1 8 New hardy Trees and Shrubs 



be to cut off, by a large drain or ditch, the communication of 

 the mountain water, and render the intended fields insulated. 

 The tract is then to be drained in the most obvious directions. 

 By these proceedings, the character of the vegetation will begin 

 to change, even before the surface is broken up by plough or 

 spade. I mention the latter, for the land may now be considered 

 redeemed for ever, with a little attention towards keeping the 

 conduits in a clear state ; and, therefore, may have a trenching 

 bestowed upon it. The mosses would be annihilated, and even 

 their seeds would not vegetate in a habitat so metamorphosed. 

 This hitherto undisturbed tribe of vegetation would be resolved 

 into vegetable mould, and afford excellent food for turnips, hay, 

 or corn. 



The distinction between warm and cold soils, bearing the 

 same relation to the solar heat, will be nearly done away with, 

 if we can render the cold soil so pervious as to enable us to 

 deprive it of its store of gelid moisture, in order that it may 

 iinbibe the summer showers. Wheat succeeds in Morayshire, 

 though not at all in parts of Scotland much farther south. 

 That county suffers from the drought in the early part of the 

 season, which shows it to be deprived then of all cold moisture; 

 but, when the summer rains begin to fall, vegetation proceeds 

 most rapidly ; and the wheat grown in it brings a fair price in 

 the London market. N. 



Art. III. Arboricultiiral Notices ; or. Notices of new hardy Trees 

 and Shrubs deserving oj" general Cultivation in useful or ornamental 

 Plantations. 



Some new ligneous plants have been raised from Nepal 

 seeds in the Horticultural Society's Garden ; though but few 

 of them are sufficiently advanced to be either correctly named, 

 or fit for distribution. That splendid plant, Leycesterm for- 

 mosa Wall. {Arboretum Britannicum, p. 1060., and our Jig. 1.), 

 is a most beautiful shrub when in a flowering state, from the 

 contrast of the deep green hue of its stem and leaves with 

 the purple colour of its large bracteas and berries. It was 

 introduced into British gardens in 1824; and it flowered soon 

 afterwards in the nursery of Messrs. Allen and Rogers at 

 Battersea, whence specimens were sent to the late Mr. Sweet 

 and Mr. G. Don. It is a rambling shrub, with the general 

 appearance of a honeysuckle ; and it will probably prove 

 somewhat tender in this country; but, as it is easily propa- 

 gated by cuttings, or by seeds, which it produces in abun- 

 dance, a stock of plants might be kept in readiness to provide 

 for accidental losses. Trained against a conservative wall, it 



