Domestic Notices : — Fingland. lOi 



I found that the snow had been scratched away from seven clumps of this 

 plant, and that they all had been eaten down quite close to the ground. — ^ 

 H. Turner. Botanic Garden, BuriJ St. Kdmuncrs, Dec.2o. 1830. 



The above remark pleases us much, because it reminds us of the lines 

 by Pope, in his Esmi/ on Man : — 



" Go, from the creatures thy instructions take : 

 Iiearn from the birds what food the thickets yield 5 

 Learn from the beasts the physic of the field," &c. 



This act of the rabbit is precisely tantamount to the conclusion to which 

 man has arrived after years of scientific application. Lindley, in his In- 

 troduction to the Natural System, says of the natural order Campanulaceae, 

 " The milky juice of these plants is rather acrid ; but nevertheless the roots 

 and young siioots of some species, particularly of Campanula 72apimculus, 

 or Rampion, of Phyteuma spicata, of Canarina Campanula, &c., are occa- 

 sional articles of food." 



" Say, where sure instinct is the unerring guide, 

 What pope or council can they need beside ? " 



Pojje's Essay on Man. — J.D 



T]ie Bamboo is to be found in different gardens in Jersey from 8 to 12 ft. 

 high; for example, in Saunders's nursery. — R. Sept. 22. 1830. 



liemarlcable Pears. — Your correspondent, Mr. B. Saunders of the 

 Island of Jersey, informs me, in a letter dated Sept. 6. 1830, that he has. 

 been on a tour through some parts of France, and has met with a pear 

 weighing 4 lbs., and another without either core or seed. — S. Sept. 1830. 

 A Sweet Chestnut of a very superior sort, well deserving the attention of 

 nurser3men as a source of scions for grafting, stands in the garden of 

 Capt. Clemens in the parish of St. Peter's, Jersey. Mr. Donald of the 

 Goldworth nursery, and Mr. Roy of Aberdeen new nursery, expect to 

 have plants for sale in the autumn of 1831. — B. Sept. 22. 1830. 



The Kassaba Melon. — Su", I enclose some seeds of the Kassaba melon, 

 which is deservedly esteemed as one of the finest among the fine ones cul- 

 tivated on the coasts of islands of the Levant. The seed was originally 

 introduced by our generous-hearted and public-spirited Commissioner Ross 

 of the dock-yard liere, who brought it with him from Malta, and gave me 

 a few grains last spring, some of which I gave to our late county member, 

 Mr. Bastard of Withy, the munificent founder of our Horticultural So- 

 ciety here, and a gentleman who does more substantial good without noise, 

 than those who suffer their benevolence to evaporate in fine speeches 

 which mean nothing. The Kassaba melon, a fruit of which Mr. Bastard 

 kindly sent me as a specimen and for the sake of the seed, is of a large 

 size, resembling the form of the Cucvu-bita lagenaria, of a bright yellow when 

 ripe, very succulent, almost indeed equalling the Cucurbita Citrullus, of a 

 fine flavour, and must be highly grateful in warm countries. I know not 

 whether it has ever been cultivated in this country before : it certainly 

 differs from the fruit of any of those described in the last edition of the 

 Hortus Kewcnsis. It appears either a hybrid or a connecting link between 

 Cucurbita and Cucumis, both from the appearance of its fruit, and a manifest 

 tendencv exhibited in some of its seeds to a margin round the edge. — 

 W. Hamilton. 15. Oxford Place, Phjinouth, August 28. 1830. 



An excellent Variety of Cucumber is grown in the forcing-houses at Syon. 

 The fruit is long, perfectly smooth, and the leaves extremely large (18 in. 

 across) : they are grown in boxes placed over the back flue of the pine- 

 pits, and the shoots trained imder the glass over the path. Mr. Forrest 

 has gathered fruit dail}- since October last, and will continue to do so, if he 

 chooses, all the year round. — Cond. Jan. 5. 1831. 



Large Pumpkin. — Sii', Since the commencement of your excellent 

 work, the Gardener's Magazine, you have favoured your readers with 



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