Domestic Notices. — Scotland. 1 1 



dener found, upon trial, that the slates succeeded much better in bringing 

 them forward than either the tiles or the bricks. We have also seen some 

 very rich clusters of grapes raised, at Carmyle House, in the open air, 

 without the least assistance from artificial heat. — {Glasgow Herald.) 



Walnuts. — We were this day (Oct. 2.) shown some walnuts completely 

 matured, and equal to any English or foreign fruit we ever saw. They were 

 grown in East Lothian, and the trees from which they were gathered were 

 literally covered with fruit. It is a rare thing to see this fruit ripen here in 

 any season, but to have it so early as the end of September, is certainly 

 unparalleled. — {Scotsman.) 



Walnuts and Chesnuts grew and ripened this season in the open air in 

 several places in the Highlands, particularly at Castle Menzies. — ( Scots 

 Times.) 



Huge Pear. — A pear of the Bell tongue variety was pulled the other 

 day at Terraughty, Dumfries-shire, which is 16| inches in circumference at 

 one place, and. 12-£ at another. Its weight is "exactly 27 oz., and we are 

 not sure that a larger pear was ever seen or heard of in Scotland. — {Bum- 

 fries Courier.) 



Lemna, or Duck's Meat . — • This singular genus is rarely seen in flower 

 in any part of Britain, and indeed its flowers were very long a desideratum 

 in the botanical world. L. gibba had been seen in flower, we believe, in 

 England only by Mr. Borrer of Henfield, Sussex, who observed it at Lewis ; 

 till last summer Dr. Greville observed, on the 24th of July, both L. gibba 

 and L. minor in flower in great abundance in the ditch at the west end of 

 Duddingston Loch. — {Dr. Breivster's Jour. Oct. p. 377.) 



Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, IQth Sept. 1826. — The following list of 

 rare plants, which have flowered here during the last three months, was 

 communicated by Dr. Graham to Jameson's Philosophical Journal : 



Asclepias tuberosa, flowered in the open border, in front of one of the 

 stoves. Banksia asmula, flowering very freely in the greenhouse ; the young 

 branches and leaves are covered with a rusty pubescence. Callicarpa cana, 

 raised from seed sent by Dr. Wallich from India in 1 823, and marked 

 " Nepaul ;" it has been kept in the stove. 



Campanula dichotoma, and grandiflora. Capparis spinosa, Caper bush, 

 in the open border, in front of one of the stoves. Commelina cyanea. 

 Draba alpina j8 siliculas pilosas. Br. Supplement to Appendix of Captain 

 Parry's first voyage. The seeds of this and several other arctic plants were 

 given to Professor Graham by Mr. Fisher, after Captain Parry's second 

 voyage. Some of the plants could not be preserved after they had ger- 

 minated ; but this is fully established. 



Glycine mollis. Irisverna. Ixoraincarnata. Lobelia corymbosa. (Hook. 

 Exot. Flor.) Lonicera flexuosa. Lotus decumbens. (Sm. Engl. For.) L, 

 minor, Bishop, in Edin. Phil. Journal, Jan. 1826. "This plant we had from 

 Mr. Bishop himself, and I cannot hesitate in considering it the L. decum- 

 bens of Smith." 



Magnolia grandiflora, flowered freely on the open wall. Martynia pro- 

 boscidea : the seeds were brought from Mexico by Mr. Mair, and the plant 

 is ripening fruit. Musa sapientum. Nelumbium speciosum. Nicotiana 

 vincaeflora. 



Nymphaea alba, var. canadensis. This is easily distinguished from the 

 European plant by the longer divisions of the stigma, by the very unequal 

 calyx, by the outer petals being green on the outside, and by the rounded 

 overlapping lobes of the leaves. A. nuphar, from Canada, also flowered in 

 the pond this season. It seemed certainly new ; but no memoranda having 

 been taken at the time, little can be said, except that the flowers very 

 nearly resembled the N. advena, while the habit of the plant was that of 

 the N. lilted ; the leaves are not raised above the surface of the water. Both 



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