Domestic Notices : — Ungland. 1 05 



Good wheat, oats, and rye were growing. The harvest was expected to end 

 in the middle of December, and to be a good one. The climate was fine, and 

 the air cheering and exhilarating. Very little thunder has been experienced 

 since the formation of the colony. Kangaroo flesh is abundant, and very good 

 food. Milk, fresh butter, and very good bread are abundant; also Cape wine, 

 vegetables, and sometimes wild ducks and fish. (Extract from a Letter from 

 the Swan River, in the Hull Advertiser, May, 1834.) 



Our Correspondents at the Swan River, Van Diemen^s Land, and Sydney will 

 much oblige us by stating what species of European timber and ornamental 

 trees have been introduced into these colonies, how they thrive, in what year 

 they were first planted, and what size they have attained. Many species, we 

 know, have been planted in the Government Botanic Garden at Sydney; and, 

 for an account of them, we some time ago sent a Return Paper to the curator, 

 Mr. Cunningham, to which we are certain he will pay due attention. — Cond. 



Art. III. Domestic Notices, 



ENGLAND. 



The Nctv Forest in Hampshire consists altogether of 63,000 acres ; 6000 of 

 which are well enclosed, and planted with oak timber trees, between rows of 

 Scotch pines and sweet chestnuts, as a protection from the destructive winds. 

 The enclosures consist of from 100 acres to 500 acres each, and are well 

 fenced in from the deer and numerous cattle of the forest. As the young 

 oaks grow into wood, the pine and chestnut trees are lopped and I'emoved. 

 We never witnessed a plantation, even on a small scale in a nursery, in a more 

 healthy and growing state than are the young oaks in these enclosures. In 

 the open part of the forest are numerous woods of full-grown timber trees ; 

 large quantities of which are occasionally cut down, the best being used or 

 preserved as timber for the British navy, and the inferior timber sold for 

 various purposes. The forest is- under the management of Mr. Robt. Turner, 

 whose ability in the plantation and protection of the young trees is the admir- 

 ation of the country, and of foreigners in particular. (Portsmouth Herald.) 

 Mr. Page of Southampton kindly promised, above a year ago, to furnish us 

 with some information respecting the different modes of planting adopted in 

 different parts, and by different persons, in the New Forest ; and we expect 

 shortly to hear from him on the subject. — Cond. 



The tr7te Love Apple. — A splendid shrub, 10 ft. or 12 ft. high, under this 

 name, has lately flowered in Miller's Nursery, Bristol, and is now (Jan. 2. 

 1835) covered with egg-shaped fruit, of a deep crimson colour. The fruit 

 are about the size of those of Passiflora quadrangularis, and hang down in the 

 same manner, but in clusters of three and four. Mr. Miller has not been able 

 hitherto to propagate the plant either by cuttings or layers, but he hopes 

 now to be able to do so from seeds. It is not unlikely that this plant 

 may be found to be half-hardy. It is, we learn, the (Solanum 6etaceum of 

 Hort. Brit. 



The Bee-jioivered Ophrys {O^phrys apifera) abounds on the rocks in this 

 neighbourhood. The height it usually attains here is from 7 in. to 12 in.; but 

 a plant of it, which I last year transplanted into a pot, in October, just as it 

 began to appear above ground, and placed in a warm room, grew rapidly, and 

 flowered in April. Its appearance was then splendid ; for the flower-stem was 

 nearly 2 ft. long, and covered from the top to the bottom with its singular bee- 

 shapetl blossoms. I am convinced that this curious and beautiful flower may 

 be greatly improved by cultivation ; and I shall be happy to send you or any 

 of your correspondents tubers of it. — R. Dyncley Chamberlain. Skiptonin 

 Craven, Nov. 19. 1834. 



Plants in Flower in the open Ground at Whitmo)-e Lodge, the Residetice of 

 Robert Mangles, Esq., near Sunning Hill, Berkshire, f-om luhich a Nosegay luas 



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