Leycestena.foi'mbsa, as Shelter for Game. 

 The Dessert Bill. 



Art. IV. On Leycester'm formosa, as an Undergroivth for the 

 Shelter and Food of Game, and as a Sea-Breeze Plant Bv 

 N. M. T. " y 



Leyceste^rJ.^ formosa is by no means a splendid plant, but 

 it is, under every circumstance, a striking and very interesting- 

 one. Its admirable pendent racemes of flowers and fruit shel- 

 tered by numerous branches and leaves, are so different from 

 any thing we before possessed, that I find them attract universal 

 attention. Its decidedly hardy character, the amplitude of its 

 foliage, the extreme rapidity of its growth, and the ease with 

 which it may be produced from cuttings, layers, or seed all 

 point it out as an object well calculated to form underwood or 

 shelter for game. Its worth for such purposes would be doubled 

 could game be brought to feed upon its berries, which are pro- 

 duced in great profusion. Could its (to me) insipid fruit be 

 converted into any useful domestic purpose, it would, I think 

 under culture, require the same treatment as the raspberry as 

 it seems disposed to produce its shoots from the bottom annually. 



It seems also to possess in a great degree the valuable pro- 

 perty of standing unshrinkingly the saline breeze, whence it may 

 possibly be useful where so many things are really usele.ss. The 

 only seeming objection to its covering what appear to be un- 

 coverable wastes is, that it carries too much sail. 



Folkstone, Sept. 10. 1840. 



Art. V. Notice of a Petunia oj" extraordinary Dimensions. By A. B. 



Having read in some of the Numbers of the Gardener's Ma- 

 gazine notices of the size to which different plants have at- 



