84 Foreign Notices : — DenmarJc. 



plants, hardy and tender, which are, or have been, in cultivation in G-ermany, 

 with references to figures, &c., in the manner of your Hurtus Britannicus ; but 

 with the further valuable addition of a reference to gardens in which they may 

 be found growing, and with the prices at which they are usually sold, as in 

 your Arboretum Britannicum. — ./. R. Frankfurt, Dec. 10. 1836, 



The Pfauen Insel at Potsdam. — On leaving Berlin, we stopped for a couple 

 of hours at the lovely Pfauen Insel, or Isle of Peacocks, in the Havel, near 

 Potsdam. It is nearly an English mile long, and belongs to the king, who 

 has a curious kind of pied-a-terre, or shooting-box, on it ; and it is laid out 

 partly as a zoological, partly as a botanical, garden. In the former depart- 

 ment, the animals are more remarkable for their fine state of health than for 

 their number or variety. In the botanical department, the palm-house, built in 

 1830, to receive the palms bought by the king at Paris, is very handsome ; not 

 so much, perhaps, for its exterior form, as for the interior arrangement. In 

 the centre is a latania in full vigour, above 30 ft. in diameter in the spread of its 

 foliage. The remainder of the house is occupied by many fine palms, Cycade^, 

 bambusas, dracsenas, &c., interspersed with lower plants ; and what adds 

 much to the beauty is, the very tasteful manner in which the Passiflora qua- 

 drangularis, racemosa, kermesina, and other flowering creepers, are made to 

 hang in festoons wherever the want of taller palms leaves a vacancy. The 

 garden is under the care of M. Fintelmann, the nephew of the older Fin- 

 telraann, who is removed to the Royal Gardens of Charlottenburg, and 

 has taken with him the fine collection of dahlias which used to be at the 

 Pfauen Insel. {Comp. Bot. Mag., vol. ii. p. 78.) 



DENMARK. 



Agave americdna is now magnificently in flower in the Botanic Garden, 

 Copenhagen ; a circumstance which has only happened in that garden twice 

 before; viz. in 1724 and 1745. The flower stem is 18ft. high, with twenty- 

 two branches, on which are upwards of 3000 flower buds. The leaves cover 

 a space of 26 ft. in circumference. (Hermes, Nov. 30. 1836.) 



Art. II. Domestic Notices. 

 ENGLAND. 



Douglases Monument. — The subscriptions for Douglas's monument being, 

 so far as we are concerned, now nearly brought to a close, though the sum 

 raised has not equalled our expectations, yet we cannot help doing justice to 

 the extraordinary zeal which on this occasion has been shown by several gar- 

 deners, both at home and abroad. M. Ch. Ranch, at Vienna, has raised no 

 less than 11.; and M. Rinz, jun., at Frankfort, 15/. Neither of these per- 

 sons, we believe, ever saw Douglas ; nor is it likely that any one of those 

 whom they induced to subscribe ever did. They must, therefore, have been 

 influenced only by a love of the plants which Douglas introduced into Ger- 

 man gardens, in common with those of all the rest of Europe; and by the 

 true German spirit, which limits its approbation of merit, and its sympathy for 

 misfortune, to no country. In England, Mr. Glendinning has been very 

 zealous and successful ; and the lady of his employer, Lady Rolle, was the 

 first of the nobility to subscribe. Mr. Booth of Carclew (who raised 4/. 8^.), 

 Mr. Cuthill, Mr. Carton, and a number of other gardeners, might be men- 

 tioned as having been very active and zealous, down to the last sum which we 

 have (Jan. 10.) just received ; viz. 4/. Is., collected by Mr. James Clark, 

 gardener to the Earl of Lonsdale at Whitehaven Castle. To show the exer- 

 tions which it is necessary to make in order to collect money for purposes of 

 this kind, we make the following quotation from Mr. Clark's letter : — " On 

 receiving the August Number of the Gardetier's Magazine, containing the 

 * List for Subscriptions ' for a monument to the late Mr. D. Douglas, the 

 ho^anist, I left the paper in one of the most public places in our town, a 



