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The Irish Yew, Furze, and Broom. — " Sir, — Relative to the Irish yew, 

 furze, and broom, to which you directed my attention m the Gardener s 

 Magazine (p. 241.), I have to inform you that they can all be had in abund- 

 ance at the nursery of Mr. John Harvey, Comber, near Belfast. In a letter 

 I had from him, dated March the 9th, he says, « I presume the upright yew, 

 as we call it, is what Mr. Loudon means by the Irish yew. If so, I think 1 

 have more good plants of it than any other individual m the kingdom, and 

 could send a parcel to London by the steamer any week. I have the woolly 

 poded broom, and very woolly it is. I call it free broom, from its rapid and 

 great growth, assuming quite the appearance of a tree. I have had it grow 

 here from the seed in four years fifteen feet high, covering a large space, 

 and the stems as thick as my arm.' _. 



" I have no doubt but Mr. Robertson of Kilkenny is well supplied with 

 the above plants, but I have not yet had the pleasure of seeing his establish- 

 ment although it has been long pre-eminent for variety and quantity. 

 Toole Simpson, Grimwood, and Livingstone of Dublin, the Ballybeg Nur- 

 sery, Reams of Dundalk, and Lindsay of Belfast, are celebrated for ever- 

 greens ; but the remote part of the country to which for these eighteen 

 months I have been confined, prevents me speaking particularly as regards 

 their present stock. 



" The Irish yew is properly called the Florence-court yew, from its 

 having been originally found there. Florence- court is the seat of the Earl 

 of Enniskillen, in the county of Fermanagh. When I last called there, 

 (about three years ago) my friend, Mr. William Young, the gardener, 

 pointed out the mother plant in a shrubbery near the Court. The furze is 

 named in collections Ulex Europae'us, var. stricta : it is said to be peculiar 

 to the county of Down. Mr. Harvey, the nurseryman just mentioned, 

 pointed out to me one of its habitats adjoining Mount Stewart, the seat of 

 the Marquis of Londonderry. — Yours truly, 



n " Ja. Fraser." 



Art. III. Horticultural Society and Garden. 



Regent Street, March 6. — Read, a paper by Mr. William Stothart, one 

 of the under-gardeners at Chiswick, on the mode of forcing rhubarb, as prac- 

 tised there. The seed is sown in rich soil the beginning of April. The plants 

 are allowed sufficient room to attain a considerable size during the summer, 

 and in autumn, when they have began to leave off* growing, they are taken 

 up and potted in pots not much larger than what are sufficient to hold the 

 roots, and two, three, or more, put in a pot according to its size. They are 

 then placed in a shady situation, till they are removed to the forcing house. 

 This is, perhaps, as easy a mode of growing and forcing rhubarb as any in 

 practice. A great advantage of raising the plants from seed is, that the 

 roots being more like those of carrots than the roots of plants obtained by 

 division, several of them can be got into one pot; the buds are also 

 stronger. Mr. Knight has shown {Hort. Trans, vol. hi. and E.ofG.§ 4024.) 

 that very little earth is necessary in the pot. The provision for the leaves 

 being already in the roots, only requires heat and water for its developement. 



Exhibited. A new seedling Camellia, from the Comte de Vande's garden 

 at Bayswater, the colour that of the Waratah, but darker ; also some other 

 Camellias, and a plant of the White Primula sinensis. A dried specimen 

 of the Rose of Jericho, from A. B. Lambert, Esq., is worthy of notice. The 

 plant which bears this name is one of the Crucife'ras, nearly allied to Thlaspi, 



