594 Domestic Notices : — England. 



picotees. Various new seedlings have bloomed for the first time. Mr. 

 Hogg has got an ingenious instrument for stamping out the cards for dress- 

 ing his flowers, which we shall figure and describe in an early Number. 



The Conservatories at the Colosseum may be said to be now completed, by 

 the addition of the marine grotto, so admirably got up under the direction 

 of Mr. Gray, whose merits, we are happy to find, are beginning to be appre- 

 ciated by those who have grounds to lay out, and rustic buildings to 

 execute, in the country. The marine grotto is certainly one of the most 

 extraordinary imitations of nature which we have ever seen, and we could 

 wish that it might lead to a new taste in laying out the gardens of sub- 

 urban coffee-houses. We expect a great deal, at no distant period, from 

 the gardens of all public establishments, from the common public-house 

 upwards; and we expect, also, that in time most villages and country 

 towns will have their public parks, their conservatories as magnificent as 

 that of the Duke of Northumberland or of the Earl of Shrewsbury, their 

 museums, colleges, libraries, &c. In short, whatever is now enjoyed, or 

 rather possessed, by a few, will soon be enjoyed by the many ; but this is 

 not the place to enlarge on coming changes, though, as society is always 

 progressing, if we did not occasionally look forward, we should very soon 

 find ourselves left behind. 



The Gardens of the Zoological Society, Regent's Park, are every season 

 improving. We only wish we could persuade the liberal and enlightened 

 secretary to have the more conspicuous plants handsomely named, as well 

 as the animals. What might not have been done for public taste, and the 

 ornament and intellectual improvement of- the metropolis, if the whole of 

 the Regent's Park had been one Arboretum and Botanic Garden ! We do 

 not mean a dug garden ; but merely that all sorts of hardy trees, shrubs, 

 and plants should have been introduced, and named, instead of the common 

 sorts that are now planted, or have sprung up naturally. Why not have 

 broad irregular patches of all the different sorts of grasses in the open park, 

 all the herbaceous plants which will grow under the partial shade of trees, 

 and all the other herbaceous plants among low shrubs, artificial rocks, or in 

 the waters ? Why not, indeed ? 



The Surrey Zoological Gardens are in a prosperous state, and reflect the 

 highest credit upon all concerned. Many of the botanical articles are there 

 named, as well as the zoological ones ; and a very elegant publication, en- 

 titled Illustrations of the Su?Tey Zoological Gardens, with beautiful drawings 

 of their finest animals, is now publishing in monthly parts. 



Mr. Groom's Garden, in the neighbourhood of the Surrey Zoological 

 Gardens, will be visited by every florist of taste ; and they will there see, 

 at this time, a new pea, which is expected to turn out a valuable addition 

 to our culinary legumes. 



The Gardens of the Beulah Spa have been kept up with great care and 

 taste, during the summer, under the direction of our intelligent and in- 

 dustrious correspondent, Mr. Pringle, who has just left the situation, and 

 who merits something a great deal better. We shall never consider Mr. 

 Pringle in a place suited to his abilities, till he is at the head of some public 

 botanic establishment, or a general manager of a gentleman's estate. 



The Primrose Hill Botanic Garden, mentioned in our last, p. 470., is 

 meeting with numerous supporters, and, we trust, will eventually be carried 

 into execution. A correspondent suggests that the circle in the centre of 

 the Regent's Park would be a much better situation. This was proposed 

 by us in the Mag. Nat. Hist, in 1828 ; and subsequently, by our ingenious 

 correspondent, C. M. Willich, Esq., in his plan for a metropolitan garden. 

 — Cond. 



A new Apparatus for heating by hot Water. — Sir, In the Gardener's 

 Magazine you have given descriptions of various methods of heating horti- 



