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gardening and botany. The extent of my grounds is about a hundred 

 acres ; sixty of which are devoted to nursery and botanic ground, and 

 shall contain every species of hardy plant that can be obtained. I have 

 got made 6000 bricks with a sloping top for naming them, which are 

 painted of a stone colour, and marked with black numbers, 2 in. long ; the 

 edges or angles of the brick being smoothed off. The numbers, when dry, 

 I shall varnish over. From sixteen years' experience, I consider these 

 bricks superior to every other label either of wood (wheel-spokes) or iron ; 

 as those I did sixteen years since are just as good now as when first done. 

 These brick tallies cost only 4^, per hundred making ; of course, not 

 painting or printing included, these being done by myself or my foreman. 



My land has been recently enclosed from the common, and is like 

 a blank sheet of paper. I have every thing to create on it, but have pro- 

 vided for the accomplishment of this object in a systematic manner by 

 a plan which I shall submit to you, together with that for my botanic 

 garden. My stock plants of fruit trees are from the London Horticultural 

 Society's gai'den, whose nomenclature I have adopted ; which, if generally 

 done by country nurserymen, would place them even in the scale with 

 the London growers. 



I shall feel obliged in your giving publicity to the above outlines, as I 

 may require to draw largely for plants on others professing the same 

 objects. 



I have been extensively engaged in planting (mostly by contract} for the 

 last sixteen or seventeen years, with the best success, and have some 

 observations and information to give on the subject, at a future date. 

 I am, Sir, &c. — William Rogers. Southampton Nur&ery, Feb. 2. 1831. 



Botanic Garden, Bury St. Edmimd's, — At p. 96. we noticed the change 

 in the site of this interesting establishment. Since that notice. Sir Thomas 

 Gery Cullum, Bart., F.L.S., &c., has purchased the old garden, and it is to 

 be converted into a cemetery on the plan of Pere la Chaise ; thus adding 

 yet another scene of interest to this already most beautiful town. The Mau- 

 soleum at present existing in the centre of the spacious churchyard at Bury, 

 foreshows the disposition of its wealthier inhabitants for ornamented places 

 of interment. This Mausoleum is a mound of earth, about 20 yards long 

 by 15 broad, in figure an ii'regular oval, and enclosed with iron palisades. 

 Immediately within these is a gravel walk, and next this a border of 

 shrubs and flowers, with here and there a tree ; one of these, a weeping 

 ash, appropriately overhangs an urn, which surmounts a tomb. This border 

 is bounded at the back by a tall wall well covered with ivy, except where 

 the tablets and monuments fixed in it display themselves ; these are rather 

 numerous, and excite, by their various inscriptions, the sympathies of many 

 a gazing traveller. Some lines by BuUen the grammarian on a chUd 

 struck dead by lightning while in the act of saying its prayers receive 

 much attention, and those by Smyth on his friend Dr. Hague, late Pro- 

 fessor of Music at Cambridge, who is buried here, are very beautiful. The 

 area within the wall is occupied by vaults (some of them above ground), 

 and by trees, as the horsechestnut, the Lombardy poplar (male), the 

 acacia, and others; while growing out of the upper part of the wall, at 

 the western end of the area, is a plant, large enough to bear fruit annually, 

 of the white-berried elder. The group formed by the blending branches 

 of these trees, the tall wall mantled and crested with the dark-green ivy, 

 the white faces of the monuments contrasting finely with its deep verdure, 

 and the cincture of shrubs and flowers encircling all, are objects which the 

 imagination of every reader or beholder will separate, combine, or beautify 

 in the manner most agreeable. — J. D. March 10. 1831. 



Public Cemetery, — A public cemetery is proposed to be formed in the 

 neighbourhood of Plymouth, similar to that at Liverpool in point of 



