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PART III. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. Foreign Notices. 



FRANCE. 



MeTROSide 1 'ros Lophanta grows well in the open air at Oro, near Dax, in 

 the department of Landes. It produces abundance of flowers, ripens seeds, 

 and, as there are plenty of birds in the neighbourhood, there is no reason 

 why it should not be naturalised as well as the fig, the olive, and the mul- 

 berry, which spring up in the woods of the South of France. {Bui. Un.) 



GERMANY. 



Brugmdnsia candida,Pers. Datura arborea, Lin. (Vol.II.jfg.44.p.l46). This 

 plant, though anativeof New Granada, isvery hardy, and will flower remark- 

 ably well in the open air, if treated in the same manner as geraniums, fuchsias, 

 dahlias, or Erythrina crista galli. It is easily injured by moisture, but it will 

 bear a cold of 25° Fahrenheit ; it requires an exceedingly rich soil, and, as 

 the flowers and leaves are large, a sheltered situation. In the Botanic Gar- 

 den of Pappelsdorf are two plants, four years from cuttings, which have 

 been every year plunged in the soil of the open garden in May, and taken 

 up again in November. They bloom twice a year, in July and in the begin- 

 ning of October, and one of them has produced 153 blossoms at the first 

 flowering, and 79 at the second. {Sinning, in Prus. Hort. Trans. $• M. R. 

 Ap. 2.) — There can be no doubt a great many deciduous exotics might be 

 treated in this manner with advantage j and, as we have before observed 

 (p. 358.), wherever there are any spare house-plants, they should be tried out 

 of doors. In large establishments, a plot of ground laid out as a parterre 

 might be annually devoted to this purpose. The effect would be splendid 

 and interesting for a great portion of the belle season, and the object in view 

 most useful. 



ITALY. 



The imperial Villa at Monza was built by the Archduke Ferdinand of 

 Austria, in 1777. It is situated on a gentle declivity, between the town of 

 Monza and the Briaura hills, and the river Lambro runs through the park. 



The Gardens of Monza surround three sides of the palace. On the 

 east side they are laid out as pleasure-ground, after the manner of Eng- 

 lish landscape-gardening ; in this part is a small piece of water, with several 

 cascades. Among the exotic trees are some cedars of Lebanon, and a 

 shrubbery composed of the Magnolia grandiflora, some specimens of which 

 have attained a great height. On the south side is the botanic garden, 

 which is filled with exotic plants from all parts of the world, arranged in 

 systematic order. The hot-houses, which are very numerous, are placed 

 in this division of the garden. The north side is occupied by fruit trees 

 chiefly oranges and lemons, and by the pine stoves. 



