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In the gardens of Jgegerspriis a beech tree also forms a very curious 

 object ; its branches have been bent backwards to the ground, and fastened 

 to circular trellises ; thus producing a beautiful arbour, impenetrable to 

 rain and heat. This beech is said once to have accommodated a king and 

 eighty courtiers at dinner. 



« RUSSIA. 



Mode of extracting Turpentine and Resin from the Roots of Pine and Fir 

 Trees. — Cut them in pieces from about 1 to 2 in. long, and about 3 in. 

 thick ; boil them in water ; take them out and dry them ; put them in a 

 cast-iron boiler, having a spout below, covered close with an iron lid, and 

 surrounded by sand or brickwork ; light a fire of branches under the 

 boiler, and in a short time afterwards the resin will be found running from 

 the tube. The turpentine floats on the water after the boiling, and is 

 skimmed oif. The charcoal which remains, after the resin is extracted, is 

 of the best quality. (Journ. d" Agr. de Moscou, No. x., 1824.) Resin is 

 much used in Russia by the peasants as a substitute for oil. 



NORTH AMERICA. ^' 



The Horticultural Society of Pennsylvania have offered premiums for 

 the culture of Crambe maritima, which you will be surprised to learn does 

 not grow in Pennsylvania, although it is cultivated in Connecticut. If 

 you or any of your friends could send us a few seeds of this or any other 

 new and useful vegetable, you would greatly oblige us ; you might send 

 them through your booksellers with the Magazine. — J. M. Philadelphia, 

 June 7. 1828. 



Such of our correspondents as have leisure and a few spare seeds,have now 

 an opportunity of employing both in a manner that will contribute to the ad- 

 vantage of their brethren in America, and open a source of gratification for 

 themselves. If the seeds and letters be sent to us, we shall take care of them. 



Botanic Garden of St. Vincent. — The higher and hilly parts of this garden 

 are clothed with a dense forest of useful woods, fruits, and palms, the bottom 

 is the only part which has the least resemblance to the formal arrangement 

 of a European garden. Here nature is unconfined, and this beautifulwilder- 

 ness is, without doubt, the most charming residence of Flora in all her 

 domains. A noble avenue, intercepted only by a single towering palm 

 {Areca Cdtechu), runs from the house to the bottom, giving a view of the 

 bay, the town, and a group of smaller islands within the government. A 

 narrow walk leads the stranger round the bounds of this tropical nursery, 

 and at the bottom affords a sight of the bold blue outhnes of the noble 

 mountain which terminates the landscape. 



Dr. Anderson having already published a list of the plants, I shall only 

 notice a few of the most remarkable, not in order to give even the outline 

 of a Flora, but to enable the botanic reader to form an idea of the phy- 

 siognomy of the ground, and aspects of the vegetation. 



The higher division, crowded with trees of larger gi-owth, is perhaps 

 most calculated to interest the European visitor. If he derives any plea- 

 sure from the beauties of picturesque scenery, on entering the silence of 

 this solitude, he will be scarcely able to define what most excites his admi- 

 ration, the individual beauty and contrast of the forms, or that eternal spring 

 and luxuriance of vegetable life which reign around. Nature here appears 

 prodigal of organic matter. The ground seems overloaded with plants, 

 which have barely room enough for their developement. The trunks of the 

 older trees are every where covered with a thick drapery of ferns, mosses, 

 and orchideous plants, which diffuse into the air the richest odours, and 

 almost conceal from sight the noble plant that upholds them Their growth 

 is favoured by the great moisture of the air ; and these pretty parasites, 



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