98 Domestic Notices : — E7igland. 



exterior to the site ; while on front of it, to the south and south-east, is 

 spread out one of the finest landscapes in the central counties. Lord 

 Calthorpe has granted a lease of the land for 99 years at 100/. per annum, 

 which may be considered a moderate rent for land so near a rapidly 

 increasing town. The curator of this garden was to have been chosen on 

 January 10.; its honorary secretaries are John Darwall, M.D., and Thomas 

 Knott, jun. — Cond. 



Heating by hot Water. — The Camellia houses at Messrs. Chandler's 

 nursery exhibit a beautiful specimen of Mr. Kewley's application of the 

 siphon principle; as do the indigo and other rooms at St. Katherine's 

 Docks, and the conservatories at the Colosseum, of the principle of Mr. 

 Weekes, as applied by Messrs. Walker. In the interior of the Colosseum 

 Mr. Cottam has exemplified his mode, and he has also just completed the 

 heating of a small hot-house in our garden ; while Mr. Walker has heated 

 our office to our no small comfort, in regard to warmth and freedom from 

 dust, "and to economy in the saving of the time consumed in stirring an 

 open fire, and in the article of fuel. — Cond. 



Lavender Hill Nursery, Wandsivorth Road, i\^oi'. 24. 18.30. — It is my 

 wish to establish at this nursery a depot for supplying the wants of bota- 

 nists and collectors of old books in this department, at a moderate expense ; 

 which are not easily obtained, especially by persons situated at a remote 

 distance from the metropolis. With this object in view, I am now ready to 

 receive commissions for the purchase or sale of this description of litera- 

 ture. — William Pamj)lin, jun. Lavender Hill Nursery, Wandsivorth Road, 

 Nov. 24. 1830. 



Traps for catching Larks. — The fowlers in our neighbourhood have 

 commenced taking larks with nets and a device glass of simple construction. 

 The bii'ds are of the kind known as hill or flight larks. A small bridge, 

 covered with a piece of glass, is by means of a draw-string made to revolve 

 rapidly, on a pivot, the rays of a rising sun falling on the glass. Such is the 

 strange infatuation of the birds, that, however distant, they immediately fly 

 towards it, and are either taken by clap-nets or shot, (Brighton Herald.) 



Pimlico Palace and Gardens. — Su", I had yesterday (Nov. 10. 1830) an 

 opportunity of walking through the grounds of the new palace at Pimhco ; 

 and I will trouble you with a few lines upon the subject, if you can find 

 room for their insertion. I saw these gardens in 1826, and was struck at the 

 time with the unhealthiness of the situation, and the tasteless distribution of 

 the earth excavated in order to form the piece of water. The garden-front 

 of the palace was then new, and brilliant white : what first struck me now 

 was its dark dingy appearance ; and yet, on expressing my regret at this to 

 my guide, he assured me that it had been cleaned, since its first erection, 

 twice, if not thrice. The same general appearance of scattered blocks of 

 stone, scaffolding, and enclosure poles exists as in 1826 ; a proof that the 

 building is not neai'ly finished even exteriorly. The conservatories are open 

 on the sides and ends; some richlj' sculptured vases have been placed on 

 the terrace parapet, but (which, to an architectural eye, is very offensive) 

 they are without plinths. The faults of the building may be summed up 

 under two heads : first, as a composition, it does not constitute a whole, 

 for want of a decidedly central form ; and secondl)^, that all the details, and 

 especially the doors and windows, are of vulgar forms and ordinary dimen- 

 sions. In short, the pile seems a heterogeneous assemblage of portions of 

 street houses, especially of those in Regent Street, and of the buildings 

 round the Regent's Park. 



The grounds or gardens have a common-place air, from the prevalence 

 of elm trees all over them. This air, though lessened, is by no means re- 

 moved by the clumps of rhododendrons and other shrubs which are dis- 

 tributed in different parts ; though, to do the gardener (Mr. Man) justice, 

 these clumps are well placed, and exceedingly well managed. The great 



