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had at Carthagena for 8s. per gallon, or 50 dollars per tun, of 252 gallons ; 

 while seal oil sells here for from 110 to 120 dollars per tun, or above 100 per 

 cent dearer. Mr. Watts wishes for information as to how far these might be 

 productive objects of commerce. Every addition to our imports from South 

 America not only first, to civilise the inhabitants, and put an end to those 

 distractions, which every friend of humanity must deplore; but to promote 

 industry and sobriety of habits among the inhabitants ; to give employment 

 to a large quantity of British shipping, and a greater number of sailors ; to 

 improve the receipts of our customs ,• and provide an abundant market for our 

 manufactures, upon which the doors of the European market are gradually, 

 but with too fatal a certainty, closing, and which the insane and suicidal 

 proceedings of the Trades' Unions are so blindly assisting our rivals in trade 

 and manufactures to close. Hence, it has long been my wish and endeavour 

 to divert the tide of British industry, and domestic as well as colonial enter- 

 prise, into new channels which cannot be so readily closed ; and in which we 

 have little to apprehend from successful rivalry. This has been the incessant 

 aim of my foreign correspondence for the last ten years, and in this object 

 I have been ably and generously seconded, both by Mr. George Watts, and 

 his ill-used father. If our success has not been proportionate to our wishes, 

 the fault does not wholly rest with us. — Id. 



Fifty Barrels of ground Dividivi are expected in England, from Carthagena, 

 in the course of July; and Dr. Hamilton, at Plymouth, has instructions to 

 dispose of them to the tanners. The intrinsic value of the dividivi is nearly 

 half as much again as that of the best Aleppo galls. 



A large and handsome Cucumber was brought to us on Aug. 2. by Mr. Cuthill, 

 gardener to L. Sullivan, Esq., of Broom House, Fulham. It was grown on 

 what is called Wheedon's plan, with this difference, that it was planted in the 

 pit of the house amongst old tan. A single stem was trained up an iron rod 

 7 ft. in length, to the roof trellis. When it reached the trellis, it was stopped, 

 to cause it to branch out ; and by degrees, as the shoots spread over the 

 trellis, all the leaves were taken off the stem from bottom to top, leaving it 

 quite bare. In this state the stem measured If in. in circumference at the 

 distance of 7 ft. from the roots. The leaves on the branches were generally 

 about 19 in. by 15 in. ; and the cucumbers produced from 15 in. to 20 in. 

 long ; the latter being the length of that sent to us. It is straight, and varies 

 little in thickness from one end to the other, averaging 6| in. in circumference. 

 It weighs I lb. 12Joz. 



SCOTLAND. 



Mr. Charles H. J. Smith, the son of our valued correspondent Mr. Smith, 

 of Hopetoun House Gardens, has, we observe, commenced business as 

 " Landscape-Gardener and Planner" in Edinburgh, and we sincerely wish 

 him success. If he will exercise his talents in composing some designs and 

 essays for this Magazine, and for our forthcoming Encyclopaedia of Land- 

 scape- Gardening, it will fit him for rendering a reason to his employers for 

 what he may recommend. In these thinking and reasoning days, the taste of 

 no artist will be taken, as it used to be, on credit. When the late Duke of 

 Northumberland asked the celebrated Brown on what principle he distributed 

 single trees, his answer was, " I stick them in here and there as the maggot 

 bites ;" but no answer of this kind will do now-a-days. 



The floricultural impostor noticed, p. 56., and in the preceding volume, 

 appears to have been at work in the north-east of Scotland. In the Elgin 

 Courier of May 16. and 23. are the following paragraphs : — 



Floricultural Impostor \ — We last week cautioned our readers against being 

 imposed upon by a fellow offering to sell flower roots, and calling himself 

 Mi-. Green, from the new Vauxhall and Bowling-green Gardens, Aberdeen. 

 It was well we did so, as we have since learned that he called on several 

 proprietors of extensive gardens in the west country, but they were on their 

 guard against being imposed on by him. We shall now give some details of his 



