1 52 Domestic Notices : — Englatid^ 



48| acres in one spot ; nearly in the centre of which is situated the great 

 " elm," a drawing of which Messrs. Thorburn of New York sent you some 

 time since. [We have never received it; and we have written to Dr. Mease 

 for information about this very ehn.] It is a beautiful piece of undulated 

 ground, and has avenues of trees on three sides. From the other side, the view 

 of the country across Charles River is very fine ; extending to Cambridge, 

 Brighton, Waterstone, &c. We are extremely sorry you had not more 

 information respecting the cemetery and garden of Mount Auburn, the pro- 

 perty of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. We have sent you the 

 address delivered to the Society respecting it by Mr. Story ; because, we 

 think, you will there find a description of it much better than that you have 

 extracted from the North American. Review. This address abounds with elo- 

 quent and beautiful passages, which, we think, you will greatly admire. We 

 intend publishing a magazine similar to yours, about the 1st of January, which 

 we hope to have the pleasure of sending you. We are dealers in seeds and 

 plants in this city; and have enclosed one of our catalogues with the other 

 pamphlets. In our magazine, we shall give detailed accounts, probably with 

 cuts, of some of the fine establishments in the vicinity of Boston. - You are 

 not aware to what an extent we are going in horticulture. One very rich 

 gentleman has, this season, built a splendid range of green-houses, stoves, 

 pineries, peacheries, pits, &c., about 330 ft. in length ; and has spared no pains 

 or expense to erect them in the first style. He has built a beautiful tower in 

 the Ionic style, which stands in the rear of the range of houses, and is seen 

 just above them from the garden. He has a fountain erected in the centre of 

 the garden, which is supplied from a cistern in this tower. The water is forced 

 up into the cistern by steam power. The whole range of houses is heated by 

 hot water, which in the green-house runs under the walk. The whole is built 

 in the most perfect manner. The expense already has been about 80,000 dol- 

 lars; and many and great improvements are yet to be made. We shall, if we 

 obtain the consent of the proprietor, give a full account of this place, the suc- 

 cess of heating it by hot water, &c. The green-house in the centre has the 

 front lights about 6 ft. high, set with the finest plate glass. — H. 



Art. II. Domestic Notices. 

 ENGLAND. 



Baron Karwinsky's Collection of succulent and other rare Mexican Plants 

 has been noticed in X. 323. A few of the rarest of these are shortly expected 

 in London for sale. They are said to be of extraordinary beauty and interest; 

 and the prices will be high. The disposal of them, we believe, will be left to 

 Mr. Charlwood, 



The Chimonanthus frdgrans is now (Feb. 6.), and has been for the last six 

 weeks, covered with expanded blossoms, in the common shrubbery of the 

 Twickenham Botanic Garden, Mr. Castles, the curator of that garden, not 

 only finds it as hardy as the common syringa, or the lilac, but also that it 

 blooms far more abundantly as a standard or bush, than it does when 

 trained against a wall. The fragrance not only perfumes the whole g.irden, 

 but all the neighbourhood ; and, in the direction of the wind (a gentleman, 

 who called a few days since on Mr. Castles, informs us), it may be smelt half 

 a mile off; as is the case with the Caprifolium flexuosum. At certain seasons, 

 when these two shrubs are in flower, a stranger may literally smell his way to 

 the Twickenham Garden. 



The Lancashire Botanical and Horticultural Booh Society. — A Society has 

 been formed, at Lancaster, for taking in all the best periodical works on 

 botany and gardening; to commence on Jan. 1. 1835. There are to be twenty 

 members, who are to pay 125. per annum each. This Society is likely to be a 

 very useful one. — M. Saul. Suli/ard Street, Lancaster, Dec. 16. 1834. 



Trees in the Fidham Nursery. — Among the trees in this nursery, the fol- 



