Domestic Notices : — England, 337 



Wdttsia, Nat. Ord. Cacti ? — Dr. Hamilton of Plymouth has named a 

 plant in honour of his zealous and patriotic friend, Edward Watts, Esq., the 

 British consul at Carthagena. Dr. Hamilton describes the plant as a 

 thorny shrub, with fleshy leaves like those of Peresk?'« aculeata. He has 

 sent us some seeds which we have given to pur neighbour, Mr. Campbell, 

 curator of the Comte de Vandes's botanical establishnjAKhere. — Cond. 



The Stem of a Moss Rose, planted in a pot, with ompshoot, containing 

 roses with fhe calyx and footstalks covered with moss in the usual way, 

 and another without any moss whatever, was sent us July 9th last year, 

 by Mr. Ramsay, nurseryman, Chelsea. Such anomalies occur occasionally. 

 4Mr. Peacock of Edinburgh, it is said, can produce moss roses at pleasure. 

 — Cond. ^ 



AlstrcemmsL Shnsu, and other species. — Mr. Sweet has now a plant of 

 A. Sims« that has stood several winters with no other protection than a 

 single mat thrown over the bed in severe weather ; it flowered and seeded 

 last summer, and has stood this winter so well, that it is now about 4 in. 

 high, and has already thrown up sixteen strong shoots. A. hirtella has also 

 stood out several years, flowering and ripening its seeds every year ; he has 

 also had out this winter, A. Flos Martini and A. Hooken, both of which 

 have stood the winter well, and are now growing freely. (British Floiuer- 

 Garden, for April, 1830.) 



Cdlla cetkiopica has remained throughout the winter in a pond in the 

 garden here, and is now in flower. The water was frozen over 'with very 

 thick ice for more than a week this winter ; but, as the plant was about a 

 foot and a half beneath the surface, the root was not injured : it was only 

 placed in the pond last summer (1828) by way of trial. — W. Quail, Gar- 

 dener. Esthwaite Lodge, near Hawkeshead, July 19. 1829. 



Yellow and White Water Lilies, together with the flowering rush, would 

 add much to the beauty of the water in St. James's Park and Kensington 

 Gardens ; if you would suggest the thing in either of your Magazines, I 

 have no doubt it would be adopted. — J. M — s. May 1. 1830. 



Quite the contrary; it is in the nature of things that those who are in 

 power founded in the monopoly of the few against the many, and hence 

 conscious of being looked on with a scrutinising eye by the discerning part 

 of the public, should reject whatever would imply in the slightest degree 

 their unfitness for possessing this power. If the parties whose business it 

 is to attend to or ornament the parks should determine on planting water 

 lilies in consequence of this hint, they will at least wait a year or two till 

 it can appear to be done of their own accord. Exactly this course took 

 place in the case of the men's lodges to the doors in Kensington Gardens, 

 which were put up just about two years after we had suggested the idea in 

 No. II. of this Magazine. The plants in the Chiswick garden are now 

 naming, as we recommended in our Second Volume. Nature has provided 

 obstinacy and indifference, as means of self-defence for those who cannot 

 otherwise resist the attacks of reason. — Cond. 



Gooseberry Shoivs of 1829. — Sixteen new sorts of gooseberries have been 

 named and produced at the different gooseberry shows during the present 

 year : five red, six yellow, three green, and two white, raised from seed. 

 The following is a correct list of the four classes of gooseberries ; I have 

 selected six of the heaviest berries in each class, with the name of the per- 

 son and place where they were exhibited : — 



Red. Lion, 25 dwts., Mr. Fardon, Woodstock ; Companion, a seedling, 

 24- dwts. 19grs., Mr. Hoopley, Wybunbury; Huntsman, 21 dwts. 20 grs., 

 Mr. Denerley, Cheetham Hill; Sir John, 21 dwts. 16 grs., Mr. Pose, Newark 

 upon Trent; Top Sawyer, 21 dwts. 6 grs., Mr. Spencer, Derby; Statesman, 

 21 dwts. 3 grs., Mr. Chesworth, Nantwich. 



Yellow. Leader, 22 dwts. 17 grs., Mr. Lovart, Nantwich; Gunner, 20 

 dwts. 19 grs., Mr. Brooks, Didsbury; Bonny Roger, 20 dwts. 10 grs., Mr. 

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