THE 



GARDENER'S MAGAZINE, 



DECEMBER, 1834. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. Arboretum Britannicum ; or, Portraits, to a Scale of a 

 Quarter of an Inch to a Foot, of all the Trees which endure the 

 Open Air in Britain, of Ten Years' Growth, drawn from existing 

 Trees within Ten Miles of London ; with Botanical Specimens of 

 the Floivers and Fruit, or Seeds, of each Tree, to a Scale of Two 

 Inches to a Foot, fyc. 8$c. 



With the present Number we give a specimen plate of this 

 work; and in the margin of p. 582. we give a form as the model 

 of a return paper, which any gardener may transfer to a sheet 

 of letter-paper, and, by measuring the trees under his care, fill 

 up, and send us. We have sent papers of this kind, in French, 

 German, and Italian, to all the botanic gardens of Europe; and, 

 in English, to North America, and to upwards of a thousand 

 country seats in Great Britain and Ireland : but still there must 

 be some hundreds of English gardeners who have trees worthy 

 of notice under their care; and the object of this article is to 

 attract their attention, and put them on an easy mode of supply- 

 ing us with the information we want. We are particularly 

 desirous that they should bear in mind, that we are much less 

 anxious to ascertain the dimensions, &c, of old trees (though 

 these we wish also), than of young trees, and especially of foreign 

 ones, which have been from eight to ten years planted. One 

 great object which we have in view is, to prove, by facts from 

 every part of the country, the extraordinary growth that may be 

 made by trees during the first ten years after planting, when the 

 soil has been properly prepared, and proper room allowed to 

 them ; and, consequently, what every planter who expects to 

 live ten years may have just expectations of seeing as the re- 

 sult of his labours. The particulars for the following list of 

 trees, intended to be contained in our first three Numbers, or 

 for such of them as may have come under the notice of those 

 who send, should be received by us in the course of the month 

 of December : — 

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