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tails respecting these trees will be found in Professor Reinwardt's letter, 

 inserted under Holland (p. 692.). From diiFerent parts of England we have 

 received drawings : of an elm at Mongewell, by Mr. Jukes ; one at Rotherwas, 

 near Herefoi'd, by Mr. Hay Brown, gardener. Stoke Edith Park ; a cedar, at 

 Foxley, planted by the late Sir Uvedale Price ; the weeping oak at Moccas 

 Court, mentioned p. 368., drawn, at our request, by Mr. G. R. Lewis, now 

 residing for a few weeks at Hereford ; the American lime, at White Knights, 

 which we sent down an artist to draw ; beeches and ashes from Elgin, drawn 

 by Mr, Stevens there, and forwarded by J. M'Leod, Esq. ; a cedar and a 

 Scotch elm, from the estate of Gray, drawn by Mr. J. Robertson; elms, 

 beeches, Platanus, /Mex, and a sweet chestnut, from Salterbridge, Cappoquin, 

 Ireland, sent by J. H. Alcock, Esq. To these trees, others might be added, 

 which are now being drawn for us in different parts of the country, some of 

 them at our own expense, and others at the expense of contributors. We take 

 this mode of returning our best thanks to all the parties who have been so 

 kind as to render us so important a service as to send us these drawings; and 

 to solicit drawings of remarkable specimens from every part of the country 

 at home, and from climates analogous to that of Britain in every part of the 

 world. There are many remarkable trees in France, Germany, and Italy, 

 that we should like much to get drawings of. The Celtis australis, at Monza, 

 and a very old tree of the same species near Aix, just occur to us. We have 

 sent instructions to a friend to procure us a drawing of the lime tree at 

 Neustadt, in Wirtemberg, and written to Dr. Mease respecting a very beauti- 

 ful Maclur«, in M'Mahon's Nursery, at Philadelphia. — Cond. 



Napoleon^s Willow. — Being anxious to procure some information as to 

 this tree for our Arboretum Britannicum, we sent a letter to the Morning 

 Chronicle, which appeared in that Journal on Sept. 5. 1836, We received a 

 great many letters on the subject; some dried specimens; a number' of draw- 

 ings and engravings, either lent or given; and one living plant. The result 

 of the whole, as far as it is worth making public, is as follows : — No species 

 of willow is indigenous in St. Helena; but about 1810, or before, when 

 General Beatson was governor there, he, being fond of planting, had a great 

 many forest trees and shrubs introduced from Britain ; and though, as 

 appears by the St. Helena Gazette, for 1811-12, he had the greatest difficulty 

 in preserving his plantations from the numerous goats which abounded in the 

 island, yet several of the trees survived, and attained a timber-like size. 

 Among these was the tree of iS'alix babyldnica, which has since been called 

 Napoleon's Willow. This tree grew among other trees, on the side of a 

 valley near a spring; and, having attracted the notice of Napoleon, he had a 

 seat placed under it, and used to go and sit there very frequently, and have 

 water brought to him from an adjoining spring. 



About the time of Napoleon's death, in 1821, a storm, it is said, shattered 

 the willow in pieces ; and, after the interment of the emperor, Madame 

 Bertrand planted several cuttings of this tree on the outside of the railing 

 which surrounds the grave; and placed within it, on the stone, several ffower- 

 pots with " heartsease " and " forget-me-not," In 1828, we are informed, 

 these trees were found in a dying state; and twenty-eight young ones were, in 

 consequence, placed near the tomb, which was at that time surrounded with 

 a profusion of scarlet-blossomed pelargoniums. A correspondent, who was 

 in St, Helena in 1834, says one of the willows was in a flourishing condition; 

 but another, who was there in 1835, describes it as going fast to decay, owing 

 to the number of pieces carried away by visitors. In what year a cutting 

 from this willow was brought to England for the first time we have not been 

 able to ascertain; but it appears to us that it may probably have been in the 

 year 182.3, and that one of the oldest plants is that in the garden of the 

 Roebuck tavern on Richmond Hill. This tree bears a white marble tablet, 

 with the following inscription: — 



" This W^illow, which was taken from the Tomb of Buonaparte in St. 

 Helena, in the year 1823, was presented by General Walker, Governor of 



