46 Domestic Notices : — England. 



foot from the ground. It stands on a lawn, and never receives any protection. — 

 J. T. B. Oct. 25. 1834. 



Catalpa syring(E/o&, in the same garden, is 32 ft. high, with a trunk 26^ in. in 

 diameter. It flowers magnificently every year, and sometimes ripens seeds. 

 — Idem. 



Salisbi/ria. adiaiitifolia has attained a great size in the garden of Mrs.M'Murdo, 

 at Hackney. — G. H. Bee. 6. 1834. 



Eobini'd Inspida trained agcmist a Wall. — It is too well known to most growers 

 of this most beautiful shrub, that a puff of wind often takes off branches of some 

 years' growth in a minute. To prevent this, an amateur at Bury St. Edmunds, 

 planted a young one on the east front of his dwelling-house, in 1822, which 

 he carefully trained against the wall. It is now 13 fit. high, and about 4i ft. 

 wide, and has been, for several springs, annually covered with beautiful blossoms. 

 Mentioning the Robink, reminds me that the Bury Botanic Garden contains a 

 very beautiful species of this genus, at present very scarce about this part of 

 the country, but which deserves to be generally known and universally culti- 

 vated. It was received, about three years and a half since, from Mr. Knight's 

 Exotic Nursery, King's Road, Chelsea, under the name of R. grandiflora. It 

 is nearly allied to R. hispida, but it flowers about a month earlier in the spring ; 

 the flowers are rather paler and larger; and they are so abundant, that we were 

 obliged to prop the branches, last spring, to prevent them being broken down. 

 This, no doubt, would also do admirably against a wall. — Henry Turnery 

 Botanic Garden, Bury St. Edvmnds, Dec. 4. 1834. 



Ribes sanguineum is another beautiful and early-flowering shrub, which flow- 

 ered beautifully on a south wall, in this garden, six weeks last spring ; while 

 those that stood in the borders were very much injured by the late frosts, and 

 scarcely opened their blossoms. — Idem. 



The Cork Tree (Quercics Siiber.') — A handsome specimen of this interesting 

 tree, has been removed from the old Botanic Garden at Bury St. Edmunds, to 

 the Abbey Grounds; it was planted from a small garden-pot fourteen years 

 since, and its suberose, or corky bark, is already visible. (^Biiry and Norwich 

 Post.) 



Brugmansia suaveolens. — I herewith forward you an account of a plant 

 which will far surpass any I have heard of or seen described. It is 17 ft. 

 high, and 45 ft. in circumference; the trunk, at the surface of the soil, is 18 in. 

 in circumference, and at 4 ft. from the ground, where it begins to branch off, 

 13 in. It has, at this time, upwards of 600 blossoms fully expanded, and a 

 great many unexpanded ; the flowers average 1 ft. long, and 8 in. in diameter; 

 and their beauty and fragrance are beyond conception. The plant occupies 

 the centre of a circular conservatory ; and Mr. Spong, the gardener (with 

 whose permission I write this), informs me that it was planted there when 

 about 5 ft. high, seven years ago, in a mixture of loam, peat, and vegetable 

 mould. It has flowered equally well for the last four years. The following 

 is an extract from the Sherborne Journal oi iuXj, 1831. The editor, in noticing 

 the meeting of the Dorset Horticultural Society, says : — " While on the 

 subject of horticulture, we would recommend to connoisseurs a ride to Lewis- 

 ton House, in this county (Dorsetshire), the seat of R. Gordon, Esq. M.P., 

 for the purpose of seeing a magnificent specimen of the Datura arborea which 

 is now in full blossom. It is about 10 ft. in height, 40 ft. in circumference, 

 and exhibits, we should think, at least 400 flowers. This plant is a native of 

 Peru. It was turned out of a large pot, about four years since, into its pre- 

 sent situation, the conservatory. Not only would we invite the attention of 

 the horticulturist to this plant, but also to the pleasure-grounds of Lewiston, 

 so tastefully laid out, and in such admirable order as we have rarely witnessed. 

 Although the honourable possessor of them may recommend reform in other 

 places [alluding, we suppose, to Mr. Gordon's exertions as chairman of the 

 committee for enquiring into the affairs of the London Horticultural Society, 

 in 1830 (see VI. 235.)], he can scarcely wish for any here. The gardens in- 



