44? Domestic Notices : — England^ 



feorder, in the spring of 1834, of peat and loam, of each about an equal quan- 

 tity I and they now average 3 ft. in height. I have two seedlings, which came 

 up at the same time, from the conspicua seed ; which very much resemble, in 

 every particular, the M. tripetala, and which are now about 18 in. high in pots. 

 I see, in the Enci/chpccdia of Plants, and in the liortus Britannicu-s, the date of 

 the introduction of the O'rnus europse'a is 1810; but, when it is known that 

 the present Duke of Marlborough received many packages of plants and seeds 

 direct from the Continent, you may not think their having been planted here 

 twenty-five years, as I have indicated in the Return Paper, erroneous. 1 date 

 from the planting of the major part of the plants here, not from their actual 

 age ; but I am told, by those men who work here now, and who worked here 

 at the time these trees were planted, that they were invariably small at the 

 time of planting. The Aildntiis glandulosa flowers here freely eyery year, 

 but does not show any but male blossoms. I have gathered, off the Quercus 

 (Suber, three dozen of acorns this season, which, to all appearance, are per- 

 fectly ripe. Are instances of the kind common in England ? [They occur 

 occasionally; and we have heard of a few this season.] There are here 

 a great many species or varieties of Quercus. There are also many fine 

 young plants of Schubertia, and twenty-four very large ones of the iaurus 

 nobilis. We have of Magnoh'a tomentdsa 1, conspicua 6, grandiflora 22, auri- 

 culata 2, glauca 55, macrophylla I, cordata 4, tripetala 30, and acuminata 14 ; 

 of J'rbutus C/^nedo rubra there are 18, A. Jndrachne 2, Stuartia Malacho- 

 dendronl2, Chionanthus virghiica 6 ; Pavifl macrostachya 12, P. flava 6, P. 

 rubra 3, O'rnus europse^a 18; and Cornus florida 13. — John Ward. 



High Clere, Nov, 29. 1834.- — I called here with a view of leaving a Return 

 Paper, but I found you bad already sent one. Since you were at tligh Clere, 

 a large addition has been made to the heath-mould quarter ; and they have 

 planted out singly the ^Rhododendron campanuiatum, which is growing with 

 very great vigour. It is thoroughly hardy, and appears to have the habit of a 

 very sturdy tree-like shrub. Lord Caernarvon, who is very fond of the place, 

 has just laid out a drive through the great holly and pine wood. They have 

 taken great pains with it ; and, next spring, it will be in a very forward state, 

 a detachment of labourers having been especially appropriated to it. It will 

 be between three and four miles long, and full of vicissitude and beautj^. The 

 Cotoneaster microphjlla, as an isolated shrub upon the grass (and it is even 

 16 ft. in diameter), produces a most striking effect, and attracts universal 

 notice. — P. D. 



RemarJcable Foreign Trees, — The largest tulip tree that ever I saw in 

 England is at Mount Edgecombe ; the largest cork trees and ilices, at Mam- 

 head ; one of the largest cypresses is at Powderham Castle ; the largest 

 cedars are at Wilton (a remarkable one is, also, at Althorp, and the more 

 observable, because standing single and on high ground) ; a large deciduous 

 cypress at Port Eliot, and another at Ken Wood. Of these you should 

 endeavour to get the dimensions ; not of the trunk only, but of the height 

 also, and spread of the branches, and, so far as is possible, the precise ages. 

 There are a great many rare and curious trees at Lord Ravensworth's, at 

 Percy's Cross, near Parson's Green ; a remarkably fine catalpa at Hampton 

 Court Palace ; one hanging over the road at Shepperton ; an arboretum, and 

 many well-grown cypress trees, at Lord Coventry's at Croome ; and many fine 

 specimens at Syon. The bishop's garden at Fulham has also some curious 

 fm-est trees. — B. Dec. 6. 1834. 



Fine Trees near London. — There is a fine Gledltschk triacanthos in the 

 Clockhouse garden at Chelsea; and one of the finest specimens in England in 

 the garden of " Sylvanus Urban, Gent.," at Hammersmith. The finest speci- 

 men of a Magnol/rt macrophylla now in existence in England is in the Duke 

 of Devonshire's garden at Chiswick ; it is in beautiful health, blossoms freely, 

 and a more splendid production of the northern flora cannot be conceived. 

 There is, or was, a good specimen, also, at Mr. Gray's at Harringay. There 



