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purchase a snug farm and stock it. This natural love of independence 

 and comfort carries nearly all the good gardeners to our western country, 

 where they settle as fanners. I am. Sir, yours, &c. — Ji. C. Near Phila- 

 delphia, July 10. 1831. 



A Geographical Garden. — An American gentleman of the name of Hill 

 has petitioned congress for a grant of land and a sum of money, to enable 

 him to put in practice a plan he has formed of a geographical garden. The 

 ground allotted for this purpose is not to exceed 10 acres, and within that 

 limited space he purposes to dehneate accurately every known part of 

 the world, agreeably to the principle of Mercator's projection. The 

 beds of oceans, seas, gulfs, bays, and lakes are to be depressed; the 

 continents, peninsulas, isthmuses, mountains, islands, &c. elevated ; paral- 

 lels of latitude, meridians, equator, ecliptic, tropics, and other circles cor- 

 rectly laid down ; the channels of rivers described as in their natural courses, 

 and lowered in proportion to the height of their respective banks. The 

 beds of oceans, &c. are to be covered with gravel, the land adorned with 

 verdure, and the mountains furnished with such bases as geology points 

 out, ami, if necessary, the former are to be so constructed that they may 

 be filled with water at any time ; so that the coup d'oeil will give a minia- 

 ture representation of the whole world in its native elements. (Dum- 

 fries and Galloway Courier, Aug. 10. 1824.) 



The above project bears some similarity to Mr. Main's " Outlines of a 

 Plan for the formation of a Classical Garden," given in p. 432. — J. D. 



Botanic Garden at the College of St. Mary's, Baltimore. — A botanic 

 garden has just been commenced at St. Mary's College in this city. Meet- 

 ing with great obstacles in the formation of a collection, and understanding 

 that distributions for the diffusion of the science were often made by the 

 establishments in the United Kingdom, I thought it would be my duty 

 to endeavour to draw to ourselves a portion of this bountiful supply. 

 Therefore, Sir, if you can procure for us collections of plants from any of 

 the public institutions of your favoured country, you will confer a very great 

 favour, a lasting benefit, on the institution of which I have the honour to be 

 a member. Yours, &c. — H. T. Dickehid, Curator, Bot. Gardeti, S.M.C. 



P.S. A correspondence with any of the great nurserymen and botanic 

 gardeners in London, or elsewhere ; Messrs. Loddiges of Hackney ; Mi*. 

 Colvill, King's Road ; Messrs. Lee of Hammersmith, or others ; would be 

 particularly desirable; and we would be under great obligations to you to 

 procure them for us. — H. T. D. 



The Charliesho2)e Beehive. — Sir, Among the various beehives figured 

 both in your Encyclopcedia of Gardening and in this Magazine, I have not 

 seen any notice of one in general use in the southern part of North 

 America. I send you some rough sketches of this hive (Jig. 118.), which 

 may be thus described : — 



a, A front elevation of the hive, as seen resting on the cleats or strips of 

 wood (/) used as supports. The size of the hive is 15 in. square at the 

 top, and 7 in. square at the bottom. The back board of the hive is 2\'m. 

 shorter than the front board ; in consequence of which the bottom board 

 has an inclination of 2i in. as represented by the side ones {b, d). 



c. The hive tilted, showing the inside, and the seven triangular recesses 

 n, which are cut about a quarter of an inch deep into the back and front 

 boards. 



d. The platform on which the bees alight. 



This platform is a continuance of the bottom board, and contains a hole 

 of 3 in. in diameter (e), on which is nailed a round piece of tin, perforated 

 like the rose of a watering pot, for the purpose of giving the hive air. 



(/) The cover of the hive, with a band running round it of 3 in. in 

 depth ; covering the hive like the cover of a bandbox. The upper rim 

 raised high enough to receive the box (g), which is exactly 15 in. square. 



