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for fear of misconstruction, that, far from justifying, I much lamented such a 

 feeling ; and I observe that I have incautiously admitted a stronger expression 

 concerning the unpopularity of the principle on which that garden has been 

 conducted than I should wish to have used. {Herh. Amar. p. 410.) 



A Zoological Institution, Museum, and Garden, for the County of Kent, is, we 

 rejoice to observe by an advertisement in the Morning Chronicle of August 23., 

 about to be established. The situation is about half a mile to the westward 

 of Gravesend. A handsome new pier has already been erected by the pro- 

 prietor of this and the adjoining ground, to be devoted exclusively to the 

 visitors of Rosherville. None but houses of the first respectability are to be 

 built in the neighbourhood. The gardens are encompassed by chalk cliffs of a 

 vast height, around which a splendid promenade is to be made for the visitors. 

 The animals, plants, &c., will be procured under the direction of gentlemen, 

 most competent and experienced judges of zoological and botanical science. 

 The grounds will be laid out bj' a most eminent artist. A capital of 10,000/. 

 is to be raised by debentures of 20/. each. 



Dr. Mac Fayden, President of the Horticultural Society of Jamaica, whose 

 name our readers must have frequently seen in this Magazine, is now in this 

 country, superintending the printing of the Flora of his adopted island. The 

 doctor has been the means of successfully introducing the aracacca plant to 

 the Glasgow Botanic Garden, where it is growing vigorously. Dr. Mac 

 Fayden is of opinion that this vegetable will, in all probability, soon be added 

 to the number of our culinary esculents. The root is about the size and 

 colour of that of the parsiiep ; and it has nearly the same flavour. We hope 

 to receive some account of the mode of treating the plant in the Glasgow 

 Botanic Garden from our friend the curator, Mr. Stewart Murray. 



Mr. Charles H. J. Smith, landscape-gardener, Edinburgii, is now on a tour 

 in France, Belgium, and Germany, for improvement in his profession. 



Vicinity of Trees to Highways. — An important decision, under the General 

 Highway Act, was given at the Guildhall, Canterbury, on Monday, May 11., 

 before the mayor, aldermen, &c. The surveyors of the highways had given 

 notice to Mr. Sandys to remove certain trees which he had recently planted 

 in front of his dwelling-house in Bridge Street, Canterbury. Mr. Sandys 

 contended that the trees were planted on his own freehold; and he produced 

 a grant from the corporation in 18 12, which comprised the land in question ; 

 and, although he had dedicated the footpath to the use of the public, yet he 

 had retained, by posts and chains, the line or boundary upon which the trees 

 were planted. Mr. Sandys pointed out a great number of other places where 

 the trees were within 15 ft. of the centre of the road. The mayor, having con- 

 ferred with the other magistrates, stated that they were unanimously of 

 opinion that Mr. Sandys's trees are within the act, which makes it illegal to 

 plant trees within 13 ft. of the centre of any road. {Kentish Gazette, May J7.) 



New Plant-Houses at Woburn Abbey and Trentham Hall. — A correspondent 

 informs us that Mr. Clark, the hot-house manufacturer of Lionel Street, Bir- 

 mingham, is now at work at a very extensive range of flower-houses for the 

 gardens at Woburn Abbey, which, when completed, will form one of the most 

 spacious and magnificent range of houses in the kingdom. He is also at work 

 at a conservatory, to be erected at Trentham, for the more immediate use and 

 recreation of the Duchess of Sutherland, and which is altogether upon a 

 novel and greatly admired mode of construction. 



Black Grub of the Turnip Saiv-fly. — An arrangement has been made be- 

 tween the Entomological Society and the Agricultural Association of Saffron 

 Walden, whereby the sum of ten guineas has been proposed as the prize for 

 the best essay (to be drawn up from personal observation) upon the natural 

 history and habits of the turnip saw-fly, the larva of which is known under 

 the name of the nigger, or black Jack ; to be illustrated by figures cfthe 

 insect in its different states ; together with the result of actual experiments 

 made for the prevention of its attacks, or the destruction of the insects 

 themselves. The essays are to be accompanied by testimonials of the success 



