460 Domestic Notices : — England. 



suppose irrigation gutters will be introduced, but that the water will be' 

 distributed by tubes of canvas, as at Admiral Tschitchigoff's at Sceau, or 

 by leather tubes, or, better still, copper ones, pierced with very small holes, 

 after the manner of the rain pipes at Messrs. Loddiges. By a little contri- 

 vance of main and subordinate tubes, all portable, and by a plug of supply 

 in every 10,000 square yards, the whole might be regularly, speedily, and 

 economically watered every evening after 10 o'clock. — Cond. 



The Tree Cabbage, ^rassica oleracea L. var. acdphala Dec. ; chou cava- 

 lier, chou a vaches, chou branchu, chou mille tetes Fr.; caulet Flem. {Bon 

 Jardinier, 1829, p. 251.). — The seeds of this cabbage, recently brought into 

 notice by Dr. Hamilton (Vol. III. p. 551. and supra p. 440. J, and which he 

 enabled us to distribute last year, have grown with great luxuriance in a 

 garden at Craven Hill, and in our own at Bayswater, and produced abund- 

 ance of seed, which will be oiFered for distribution. Two hundred and 

 fifty small packets will be left, in the first week of August, at 39. Pater- 

 noster Row, and delivered to such individuals as may call for them, leaving 

 their names and addresses; ten packets will be sent to the London Hor- 

 ticultural Society; ten to the Caledonian ; and fifty to Mr. Mackay, Trinity 

 College botanic garden, Dublin. — Cond. 



The finest Show of Geraniums which we have seen in any private collection 

 this season, was in a garden at Craven Hill, Bayswater. The circumstance 

 is worthy of particular notice, on account of the plants having been kept 

 all the winter in pits, without the aid of artificial heat of any description ; 

 but well covered up every night, aired in fine days, and never over-watered. 

 The gardener, Mr. Samuel Daniells, is most assiduously attentive, and has 

 been rewarded with the most gratifying success,' not only with geraniums, 

 but with the cow cabbage (supra): he is also orderly and systematic in his 

 operations, and weeds below the economic point (p. 372.). — Cond. 



The King of France's Head Kitchen-Gardener has lately been in this 

 country, to acquire a knowledge, from ocular inspection, of the mode of 

 heating hot-houses by hot water, and its application to the growth of the 

 pine-apple. After inspecting a number of gardensabout London, he ex- 

 pressed himself to us as most pleased with the phies in the Royal Forcing 

 Gardens, Kensington, and with the boilers and mode of applying the pipes 

 of Messrs. Cottam and Hallen. He reCoUects a hot-house at Malmaison 

 being heated by hot water about twenty years ago, but paid little attention 

 to the circumstance at the time, and belifi'^es it did not succeed. Never 

 heard of M. Bonnemain, nor knew that the hot-houses in the Jardin des 

 Plantes were heated by hot water, till the fact was pointed out to him in 

 the Gardener's Magazine. Found things in general here a little later than 

 at Paris, but not much ; not quite a fortnight, the difference of climate being 

 more perceptible at midsummer. — Cond. 



Cast-iron Pins with Eyes {Encyc. of Gard. § 1514. fig. 221.) have been 

 adopted in the Earl of Stradbrooke's garden, Ilentham Hall, for many 

 years with perfect success. The nails cost \5s. per thousand; the shoots 

 are tied to them with shreds of bass mat, and the walls are not disfigured 

 with holes for harbouring insects. — Geo. Fenn, jun. Becclcs Nursery, 

 Dec. 26. 1828. 



Saffron in England. — It is supposed by many persons that saffron is 

 grov/n for sale in the county of Essex. It was formerly cultivated to a 

 great extent near Saffron Walden, but has not been known there as an ar- 

 ticle of trade in the memory of the oldest inhabitant. A fev/ years ago a 

 man named Nott, living at Daxford, a village about six miles from Walden, 

 cultivated about half an acre of it, which gradually dwindled down to a few 

 rods, and about seven j'ears since the bulbs were purchased by a medical 

 gentleman at Saffron Walden, who planted them in his garden. This is 

 the last remains of the saffron of Saffron Walden, and there is no prospect 

 of its cultivation being renewed. — J. H, 



