ArboricuUural Notices. 29 



trees and shrubs at present in the country, than by collecting 

 them together, and growing them on one spot. The success of 

 the Horticultural Society, in the case of the hardy fruits, will, we 

 trust, encourage them to pursue the same method with regard to 

 the hardy trees and shrubs, and to persevere in it. Our Arbo- 

 retum Britannicum is intended to cooperate with the Society in 

 this respect ; but the collecting togedier of plants from all parts 

 of this country, and from the temperate regions of all other coun- 

 tries, must mainly depend upon the exertions of the Society 

 itself, and upon the influence of its name. 



Among the trees which we would recommend as worthy of in- 

 troduction everywhere are, the scarlet-flowered horsechestnut, the 

 new scarlet-flowered thorn, the Cratse^gustanacetifolia, Aronia,and 

 odoratissima, remarkable for their large yellow or coral- coloured 

 fruits ; the ^Sorbus domestica, and the Z)iospyros virginiana, both 

 of which have borne fruit freely, on trees only ten years planted, 

 in our garden at Bayswater, this last summer ; the Pyrus vestita, 

 the noblest tree of the genus, of which there is a fine stock 

 of plants at Messrs. Loddiges's ,• the NysS(S?, all the species of 

 which are beautiful small trees; the ^'Inus cordata, and the 

 cut-leaved alder ; the cut-leaved birch ; the scarlet oak ; the new 

 Lucombe oak (X. 185. 296. and 452.) ; the new variegated evei- 

 green oak, mentioned X. 524., as introduced by Mr. Veitch; 

 the liquidambar, an old inhabitant of the nurseries, but a tree 

 which ought to be in the margin of every plantation whatever, 

 whether useful or ornamental ; the Pinus Cembra and Sabin- 

 idna the ^^bies Douglas/?, a rapid-growing tree; the ^^bies 

 Webbfflyza, a kind of giant silver fir; and, in short, all the new 

 species of Pinus and y^^bies that can be got. If our nurserymen 

 were skilful in grafting these genera, in the herbaceous manner 

 practised extensively by the French, and nowhere with more 

 success than in the Fromont Nursery, we should have no want 

 of young plants of all the rare pines and firs; of many of which, 

 there is at present hardly a plant to be got. That such 

 grafted pines and firs will ultimately become large timber trees, 

 is proved by the size which such grafted trees have attained in 

 the arboretum of the Botanic Garden at Metz, as seen by us 

 in 1828, and noticed in our volume for 1829. 



It may seem superfluous to recommend the cedar of Lebanon; 

 yet we cannot help reminding planters that this noble tree will, 

 under the same circumstances, grow as rapidly as the common 

 larch. Mr. Sang of Kirkaldy published this many years ago; 

 and it may be proved at Kenwood, Lady Tankerville's at Walton, 

 Claremont, Ascot Park, High Clere, and a number of other 

 places, all mentioned in this Magazine ; and is farther confirmed 

 by the Return Papers which have been filled up for us from all 

 parts of the country. 



