Domestic Notices : — England. 207 



present winter, P. longifolia and palustris. Well worth taking notice of are the 

 following: — Cratse^gus^terifolia, the most graceful of them all, and quite new, 

 it is from North America ; Pterocarya caucasica, a beautiful tree, and hardy ; 

 Quercus mongolica, hardy; Corylus heterophylla, a handsome shrub, and 

 hardy ; Populus salicifolia, new ; Platanus digitata, fine tree ; ^mygdalus to- 

 mentosula, a rapidly-growing tree, and \ery ornamental j /iHiies caerulea; the 

 Populus of the Prince d'Aremberg, a new species or variety of the silver 

 poplar, growing much more rapidly than the old one. — John Booth. 



AMERICA. 



TTie Catalogue of Vegetable, Herb, Flower, Tree, and Grass Seeds ; bulbous 

 and tuberous flower roots; ornamental green-house shrubs ; and herbaceous 

 perennial flowering plants ; agricultural, horticultural, and botanical books, 

 &c., on sale by Hovey and Co. of Boston, has been sent us. It is astonishingly 

 complete, occupying 50 pages very closely printed, and in a very small type. 

 It is gratifying to find that there is already a demand in America for such a 

 number of articles of elegance and luxurj'. 



Ornamental Tree Society/. — The Middlesex Whig contains a report of the 

 Concord Ornamental Tree Society ; the objects of which are to set out trees 

 in public squares, avenues, and roads. We deem associations of this kind of 

 very great usefulness. (New York Farmer and American Gardener's Ma- 

 gazine?) 



A Species of Elm, called the Slippery or Red Elm, produces, in America, a 

 farinaceous substance said to be remarkably nutritious, and palatable for debi- 

 litated and sick persons. (Ibid.) 



The Date Palm Tree has been planted with success in Georgia. A branch 

 has lately been exhibited in Savannah, containing about 200 dates of a rich 

 golden colour. (Ibid.) 



Botanical Tour. — Among the passengers in the South America, which 

 sailed from New York on Dec. 1., for Liverpool, were Messrs. Brown and 

 Macnab. These gentlemen arrived at New York in June last, on a botanical 

 tour through the United States and Canada, under the auspices of the Royal 

 Botanic Garden of Edinburgh. They have, dui'ing this short period, explored 

 an immense tract of country ; and have taken back with them several hundred 

 new plants, to add to that already splendid establishment. They express 

 themselves delighted with our Eden-like wilderness, glorious-decked-margin 

 rivers, and magnificent lakes. They have, in pursuance of their object, taken 

 up their abode in dreary forests and marshes, and paddled their canoe with 

 the Indians on Lake Huron. These scientific expeditions having matters of 

 pure taste in view, it is to be hoped, will be often repeated; as there is, per- 

 haps, no region on earth so full of interest to the lover of botanical research 

 as North America ; whose noble lakes, rivers, and prairies are, from the month 

 of May till September, perfect gardens of the most beautiful flowers and 

 shrubs ; and which, for the most part, succeed admirably when transplanted 

 into the well-kept gardens of Europe. (Ibid.) Messrs. Brown and Macnab 

 have since arrived in Scotland; and an interesting extract from Mr. Macnab's 

 journal is given in the Quarterly Journal of Agriculture for March, v. 594. 

 From this specimen, which is rich in its remarks on trees, it is much to be 

 desired that the entire journal should be published, as it would do for the 

 gardener and forester what Mr. ShirrefF's tour (see p. 197.) has done for the 

 farmer. 



Art. III. Domestic Notices. 



ENGLAND. 



Australian Trees at Coed Ithil, near Chepstow, the residence of Capt. 

 R. H. Fleming, R. N. The blue gum (Eucalyptus) stands frost as well, or, 

 indeed, rather better, than the common laurel. It has been planted three 



