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said, possess considerable merit. We should like to see the whole of them ; 

 and this gratification their authors might easily afford us, by sending us tracings 

 and descriptions. — Cond. 



The Colony at Lindfield is flourishing : we have now six cottages for labour- 

 ers, with an acre and a quarter of land, which we let for 3s. a week each ; we 

 have six more with the same quantity of land at 2s. 6d. a week each ; and other 

 «ix with still the same quantity of land, at 2s. a week ; that is, eighteen in all. 

 Besides those, we have seven cottages more, with from five to six acres of land 

 attached to each ; all tenanted, and going on well. The school farm, culti- 

 vated mostly by the boys, is also in excellent order. — Wm. Allen. Paradise 

 Roiv, 2Mh of the third month {March), 1834. 



The Milford Nursery. — We all went out to call on Mr. Young, agreeably 

 to your recommendation, and were highly gratified. Mr. Penny is a most 

 interesting person, enthusiastically devoted to botany, and evidently hoping 

 and believing that he will be able to make this nursery the first in the 

 world. Mr. Webb, the proprietor, gives them every encouragement, and they 

 tell us that he has promised to open a correspondence for them with the prin- 

 cipal nurseries and botanic gardens on the Continent ; independently of the 

 seeds, which he will, of course, send to Milford in preference to any where else. 



You are no doubt aware that Mr. Webb, assisted by M. Bertholet and 

 Decandolle, is about to publish a flora of the Canary Isles, and that many 

 of the plants which will appear in that flora are already at Milford, though 

 their names have not been published. We found Messrs. Young and Penny 

 sowing a large collection of seeds collected by Brotero and others, in South 

 America, which had been sent them by Mr. Webb, and many of the seeds 

 which you sent (p. 170.) are already up. They have just finished building a 

 green-house 100 ft. long, a pit of the same length, a stove 50 ft. in length, and 

 a turf pit 360 ft. long, and 6 ft. wide, exclusively devoted to fine specimens 

 from the Canaries, Teneriffe, Madeira, and South America. We saw in it 

 some fine statices, alstrcemerias, mahonias, berberis, &c. They are preparing 

 a border about 500 yards in length, and 9 ft. in width, in which to display 

 their more choice herbaceous plants and flowering shrubs ; and, as to trees, 

 you are aware what an extent their arboretum occupies. All this, we take 

 it upon us to state from recollection chiefly, but the following list of plants in 

 flower was given us in writing by Mr. Penny : — Cineraria cena, Ononis pe- 

 duncularis, Taxanthema puberula, .Lotus spectabilis, Cytisus tetragonocladus 

 (a new species, allied to C. canadensis, both fragrant), Scrophularia elongata, 

 Sempervivum cruentum, .Euphorbia atropurpiirea, Lavatera acerifolia, Fiola 

 pulmonensis.— S., W., and E., M. Guildford, March 23. 1834. 



Scions of a new seedling Pear, which we have called Haydon's seedling, 

 have been sent us by a correspondent of that name, residing at Mount Radford, 

 near Exeter. The seed was sown in 1823, and the tree is now a standard, 

 16 ft. high. The fruit is ripe about the middle of October, and is remarkable 

 for its luscious sweetness, but it does not keep. It began to bear in its ninth 

 year, and appears to produce abundantly. This fruit has twice obtained a 

 prize. — Sam. Hay don. Mount Radford Terrace, near Exeter, March 19. 1834. 



We have sent the scions to the Horticultural Society's garden, and shall be 

 glad to taste the fruit, when the season for doing so arrives. — Cond. 



SCOTLAND. 



f Woodhall Gardens, Renfreivshire. — On calling here, during a short tour 

 which I lately made, I was agreeably surprised to find that, in addition to the 

 gardener's lodge or shed, in which with the rest of the young men I cooked 

 my victuals andslept some years ago, a good-sized room was built, well lighted, 

 with a good fireplace, and fitted up with writing-desks, tables, and book- 

 shelves. There is a lobby between this and the cooking-room, so that the 

 noise produced in that room, by those who do not read, is not heard in the 

 reading-room. This last circumstance I consider an important one. A room 



similar to this at Woodhall is wanted in almost every garden in Scotland 



Juvenxs. Glasgow, March, 1834. 



