deserving of general Cultivation. 



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places, plants might be 

 trained to a single stem, 

 and budded with S. race- 

 mosa, standard high. The 

 price of plants, in the Lon- 

 don nurseries, is 15. Qd. 

 each. [Arh. Brit., p. 1031.) 



Syringa Josikse^a Arb. 

 Brit., p. 1210., is a new and 

 beautiful species of lilac, of 

 which plants may already 

 be procured in some of the 

 nurseries. 



i^raxinus americana Arh. Brit., p. 1232. Those who have 

 only seen this species, and its numerous varieties in the Horti- 

 cultural Society's Gar- 

 den, or in the arbore- 

 tum of the Messrs, Lod- 

 diges, can form no idea 

 of the grandeur and 

 beauty of the tree, 

 when of a considerable 

 size, and grown in free 

 air near water. We 

 are led to make this 

 remark from the beauty 

 and freshness of a col- 

 lection which was late- 

 ly sent to us by Mr. 



Brooks, from his arboretum at Flitwick House, 

 that there are no old American ash trees in the splendid col- 

 lection of old exotic trees and shrubs at Syon. The highest 

 American ash that 



figured in 



of is that 



our Arbo- 



from a speci- 



retum 



men at Ham House 

 where, however, the 

 tree, being on a gra- 

 velly soil, suffers every 

 summer for want of 

 water. But the most 

 magnificent specimen 

 of an American ash, 

 and that, too, of the 

 finest variety of the species (viz. F. a. juglandifolia), is on the 

 banks of the Thames, in front of Pope's Villa. It is there nearly 



