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In thanking the Committee for having authorised Mr. Marnock to send us 

 the plans, we beg to congratulate them on their having met with so able a 

 curator. — Cond. 



A Society for encouraging Cottagers in the Cultivation of their Gardens has 

 been established at Trim ley in Surrey, chiefly, we believe, through the exertions 

 of Mr. Lance, the author of the Cottage Farmer. — Id. 



Dropmore, it is said, has beeu described, and illustrated with beautiful 

 engravings, in a work prepared under the direction of the late Lord Grenville 

 a short time before his death, and now printing for private distribution. We 

 hope some friend will procure us the sight of a copy. — Id. 



The Pantheon Bazaar, Oxford Street, for the sale of plants, &c, mentioned 

 p. 160., is now completed. It well merits the attention of the commercial 

 florists and nurserymen in the neighbourhood of the metropolis ; and we hope 

 it will at once serve as an outlet for a large portion of their produce, and as a 

 school for promoting a taste for flowers. — Id. 



Several Plans of Conservatories and other plant buildings have lately been 

 shown to us by Mr. Wm. Crosskill of the Beverley Foundery, constructed 

 almost entirely of cast iron. Considering the quantity of metal employed in 

 pilasters, architraves, cornices, &c, we were surprised at their cheapness ; but 

 we were most gratified by a mode of giving air by the sympathetic and instan- 

 taneous movement of valves. There is nothing new in the idea of doing this, 

 but it is seldom that we find it successfully carried into execution on a large 

 scale. The floor of a conservatory erected by Mr. Crosskill, for R. Bethel, 

 Esq., M.P., at Rose Park near Beverley, is entirely paved, with the exception 

 of openings 10 or 12 ft. apart every way, in which standard trees are planted. 

 Over the circle or square of earth round each tree, there is a cast-iron grating, 

 in two pieces, so as to fit into each side of the stem, for the purpose of 

 admitting air and water to the soil. In consequence of this arrangement, every 

 part of the conservatory may be used as a drawing-room, or promenade, like 

 the winter gardens of Berlin. (V. 251.} — Id. 



The Broad Walk in Kensington Gardens is now (April 30th), after theS3 

 genial rains, being harrowed up with Finlayson's harrow drawn by six horses. 

 After the gravel has been hand-picked from large stones, and made even with 

 rakes, it will be rolled by a very heavy horse roller, and will require no more 

 attention, except once or twice rolling, for a year or two. This may afford 

 a hint to gardeners, for the management of approach roads, where they are of 

 great extent. — Id. 



Mr. Samuel Currie, gardener at Stanley Hall in the neighbourhood of 

 Wakefield, has lately left England with a view of establishing himself as a 

 market- gardener at Washington, in the United States. We have no doubt of 

 ' his ultimate success. — Id. 



The Great Cherry Tree of Withermarsh Green is the name applied to a 

 cherry tree now growing on Withermarsh Green, in this parish (Stoke Nayland, 

 Suffolk), and this name I consider it well entitled to hold ; as, among a vast 

 number of its kind, which are to be found in this and the adjoining parishes 

 (it being quite a cherry district), I have never seen one worthy of being com- 

 pared with it, either as to size or beauty. It is of the kind which produces 

 the small red cherry. Several of the lower branches have been, at different 

 times, lopped, and others have been injured by cattle, or they would long ere 

 this have nearly reached the ground. The height of the tree, from the ground 

 to the tip of the upper boughs, is 46 ft. ; the girth of the trunk, at twelve feet 

 from the ground, is 9 ft. ; the girth of the three principal arms, near the trunk, 

 is about 5 ft. ; the spread of the branches, from north to south, is 74 ft. j the 

 spread of the boughs, from west to east, 62 ft. — J. -D. Hoy. Stoke Nayland, 

 Suffolk, Feb. 11.1834. 



There is scarcely a lovelier object than a cherry tree in blossom. The leaves 

 are yet absent, and every branch a rich wreath of snow-white graceful blossoms. 

 What a feast to the eye and to the heart it must be, to pass through the cherry 

 district above spoken of early in May ! — J. D. 



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