330 Domestic Notices : — England. 



Netlam, Tory, and Colin M'Kenzie, Esq., were elected members. — X.Y. 

 July 17. 1829. 



Botanic Garden, Bath, Jamaica, March, 1829. — The following plants 

 have been received by Thomas Higson, Esq., the curator from St. Anne's, 

 Trinidad, as extracted from Mr. Lockhart's letter of March 16. : — Piper 

 nigrum ; I'nga, species scarlet-flowered ; Jasminum undulatum ; Lecythis 

 coccinea ; Cassia, species Caraccas ; Piper Belle ; Rosa odorata, new ; -Mes- 

 pilus japonica ; Punica Granatum var. album ; Flaeourti«, species excellent, 

 native fruit; Posahumilis; Bigndnia ophthalmia; Pol ygala, species Caraccas; 

 7'xia sinensis ; Strophanthus dichotomus ; Sorba, native of St. Vincent, 

 their mangosteen ; Jmomum exscapum, two varieties ; Picus elastica, cut- 

 ting ; together with four nutmeg plants. Two of them are natural, and two 

 are females, one of which is inarched and the other a layer. Another box 

 has been received, which contains four layer plants of natural nutmeg, and 

 cuttings of the Sklix Humboldtz'«M«, which I hope will succeed, and be an 

 ornament to Bath garden. I have found the nutmegs grown best in the 

 shade or virgin land. If irrigation can be adopted during the dry season, 

 it would be a great convenience, as watering is absolutely necessary. When 

 the trees are in fruit, they show the want of water, by the skin of the fruit 

 shrivelling ; which symptom will require double the quantity of water, and 

 perhaps fail, after all, to bring the fruit to perfection. We have now several 

 trees in fruit in this garden, and some of them may mature 1000 fruit : 1200 

 were taken from one tree last year. The black pepper, a climbing plant, 

 also delights in a shady and rich loamy soil. The Erythrina Corallodendrum 

 is an excellent plant for it to run up ; it also requires water in the dry sea- 

 son. The Guinea pepper grows in the shade or virgin land, and is in flower 

 in March ; after which, to the rainy season, the fruit is maturing ; water is 

 necessary to perfect then pods. I have sent three plants of a supposed 

 Flacourti«, as it is a dioecious plant, that you may have a chance of fruit. 

 The loquat grows to a handsome tree, and the fruit is said to be good. The 

 elastic fig grows to a very large spreading tree : one planted in this garden, 

 in 1821, spreads 25 paces in diameter. The sorba is a fruit which has been 

 cultivated in the botanic garden at St. Vincent for several years, and called 

 there the mangosteen. I found other species of the same genus in Deme- 

 rara, St. Vincent, and Trinidad, all of which resemble most the Xantho- 

 chymus pictorius, and may probably belong to the same genus when better 

 known."— X Y. July 6. 1822. 



The Importation of Castor Oil from the West Indies seems to be increasing. 

 If that most unjust tax of 3d. per lb., which is equal to a charge of 22/. on 

 the ton, were removed, there is no doubt it would become an object of 

 great commercial importance, besides being a cheap article of the greatest 

 medicinal value to the poor. But so the poor, colonial agriculture, and the 

 manufacture of England are treated. — X. Y. July 17. 1829. 



Art. III. Domestic Notices. 

 ENGLAND. 



^ HARDY Plants generally treated as Green-house.— Ackcia, armata, Calceo- 

 laria rugosa, Commelina tuberosa, Hippocrepis balearica, and Fuchs/a gra- 

 cilis I have found sufficiently hardy to stand our winters, though they are 

 generally treated as green-house plants. — J. D. London, Jan. 19. 1830. 



List of Plants sent to England, in the ship Rose, from the port Oratava, 

 Teneriffe, May, 1829, by P. B. Webb, Esq., to his gardener, Win. Youno-, 

 Milford House, near Godalming, Surrey : — 



