Domestic Notices : — E?igla?id. S35 



is very superior to all other plans hitherto adopted. It may be applied both 

 for top and bottom heat, to any denomination of houses, pits, or frames 

 where artificial heat is required ; and, by its use, a complete command of 

 temperature is obtained for every horticultural purpose. It is my intention 

 to have one for forcing melons, cucumbers, strawberries, sea-kale, rhubarb, 

 kidneybeans, mushrooms, asparagus, and plants in pots ; as 1 am certain that 

 much may be done by the machine where any nobleman or gentleman has an 

 extensive establishment for forcing." — Henry Dalgleish, Gardener to J. Mil- 

 ford, Esq., Coaver. Exeter, April 1. 1830. 



The table which accompanies Mr. Dalgleish's letter contains a register of 

 the temperature of the external atmosphere, and of the stove, as taken three 

 times a day during the months of January, February, and March. In Jan., 

 the temperature of the stove, in the evening, varied from 64° to 8 1 ° ; in the 

 morning, from 56° to 66°. In February, from 66° to 76° in the evening ; 

 and from 58° to 63° in the morning. In March, from 69° to 86° in the 

 evening ; and from 60° to 66° in the morning. The coldest day in January 

 was 26° in the morning, and 25° in the evening ; in February, 23° in the 

 morning, and 21° in the evening; in March, 34° in the morning, and 44° in 

 the evening. — Cond. 



Funds for General Education. — After an attentive perusal of the twenty- 

 two reports of the' commissioners of enquiry into our public charities, I do 

 not believe there is less than 1,000,000/. sterling which might be annually 

 available to objects of education and general utility, not a tithe of which is 

 so applied; whereas, by judicious measures, and at a trifling expense, a large 

 portion of this much abused and magnificent income might be redeemed. — 

 Speech of B. W. Harvey. (Times, Jan. 28. 1830.) 



Cytisns ~Laburnum fibre purpiireo. — Sir, I send you a Cytisus iaburnum 

 flore purpiireo ; it is a hybrid, and was obtained from seed of the C. .Labur- 

 num with the C. purpureus. I do not know by whom it was raised, only 

 that it was originated near Paris about five or six years ago. I have cul- 

 tivated it four years, and never flowered it till last year ; it also flowered 

 at the same time, and only then, at the nursery of M. Fremont, jun., 

 at Rouen, who. received the plant at the same time that I did. The leaves 

 of this Cytisus are exactly like those of the common laburnum, but a little 

 larger ; the branches are shorter, and do not shoot so rapidly as the labur- 

 num, but the flowers are of the same colour and a little larger than those of 

 the Cytisus purpureus ; its bunches are not pendent, but erect, and with 

 few flowers. The effect which this plant produces is much inferior to that 

 of the common laburnum ; but it forms a pretty variety, and a curious hybrid 

 for amateurs. I think, however, that when the tree gets older, and the 

 head becomes better furnished with branches, it will bear flowers more 

 abundantly than at present. 



Syringa vulgaris var. Charles X. I last year imported to this country 

 a new variety of the common lilac tree, called Charles X., raised some 

 years ago by M. Guillet, nurseryman at Versailles. Its wood is shorter and 

 larger than the common sort, the flower panicles are larger, shorter, and 

 extremely clustered ; the flowers are of a lilac colour, and redder than that 

 fine variety cultivated in France, under the name of d'Amboumay, which 

 was raised above forty years ago from seed by M. Oissel of Rouen. 



Two new Roses. I also send you two rose trees ; the one is the R. 

 sempervirens major, the flowers white and extremely double ; the other is 

 the Princesse de Nassau, obtained from seed in Paris, I believe, four years 

 ago, and a hybrid between the Muscat and the Noisette roses, partaking 

 most of the muscat. This last is also very double, from 2 to 2\ in. in dia- 

 meter, and a little yellowish in the centre. I have sold it in this country 

 for these two years past; it flowers abundantly from July to October and 

 November. 



The green-flowered Rose. I shall now say something about my green 



