232 Notes on some London Nurseries, 



20, 21, 21, and the stoutest of them are, in the middle, as thick as a full- 

 sized cedar pencil, and the longest of them slightly beyond four inches 

 long. If the C. coelestis be grown in a dry border, a yard or so from the 

 base of a southern wall, and some of the numerous seeds which it will 

 ripen allowed to fall, these will remain unhurt in the soil through the 

 winter, and germinate spontaneously late in the following spring : so ex- 

 perience has taught J. 1). 



The common Mignonette (Ileseda odorata) groiun to a remarlcable Size. — 

 Some one of your correspondents enquires (Vol. VIII. p. .374.) about tree 

 mignonette. What is wanted with tree mignonette ? The common may be 

 grown to any height required, or at least to any reasonable height. We have 

 it here from four to ten feet high. I have now a plant of the latter height, 

 in one of Bailley's iron-roofed conservatories, which he erected here five 

 years ago. The plant is quite a pyramid, about eight feet in circumfer- 

 ence at its base, and tapers to the top, and forms a'perfect mass of flowers. 

 — J. Ellcs, Palace Gardens, Atnnagh, Dec. 2. 1832. 



A Prize of a Sovereign for the best Dish of Tubers of O'xalis crenata 

 Jacq., the growth of 18.33, was offered by the Devon and Cornwall Hor- 

 ticultural Society, at their anniversary meeting, on February 6th, in con- 

 sequence of Mr. Mitchell's information on this plant, supplied in our last 

 (p. 78.). The prize was offered to excite to its introduction into, and cul- 

 tivation in, that neighbourhood, where it scarcely or not at all exists at 

 present. Dr. Hamilton, the distinguished secretary of the above society, 

 has written to us to put him in the train for the acquisition of a tuber, or 

 some tubers, of the plant, even " if a single tuber so small as to come 

 under a frank." We know not how we can better do this than by pub- 

 lishing his wish, and leaving the matter open to any one who has a tuber 

 or tubers to spare, or may choose to exhibit for the prize offered. Dr. 

 Hamilton's address is, 14. Oxford Place, Plymouth. — Cond. 



Art. II. Notes on some of the London Nurseries, and on the 

 Chisvoick Garden. 



Several foreign nurserymen have visited London this spring, and some 

 of them have given considerable orders. One of the Messrs. Booth, of the 

 Flotbeck nurseries, near Hamburgh, has been here all the winter. Mr. 

 Thorburn, Jun., of New York, has been for some months in this country, 

 and has made large purchases. From one firm he took upwards of 5000 

 fruit trees. At Messrs. Colvill's he selected some of the most rare and 

 high-priced stove and green-house plants, and even some of the largest 

 specimens of the high-priced kinds. Nothing can be more gratifying to lis 

 than to see this renewed intimacy between the American and British 

 nurserymen, because we feel assured it will lead to the advantage of both 

 countries ; not only directly, by reciprocal commercial benefits, but remotely 

 and permanently, by making the two nations better acquainted with, and 

 more dependent upon, each other. Were the mass of society, in every 

 nation, well acquainted with the mass of society in every other nation, the 

 whole world would become, as it were, brethren; and it would not be 

 possible for the governments of different countries to wage war against 

 each other. The Americans and the British, at least as far as respects 

 the gardening and horticultural world, have had very little connection 

 with each other, since the breaking out of the first French revolution. 

 Since that period, and until very lately, the Americans obtained almost 

 all their garden seeds from France, as well as what fruit trees they required 

 from Europe. About the end of the last century large importations of 

 fruit Ivees were made from France to Montreal, from which nearly the 



