), and following all the irregularities of the sur- 

 face, to which a rigid adherence to this slope might lead, till it reached 

 the sununit. Let the road then terminate in a level circular platform, with 

 the naked rock, which, if I recollect right, forms tiie apex of the conical 

 iiill, rising up in its centre. From this circular platform let another 

 carriage road, departing at a point of the circumference opposite to that 

 at which the other entered, descend the hill, winding round it at the isaine 



