4 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. . [N° 4 
a desxts therefore trust I shall find among your readers, | sions: the subjoined table exhibits the ci fe if Id not help regretting tl 
will each contribute what he f the largest, tak L | feet fi heg d ld be utterly neglected.—H., Bath. 
ae A regarding this, the most important question con- Neel “2° 3 ivfahe “No. 8. .: Wt Oen. { 
nected with British Fo: (I am glad to see yo 2 ae e sae ee FOREIGN sty aan ics NCE 
employ E to so pe- Sle ae Jo Ses oe eT a Ne —I have this day received your 
ti Jael. eee | ee 1l Ss ARGS Lie aca e Gar = en newspaper, which I shall be 
e en! tirely agree with our instep ailect or. the Siri Wid or) © happy ie sapprt as Mes Brera occur. Dr, 
ery great neigh secggek ascertaining by multiplied evi- 5. - 18 0 13 « Led Wight i is ni ni ng in igaieg ou | 
dence what the really are regarding the timber of ar Pay oe. 4. . 23 0 quality, palm 
e red ond ae soak, oF or ie Quercus sessiliflora and No certain record, I believe, exists of the “ge. of these inlets verde as it is called. pl i 
articularly invite our cor- trees, but sees are seeabiy coeval with the first Betch- is as white as this paper, ae in taste not pds: 
worth Castle, founded in 1377, when ‘ Jehe itzalan, | e distinguished from the finest cane sugar. The subject 
ject. Rapedtnoests or oe as to durability under | second son to Ri , Earl of Arundel, had licence to | of sugar is engaging so much attention among us now, 
equal circumstances, and the com) comparative of the | imbattle his siabbe haage here.” In a little work called | that I should not be surprised to find 20,000 tons ex. * 
the “Garden of Surrey, "' ” there is is an extract from the} ported from the Madras presidency annually, before the 
pcb ot pep ipontensinenry Tnorier to render th tu Monthl where oie Aikin th ti eaqurstien | of five years. Cotton, too, is augmenti 
subjoin —_ on other tree: At Approehing Betchworth pies immensely in the amount exported. fou port re hicks 
a woodcut of the two. es Dorking, the road i leads throu! gh an oute r park, | when I visited it five years ago, could not give employment 
S rted is toa single screw, now employs two constantly, and two 
ys 
and of forms which a peiatey would rather denominate | more are building. ‘All this looks well.—Indigo is also 
e peculiar manner = which | on the rise, and the improvement, within the last few _ 
this tree sends off its —— making elbows nd sharp | years, in its quality, is so decided, that Madras manufac- _ 
it turers are in hopes o of soon being ; ab e to compete with 
'y ig on 1 the whole, me it ve lar. 
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e Pala-tree (i rightia tnetora, and so excell in 
traordinary ideas of gigantic The inne = park, appari that when brought as a prize article in com- 
at the extremit mit of which the he is situated, has two | petition with genuine indigo, sted judges could not, from 
fine avenues, the one of elm wae . the other of limes, the appearance, distinguish the difference; but it is said not 
tallest I ever beheld. This inst i is a triple avenue, resem- | to afford so permanent a dye as the other, and does not 
bling the nave of a sae but greatly surpassing realise in the tenant perket more than 4s. 6d., while the 
grandeur the works of anda. The trees tou ch other sells for from 7s. t This, however, promises 
each other with their aches, forming on the outside a | to prove a zi Seo addition - our exports, as the tree is 
vast screen or wall of verdure. Within, the branches eas rec and in the be: st state du uring the hottes' vie eason, 
meeting at a great height in the air from the opposite | wh all other still ight 
sides of the rows, form Gothic arches, and exclude asic mbes out, with ss Hpac despatch, pail first 
every ray of the meridian sun.” At the time Dr. | of hi f Ico — ot expects to have it | 
ikin wrote, forty-two years Bs: these trees were, no resis shed next week. It cont ains pia piace in 
doubt, in a more vigorous state; price in their heads a very Phares ys at least as compared to most 
at least, ough braced peer by iron rods and b efore. He has ae ot ihe plates 
ins, they are mere skeletons of their former great- | fi third volum e of illustrations ready, 
ness; the trunks, too, of several show infallible si f hese he | blish heginn ning Ut the 
speedy decay. St ill, however, ord retain sufficient health year. éy might be out Se etoneeed but his publisher 
to prod whi chin and pte annually eee large almanack, which 
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qt quality to imported but such things cannot well be hel 
fruit. The soil is ligh ty rough the hot season here the heat = the soil is 
is Bee Rem (an nd burns veryth: ing. This ason G ; 
a a comparative ly oe stratum of sand, “barren in saben May) I pl itl 
ce, and yet evidently maeterk sufficient nutriment to ar Batata md strange to say, though for 
nths we scarcely a shower of rain, they 
oa, beech d u too, that ina — 
A maple (A cer campesire growing in stom few Sree oar ee ee grou and oe roe a Ane: 
part of the park,must have pre as least twelve or | carpet of herbage as I have never, even in nm -€x- 
thirteen circumference w! eee its prime. The oe — in — — The shee rie the | 
avenue of lime-trees (Tilia Bice so graphically de- | soil these was lower by about 10 degrees than in 
scribed by I Dr. Aikin, still exists in health. But = aur toil, at four i bichon under the surface. Farther ex- 
i in our periments are. in ae Availin ng myself of the hint, our 
fined days, when it has been priedener that avenues, in- | young next hot season 
| stead of objects of beauty, are nothing more than “ formal | to keep the soil cool and moist, through the hot weather, 
lines,” ‘* wind-spouts,’”” and other objectionable things. | and manure it afterwards by being dugin. In this way I 
AL a : Undoubtedly, strong objections might be urged against Kare to be able to raise coffee plantations, hitherto a 
yo : ye avenues in many situations ; but they do not deserve the | desideratum in Madras 
. White Manis pte S condemnation of some m odern i improvers. In- Munich, Dec. 3, 1840.—You will learn with surprise 
si ig fae ee asa! Y> rae f aris- | that M. de Karwinski has returned to Maxie at the ex- 
Se Id pecially when in combi. pense of _the Russian pen This is a serious 
HOME a baronial i hich t is highly of = , and it is pes we shall 
_ Blue Leschenaultia,—. of mine has lately pur- pease and I will venture t hat th t i carcely see h ie again. 
Per lind eee LE 
satrirwtepnialcnaseiadigmumes 
irae 
e has ish all 
wav 1 Mistoey for Tt It hink, a score of 
the the magnificent wall of of Scags pes prnttiee eed ay one in | learned Russian Societies. Another r young Bavarian, Dr. 
the river Mole, Toth, _ of the President of the Ecclesiastical Protes tant : 
sakeer feelings of admiration.—J. B. Whiting. hi 
Blue Barley.— this autumn at Heidelberg, I tet the 
pe from Mr. Parag ar that the. curious kind of barley | eastern provinces “1 inde, He coabered fi for Bonar 
which has lately been introduced into this country, wi t, and, we hear, 
eed 
>cnaapinr oo nteneasiagnnpingapes. ani 
ago. : 
are?—C., Swaffham. = - is si among other things that bods 8 goes Athrotaxis — 
Leonotis Leonurus.—While oth hunting aft is not different from Cunninghamia., M. Seitz, late — 
1 wh ity is often their chief endati | sane sek have bottle advanced by the king to 
shall content myself with mentioning an old and neglected | thecharge of all the royal gardens. a 
species which I saw in great beauty in the nursery Paris, Dec. 20, 1840.—Very few persons in England — 
Salter and Wheeler, Victoria Nursery, Bath, last November. | have any idea of the vast number of flowers which are ‘ 
T allude to the old Phlomis Leonurus, now changed by daily ex exposed for sale in the markets of Paris. Almost 
the wand of some botanical conjuror into L is Leonurus; flori the cit aged in 
not that I mean to dispute the propriety of separating the | this branch of the trade. The principal. market is held 
plant from Phlomis, for it certainly does not resemble it Le ee ee on the Quai aux Fleurs; 
much, whatever Linnzeus may have thought to the contrary. | and here are assembled in the open air, both in summer 
Ra ee ee ae et and winter, more than 400 florists, w neath pee 
t th eight y 
cr i et igh and produ Bower piany nh Tueesteat of this trade ma: seem -atran, e to those unac- 
ang ee to 24 inches long, re ae is eg 
sarge aioe flowers with all classes in this nts oe 
a en geg Be rod ‘approaching to allo fiends on their Vrth-dy, or the tof =o patron saint — 
of its blos: the elegance of its habit, and | and other things plants and soe . be 
a large dem pi = a 
among: 
the facility of its cultivation, together with its season of | given: Pap tro seammgte shawersred 
that | flowering (October and November), render it a most de- | marghé!? 4a, hower everything- li 
sirable acquisition So It is a half. | ig Se "nok that all the plants are of an ord 
ifoli b ' 5: Bs Sake anata age : 
hows, or cold-pit ; but if i at markets, and ans © others 
