62 Domestic Notices : — Ireland. 



which the most extensive manufacturers in the kingdom, we believe, are Messrs. 

 Cottam and Hallen, of Winsley Street, Oxford Street. — Cond. _ 



Horticultural Garden at Edinburgh. — A certain sum is to be given annually 

 by government, under certain conditions, to improve this garden. (Scotsman, 

 Dec. 21. 1833.) 



Botanic Garden at Edinburgh. — The sum of 8000/. is expected to be granted 

 by Parliament, next session, for the completion of the Edinburgh Botanic 

 Garden. (Scotsman, Dec. 21. 1833.) 



Agricultural Museum. — Professor Low, the scientific teacher of agriculture 

 in the University of Edinburgh, has long been engaged in forming, at his own 

 private expense, an agricultural museum ,• and we are most happy to learn, 

 from the Scotch newspapers, that government has lent pecuniary aid to so 

 useful an undertaking. Whether any exhibition of the kind instituted by 

 Messrs. Drummond at Stirling, and followed by Mr. Lawson of Edinburgh, 

 and Messrs. Dickson and Turnbull of Perth, is to be combined with this 

 museum, we have not learned ; but we are most happy to see the government 

 of the country taking an interest in such national objects. We hope the time 

 is not far distant when a sum will be advanced to complete the Thames tunnel, 

 and another to establish the Horticultural Society's garden at Chiswick on a 

 permanent footing. If this is not done by government, we hope that, when 

 the metropolis and its environs are put under one system of self-government, 

 they will have a metropolitan garden, either at Chiswick or elsewhere, worthy 

 of the first city in the world, and open to all its citizens. — Cond. 



In the Western Counties, the damage done to plantations from the violent 

 gales of December exceeds anything of the like nature which has occurred 

 during the last 20 years. Every landed proprietor complains of serious loss 

 from this cause, and it seems not improbable that home timber will fall in 

 price from the extraordinary quantity of it thrown on the market. At Castle 

 Kennedy, near Stranraer, the residence at one time of the great Lord Stair, 

 and where the trees were planted in sections, squadrons, and lines, after 

 the order of some of his battles, the wind has demolished what the axe- 

 man had been long taught to spare,- and this is merely a specimen of what 

 has taken place at least all over this part of Scotland. (Dumfries Courier^) 



IRELAND. 



Gardening and Agricultural Improvements appear to have received a new 

 stimulus in several of the Irish counties. We arrive at this conclusion from 

 the accounts of newly formed societies, and superior productions, which we 

 see in the Irish country papers sent to us ; and also from the success which 

 has attended the publication of an Irish Farmer and Gardener's Magazine. 

 We have also been informed, both by a Dublin bookseller and by some 

 of our publishers in London, that a great number of our Encyclopaedia of 

 Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture have sold in Ireland. Our particular 

 friend James M'Lean, who has lately travelled through the country for com- 

 mercial purposes, assures vis that he has seen cottages erected between 

 Belfast and Newry on platforms in our manner ; but, Mr. M'Lean being no 

 architect, this information must be taken with due allowance. — Cond. 



Cuscuta nepalensis and PassipTbra edulis in Ireland. — Sir, Until the last week 

 of last month, I had a large plant of Cuscuta nepalensis in full flower upon 

 an olive planted against a south wall : it was a beautiful object, and most fra- 

 grant, before it was killed into its roots, which it was by the fall of the 

 thermometer to 25°. It had previously stood, with but little injury, two 

 nights of frost at 29°. From the depth the roots of Cuscuta penetrate into 

 woody plants, and its great vitality (which I have found from the difficulty of 

 eradicating it from some plants it had accidentally established itself upon), I 

 anticipate that it will retain its vitality over the winter, and will next year 

 " string its pearls again." Close to it, on the same wall, stands uninjured a 

 Passiflora edulis, with 12 fruits upon it nearly ripe, and some flowers expanded. 

 It has been only protected at night by a mat. — Robert Mallet. Capel Street, 

 Dublin, Dec. 1832. 



