86 Catalogue of Works on Gardenmg, Sfc. 



this Presidency with an ahnost universal feeling of sorrow and regret, and 

 his friends have testified their admiration of his character, and their sorrow 

 for his death, by the erection of a handsome monument over his grave." 



(P- iv.) 



To the European gardener and botanist this catalogue is interesting, as 

 describing the appearance of many of our stove exotics when growing in their 

 native habitats, and likewise as showing what European or American plants 

 are also indigenous to India, or have been introduced there. 



Clematis grata grows in hedges and thickets, and the feathery tails of its 

 carpels give the hedges of India very much the same appearance as the 

 travellers' joy does those of the chalky districts in the neighbourhood of 

 London. The rocket larkspur is naturalised in Deccan gardens, where it is 

 planted below orange and peach trees to keep down weeds, ^aphanus 

 caudatus, the Java radish, has long tapering pods like whip thongs, and is 

 much cultivated in gardens. Mignonette is introduced, and a universal 

 favourite. CrataeVa Roxburgh is a middle-sized tree, planted about temples 

 and Mussulman tombs ; and also near the abodes of the dead in the Society 

 Islands. Tamarix CTicoides furnishes brooms, as heath does in Europe. 

 JTibiscus i?6sa sinensis, the " shoe flower," is held in great esteem, and several 

 varieties are in cultivation. Datura alba, the thorn-apple, is common among 

 rubbish about villages all over the country ; it possesses very strong narcotic 

 properties, and has on several occasions been fatally used by Bombay thieves, 

 who administer it to deprive their victims of the power of resistance. The 

 Chinese use D. ferox for the same nefarious purposes, ^osa indica is common 

 in every garden, and in flower all the year [as it might be on English conser- 

 vatory walls] : it forms a pretty good edging for garden walks, when neatly 

 kept. The common sweetbriar is a delicate plant in Indian gardens. Canna 

 indica is found in gardens every where, and is in flower the greater part of the 

 year. Its leaves are used to thatch houses with in Cayenne. Cupressus 

 glauca, the common Indian cypress, or cedar of Goa, is found in gardens in 

 Bombay and the Deccan. There are some fine specimens in the peshwa's old 

 garden at Phoolshaher ; and also a little lower down the river, at Corygaum, 

 surrounding an obelisk raised to commemorate the battle fought there on the 

 1st Januar}', 1818. Col. Sykes observes that "the Deccan produces none of 

 the coniferous famil}', except Cupressus ; but it shoidd be added, that it is 

 only found in gardens, or planted by the hand of man." 



These notes, which are taken at random in turning over the leaves, show 

 the kind of information which the book contains for the general reader. 



Catalogue of Plants belonging to the Natural Order Coniferce, cultivated for Sale 

 by Lucoinbe, Pince, and Co., Exeter Nursery. Single sheet. 



This is the fullest catalogue of Coniferas which has yet been published : 

 the number of pines being 63, of ^'bies 16, Picea U, Zarix 6, Cedrus 2, 

 Araucaria 4, Cunninghamia 1, Uammura 2, 7^hiija 6, Callitris 3, Cupressus 8, 

 Taxodium 2, and Juniperus 27 ; in all, 151 species and varieties. 



(.)ur readers are probably aware that our talented correspondent Mr. Glen- 

 dinning has lately joined the firm of Lucombe, Pince, and Co. In noticing 

 this circumstance in a paragraph at the end of the catalogue, Messrs. Lucombe 

 and Co. express their readiness to lend their assistance in the arrangement of 

 arboretums and pinetums, and to aid in establishing scientific classification 

 and correct nomenclature; without which, as they justly observe, assemblages 

 of trees and shrubs lose great part of their value. An original and most 

 valuable feature in the practice of Messrs. Lucombe and Co., and which we 

 could wisii to see adopted by all nurserymen, is, that of keeping by them a 

 stock of labels, formed of cast iron and lead, for sending out with collections. 

 The names are stamped on a plate of lead, and the indentations are filled in 

 with white paint on a black ground. A disc on the shank of the label at 

 once prevents it from being pushed too far into the ground, and from leaning 

 cither to the one side or the other. The stamping of the names on these 



