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sessions a century ago ; in a century hence they will probably be considered 

 necessaries of life to the general mass of society in Europe ; at least in 

 France, Germany, and England. — Cond. 



A new Passiflora, certainly the finest of the whole genus, between P. 

 racemosa and P. Rermisina [?], has been raised here, and will be given out 

 under the name of P. Loudomawa. — Nap. Baumann. Bolwiller on the 

 Upper Rhine, Dec. 1. 1829. 



A hardy Ceandthus, with fine blue flowers, received from America under 

 the name of C. ovatus, will be on sale next spring. — Id. 



Tilia aurea, a new variety of the common lime, found in a forest in this 

 neighbourhood, is already on sale ; it is a beautiful and singular plant ; it 

 will not graft on T. europae'a, but takes freely on T. americana, A problem 

 for vegetable physiology to solve. — Id. 



GERMANY. 



Weather at Munich. — It may deserve recording, as an instance of that 

 extensive range of the changes in atmospherical temperature which some- 

 times take place, that when we were at Munich last autumn, a fall of snow 

 (melting, however, as it fell) occurred so unusually early as on the 7th and 

 8th of October, and that the English -papers stated, that on one of the 

 same days the stage coaches had come into Dover and other places on the 

 coast, covered with snow. — W. S. Florence, Jan. 2. 1830. 



The District between Ling and SaUzburg in Bavaria. — I hope when you 

 next visit the Continent you will be able to take in and give us an account 

 of the district between Ling and Saltzburg, which (the Tyrol excepted) 

 pleased me far more than any other portion of our summer's tour of 2000 

 miles, partly from the natural beauties of the country itself, which much 

 of the way resembled a drive through an English park, but chiefly on 

 account of the universal marks of prosperity exhibited by the houses of the 

 peasants, which were so gaily painted, their gardens so trim, and every thing 

 around so neat and orderly, the very dunghills, when in front of the houses 

 (which they rarely are), being concealed with a wall and top of neat boards, so 

 as to present a delightful proof of well-being and comfort, the cause of which 

 I should have liked much to have investigated, if my health would have 

 allowed. [No man has a house in Bavaria without land attached.] This 

 enquiry, I trust, you will some time or other devote a few days to in passing 

 to Vienna ; and I only wish it were possible for you to spend six months 

 every year in viewing and explaining a thousand other interesting points of 

 Continental rural and domestic economy, of which books of travels, all 

 filled with endless repetition of descriptions of churches and palaces, and 

 almost always false descriptions, give not the slightest hint, and of which it 

 is incredible how little is known in England, considering the cart-loads of 

 travels that the last twenty years have produced. 



We thought of wintering at Rome, but having met with (for Italy) a 

 very good school for my two sons, who are fast getting to speak Italian as 

 fluently as they do French and German, and having besides stumbled on 

 delightful lodgings, a first story of ten rooms looking in part on a large 

 convent garden, and behind on the large Jardin Anglais of the Marquis (t 

 forget his name), we shall remain here for at least a month or two longer: 

 Yours, &c. — W. S. Florence, Jan. 2. 1830. 



HOLLAND. 



Mr. Knight's Visit to Haarlem. — Mr. Knight of the Exotic Nursery, 

 King's Road, spent a fortnight in the bulb district, in April last, and was 

 very much gratified with his visit. He had been in Holland and the Ne- 

 therlands several times before, but never during the blooming of the hya- 

 cinths. He saw, he supposes, upwards of 100 acres covered with this plant 

 in bloom, commencing on the road from Leyden to Haarlem, five or six 



