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both accounts are probably correct, if I rightly understood 

 Mr. Sabine's remark ; but, as there has been another import- 

 ation, the female may be in the country ; and the examination 

 of the Lombardy poplars about St. Osyth, if any still exist 

 there, would determine this question. As it blooms in the end 

 of March and early part of April, perhaps some of your readers 

 in the neighbourhood will examine the blossoms, and settle 

 this point. 



Having, however, since learned where the female exists, I 

 would record the place in your Magazine, that all who desire 

 it may procure it thence. It is at the university botanic gar- 

 den at Gottingen; M. Christopher Abraham Fischer, the 

 inspector of which, in reply to an application for it from Mr. 

 N. S. Hodson, superintendent of the botanic garden at Bury 

 St. Edmunds, remarks, in a letter dated Dec. 16. 1828: — 

 " Many years since, I looked fruitlessly for the female of Pb- 

 pulus dilatata, amongst many thousand trees, all round Got- 

 tingen. Last year I was so fortunate as to find a single tree, 

 and send you some cuttings." These cuttings, although 

 planted as soon as received, and duly attended to, all failed ; 

 but, as poplars are notorious for freedom of growth, this 

 should not deter from other importations : and in proof that 

 no one need fear troubling M. Fischer, I subjoin an extract 

 from one of his letters, dated Dec. 20. 1826 : — "It is always 

 very pleasant to me to see, in the Botanical Magazine, that I 

 am so fortunate as sometimes to send a new plant to England, 

 to a country which, from my short visits there, I very much 

 like and esteem." Mr. J. Hunneman, I have no doubt, will 

 readily forward any communication to M. Fischer. 



I am, Sir, &c. 

 Feb. 1830. John Denson, Jun. 



Art. XL Account of the Botanic Flower- Garden now forming at 

 Trelowarren for the Culture of Hardy Plants. By Mr. William 

 Duncan, Gardener there. 



Sir, 

 The object of this garden connects itself not only with the 

 study of the vegetable world, but with an endeavour to 

 infuse a scientific knowledge of plants into the empirical agri- 

 culture of the community amongst which it is situated. It is 

 intended to become a nursery for the developement of all 

 those plants which are eligible for agricultural economy, by 

 which it will operate on those who seek it for its practical use, 



