152 Domestic Notices. 



dwt. ; Lord Crew, 19 dwt. 20 gr.— White. Eagle, 21 dwt. ; Ostrich, 20 dwt. 

 12 gr; Fleur de Lis, 20 dwt. 12 gr.; Lily of the Valley, 20 dwt. 11 gr. 

 ( Gard. Mag.) 



Piize dahlias. — The following are the varieties which carried off the 

 Jirst prizes at the Cambridge Florists' Society. Among the names of the 

 exhibitors are Messrs. Widnall & Brewer, well known as two of the fin- 

 est dahlia growers in England : — 



The best dahlia of any color. — Widnall's Perfection. Crimson, scarlet, or 

 red. — Countess of Liverpool. Jfliite, or shaded white. — Lady Fordwick. 

 Very dark. — Metropolitan Perfection. Orange, salmon or huff. — Wid- 

 nall's Prince of Orange. Purple or shaded purple. — Douglas's Augusta. 

 Stripes of all colors. — A seedling raised by Mr. Widnall. Zdghi ground, 

 edged, or mottled. — Hon. Mrs. Harris. Yelloio, or sulphur. — Yellow Perfec- 

 tion. Rose, or rosy cnmson — Widnall's Perfection. Lilac. — Lilac Perfec- 

 tion. Claret, or puce. — Widnall's Granta. — [Flort. Cab.) 



Mr. Widnall gained the most prizes. The Comitess of Liverpool yet 

 stands preeminent among the scarlets. — Conds. 



Scale for showing the comparative hardiness of Trees.— There are many tree s, 

 generally considei'ed as hardy, which will not stand except m favorable 

 situations ; and others, called tender, which do very well occasionally in 

 the open air. From observing this, it has struck me that the distinctions 

 of hardy and tender, are too broad and too vague, to give an exact idea 

 of the treatment they require ; and I conceive that you woidd do a great 

 service to planters, and to the cause of arboriculture generally, if you 

 were to publish a scale marked thus : — Pinus sylv6stris, h h h, very 

 hardy. Portugal laurel, h. h, tolerably hardy. .^Vbutus U^nedo, h, very 

 hardy. Z/aiirus nobilis, t, tender. Magnoh'rt grandiflora, t t, very 

 tender. Myrtle, or camellia, t t t, exti'emely tender. Pomegranate, or 

 the genus Citrus, r, requiring a frame. — (J. Phillips, — Gard. Mag.) 



HamamHis virginica. — This tree is now beautifully in flower at Messrs. 

 Loddiges's, and in Thompson's Nursery, Mile End. Its yellow blossoms, 

 with their long fringe-like coi-oUas, at this season of the year, when so few 

 trees and shrubs are in flower, are most ornamental ; its leaves die off of 

 a rich deep yellow or orange. It is a pity to see such a tree so much 

 neglected. Mr. Macnab, Jr., whose interesting journey in North Ameri- 

 ca we noticed in p. 620, and shall have occasion to recur to, informs us 

 that it attains the height of 15 feet or 20 feet, in its native situations in 

 America ; and he brought home a piece of the trunk of one tree, for a 

 gentleman, (Mr. Nicol, of Edinburgh) who is now making observations 

 on different sorts of timber, between five and six inches in diameter. — 

 (Gard. Mag.) This is a fine indigenous shrub, or small tree, which we 

 wish was more generally planted in our shrubberies. Its rich-colored 

 foliage, in autunui, adds greatly to the beauty of the scenery in its native 

 situations. — Conds. 



Art. in. Domestic JVotices. 



Stratvberries. — At Belmont Place, strawberries were cut, the last week 

 in March, of fine size ; they were produced on plants which were plac- 

 ed on a shelf on the back wall of the stove. We wish this most delicious 

 fruit was more extensively forced in stoves and hot-beds. A few pots 

 well managed, will produce considerable fruit, and the room they would 

 occupy would be veiy small, compared with that required for other 

 fruits. — Conds. 



