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3'am, on account of the largeness of its size. Several plants have produced 

 flow^ers, from which circumstance it is hoped that seed will finally be obtained 

 from them. According to this report, and that of several others, it is probable 

 that this plant will prove an interesting acquisition to the French gardens. — 

 J. B. Paris, Nov. 1. 1834. 



Art. II. Domestic Notices. 



ENGLAND. 



A Botanic Garden is about to be established by the Eclectic Society* 

 " which garden is to contain all the indigenous plants of Great Britain." We 

 hope the intentions of this Society, of the existence of which we were 

 not previously aware, will speedily be realised. For a curator, they could not 

 find a more suitable practical gardener, or a more scientific botanist, than 

 Mr. Scott, late botanical cultivator in Mr. Knight's Exotic Nursery. — Cond. 



Some Animals are kept in the Botanic Garden at Bury St. Edmunds. — Mr. 

 Hodson, the proprietor and superintendent of this garden, has added to the 

 attractions of it some living animals, as a nucleus of a collection which he 

 hopes to extend. The river Lark passes through this garden ; and escapes 

 beneath arches, which support the boundary wall in this part of the garden. 

 The stream and arches are objects of interest ; in the respective beauty and 

 character of each, and in the historical associations induced by the arches, 

 once part of the precincts of the grounds of the famous abbey of Bury St. 

 Edmunds. The whole of the botanic garden is within these grounds, and 

 occupies a considerable portion of them; it is in quantity about, we be- 

 lieve, nine acres. The river affords eligible range, and some degree of pro- 

 vision, for waterfowl ; and we observe that most of the animals at present 

 obtained, enumerated in the following list sent us by Mr. Turner, the curator, 

 are of this kind : — Swan, two pairs ; spoonbill, a pair ; the common heron, a 

 pair ; Canada goose, a pair ; Muscovy duck, a pair ; hook-billed duck, a pair ; 

 wigeon,a pair; pin-tailed duck, a pair; a golden-eyed diver, a stork, phegsant, 

 two pairs ; silver pheasants, three individuals ; golden pheasant, two indi- 

 viduals ; Spanish rabbit, or lobbed-eared rabbit, a pair ; a guinea pig or spotted 

 cavy, a pair. — J. D. 



Mr. Wee/ces^s Mode of heating hy hot Water is spreading extensively, both 

 in the neighbourhood of London and in the country; apparatus being now in 

 course of erection, by the inventor, in no fewer than twelve different counties. 

 In all, the principle is the same, viz. that of heating the water in cast-iron 

 pipes ; which form a casing to the fireplace, on each side, above, and sometimes 

 even below, the fire. The water, being heated, is raised to a small cistern, 

 elevated five, six, or any number of feet above the fire ; whence it descends, 

 and circulates either on a level with the fireplace, or above or below it, as 

 described in IX. 37., and in the EncyclopcEdia of Gardening, new edit. § 2534. 

 One of the best specimens of the application of this mode of heating to hot- 

 houses, may be seen in the small stoves for orchideous plants, which were 

 erected in linight's Nursery, King's Road, last summer. Here the water 

 being raised to the small cistern above mentioned, is made to descend through 

 one, two, three, or four different pipes at pleasure, by plugging up those not 

 wanted; and, consequently, heats one, two, three, or four different houses, or 

 pits, as may be desired ; or any one house or pit, in a one, two, three, or four- 

 fold degree. At the Bishop of London's gardens, at Fulham, we have also 

 seen this system in complete operation. Mr. Weekes has recently taken out 

 a patent for applying his mode of circulating hot water to cooking, in a new 

 description of kitchen-range, which will be found noticed in our Architectural 

 Magazine, ii. p. 44. i 



White Knights, Nov. 19, 1834. — My seedHng plants of Magnoh'a conspfcua, 

 that were sown in March, 1832, are doing well. I plunged them into a 



