Domestic Notices : — England. 571 



worked far us at Bayswater; and who appeared delighted with America, and 

 with the treatment which he received from his employer. His employer was 

 equally satisfied with him ; and, as we had sent him out, we were highly gra- 

 tified at the result. We heard nothing of him afterwards till we received the 

 following letter from his employer ; which we publish without an}' names, as a 



caution to young gardeners.] Poor , whom you sent to me some three 



years since, in the course of the first year fell in with some old acquaintances 

 from Ireland, and became very intemperate. He finally lost all his money, in 

 some drunken frolic, was arrested, and sent to the city watch-house from 

 Saturday night until Monday morning, when he was discharged on paying a 

 trifling fine for being drunk. Through shame and vexation, he enlisted in a 

 company of our army, then on its march to our north-western frontiers, against 

 hostile Indians. The troops were attacked with the cholera before they 

 reached the Mississippi. Many died, and great part of the remainder dis- 

 persed through the country. Some died miserably in the woods, and others 



were never heard of after. I fear poor died ; but I can ascertain that 



fact (if known at our war-office), should he have relatives to enquire after 

 him. — R. 



The Toronto Horticultural Society was established in Upper Canada on the 

 1st of May, 1834, and the regulations and by-laws are before us. The pre- 

 sident of the Society is the Hon. George H. Markland ; and the secretaries 

 are Messrs. B. Turquand and Alexander Gordon, to whom persons in this 

 country, desirous of promoting the interests of the Society, may address com- 

 munications. Mr. Knight, Dr. Lindley, Dr. Hooker, ourselves, and others, 

 are constituted foreign honorary members, and Mr. Charlwood, Messrs. Skir- 

 ving of Liverpool, Mr. Austin of Glasgow, Mr. Saunders of Guernsey, Mr. 

 Gorrie, and all the secretaries of all horticultural societies whatever, corre- 

 sponding members. Such a society is likely to do an immense deal of good 

 in a comparatively new country, and we would recommend the secretaries to 

 have their eye on the agricultural exhibitions of the British seedsmen, with 

 a view of procuring from them seeds of improved varieties of grain and other 

 cultivated plants. There remains more to be done in the way of introducing 

 improved varieties of agricultural plants into general culture than most people 

 are aware of. Implements and machinery may be copied from engravings in 

 books, and modes of culture may be learned from the same source ; but seeds 

 and roots cannot be conveyed by pictures or descriptions from one country 

 to another. 



Art. V. Domestic Notices. 

 ENGLAND. 



ARRIVAL, from Demerara, of the Botanical Collector, Mr. Thomas Colley. — 

 I have no small satisfaction in announcing the safe arrival, from Demerara, 

 of Mr. Thomas Colley, late foreman in the nursery of Mr. Fairbairn, at Ox- 

 ford. I engaged Mr. Colley, in December last, to go to Demerara for the 

 purpose of collecting plants generally, but more particularly the different 

 species of epiphytal Orchideag ; and he has now returned, with about sixty 

 species (many of them new) of the latter, and several novelties in other fami- 

 lies. In the course of his botanical travels, he explored large portions of the 

 Essequibo, Massaroni, and Corgooni rivers; and the whole of the adjacent 

 colony of Berbice. Although exposed to dangers and hardships of every 

 description, for the space of four months, his health was never in the slightest 

 degree affected: and, such is his enthusiasm, that, although so recently 

 landed on his native soil, he is already prepared to leave it on another bota- 

 nical expedition. Should this, therefore, ever meet the eye of any person or 

 society desirous of sending out a collector of plants, or of specimens in other 

 branches of natural history, I should be most happy to recommend Mr. Colley 



