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T. 'Fraxiniis O'rnus L. Total height 9 inet. = 29ft.,' height of the trunk3*9met. 

 = ]2ft. ; circumference of the trunk 1-37 met =4^ ft. The lower branches 

 near the ground are young plants of the same O'rnus, grafted on branches 

 which issued from the stock of F. excelsior. They were grafted last year. 



II. A'cer mo7ispessiddmnn. Total height 9*43 met.=31ft. ; height of the 

 trunk 2 met.=6ift.,- circumference of the trunk 3'2I met.= 10ft.; diameter 

 of the head 7-60met.=25 ft. 



III. Salisbuna adiantifoHa (Giiigko biloba). Height 12*62 met. =41 ft. ; 

 circumference of the trunk 1-31 met.=4^Tt. 



IV. Lonicera a/pigena Linn. Total height 4*22 met.= 13§ft.; height of 

 the trunk l-30met.=4i ft. ; circumference of the trunk 099 met. = 3 ft. ; di- 

 ameter of the head 3'82 met.= 1 1 ft. 



V. Robinia ghttinosa L. Total height 12 met.=39 ft. ; height of the trunk 

 2*14 met. = 7 ft. ; circumference of the trunk 1-35 met. =4a ft.; diameter of 

 the head 9-34 met. =30 ft. 



The AVd-r monspessuldnimi and the Lonicer« were planted on the spot 

 \yhere they stand, at the time that Linnaeus was here, when the garden was 

 arranged by him and Professor A. Van Royen, according to his sexual system. 

 — C. G.C, Reinivardt, Professor of Chemistry and Botany at Ley den. 



N.B. The Lonlcer« has lost its leaves at the present time. A young plant, 

 however, has issued from a large fissure in the trunk, which sprang from seed 

 that had fallen into that cavity. The branches of this very old tree are 

 fastened together by iron hoops. 



GERMANY. 



The English Garden at Munich. — I send you a copy of the plans of the 

 English garden at Munich, as recently altered, embellished with six litho- 

 graphic prints. I hope you will be pleased with the views of that part of the 

 garden where the round temple is ; which, when you were here, was not 

 begun. The temple, and the monument within it, are now finished. The 

 design is b}' the senator Count Klenze, our first architect ; and it is built of 

 white sandstone, in the style of the ancient Greek buildings. It is ornamented 

 with encaustic paintings; a style of ornamenting buildings which is here called 

 lithochromic. Although these paintings are flat, and without that light and 

 shade which architectural ornaments usually possess, they have a splendid 

 effect in the sunshine. If the colours could but always remain as lively and 

 striking as they are at present, they would be invaluable ! Count Klenze, 

 who intends to go soon to London, has, by this first example of lithochromic, 

 not only obtained himself a celebrity here for the renewal of this art, but I 

 may say, perhaps, throughout all Europe. — Sckell, Court Garden Director. 

 Munich, June 24. 1836. 



SPAIN. 



Gibraltar, May 20. 1836. — I have taken in the Arboret2im Britannicum, 

 and have also persuaded our Library to take it too ; for I have a good deal 

 of love for botany and trees, and have the same feeling respecting them as 

 my ancestors had. I have a large garden here ; and I am trying to acclimatise 

 the tropical fruits, as well as our own gooseberries, currants, and raspberries ; 

 which are now fruiting abundantly with me, though it is the first year of the 

 trial. I have a banana with a raspberry bush under it, both in fruit ! So much 

 for the climate of Gibraltar. — Basil R. Heron. 



NORTH AMERICA. 



Quercus alba. — A white oak tree, on the land of Mr. Grove, near Rox- 

 bury, Lettenkenny township, Franklin county, Pennsylvania, being felled and 

 cut up, produced the following quantity of wood ; viz. 1400 shingles, 200 fel- 

 loes ; two saw logs, one 14 ft., the other of 16 ft. long ; one house log, 22 ft. 

 long; four rail cuts, making 60 rails (each 8 ft. long) ; and two cords of wood. 

 J. M. Philadelphia, Sept. 17. 1836. 



Vldtanus occidentdlis. — Near llowel's Ferry, S. C, on Broad River, on the 

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