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only its leaves are so glaucous as to be almost white. It is perfectly hardy, 

 and promises to be a very striking tree. J^bies Menziesi? and Morinda are of 

 the spruce fir section, and grow very freely. If there were a demand for all 

 these species in the nurseries, they would soon be as common, and as cheap, 



as cedars of Lebanon. Again we strongly recommend them for pinetums. 



Cond. 



Tilia europcs^a var. ruhricaulis, — This variety, we are informed by M. de 

 Wael the director of the Botanic Garden of Antwerp, is quite distinct from 

 our Tilia europae^a var. rubra, or var, corallina, or from any other variety 

 which he has seen in this country. It was raised from seeds in the garden of 

 Baron Eckeren, near Utrecht, from which place it was sent to the garden of 

 the Chateau de Cantecroy, whence M. de Wael procured cuttings. The tree 

 in this garden appears to be about ten years old. Cuttings will be sent to the 

 garden of the Horticultural Society ; and, if it should be found to be really a 

 distinct variety, it may be afterwards distributed to nurserymen and amateurs. 

 J^ cer Pseiido-Vlatanus var. f 61. argenteis. — M. de Wael says he has a very 

 distinct variety, of which he has also promised cuttings to the Horticultural 

 Society. 



PIdnersL vdmifolia, or aquatica, or Gmelinz, or americana, for it has all these 

 names, is a species quite distinct from the trees of Planers in the arbo- 

 retums at Kew, at Loddiges, and in the Chiswick Garden ; but, as a timber 

 tree, it is of no value. Specimens of it have been brought to us from the Paris 

 garden, along with a number of others from that quarter, M. Vilmorin, and M. 

 Cels, by Mr. Lawson, the eminent seedsman of Edinburgh. This gentleman has 

 laid us under the greatest obligations to him, both for his kind services while 

 on his recent tour on the Continent, and for his great exertions in sending our 

 return papers to different parts of Scotland. The account of the specimen 

 trees in Mr. Lawson's nursery has been drawn up with so much accuracy, 

 and contains so much valuable information, that we contemplate giving it entire 

 in a future Number. — Cond. 



h^cer drcmalwn, of which I send specimens in flower, appears to be a tree 

 of considerable beauty, though of slow growth, preferring to any soil I have 

 seen it in that of a very light sandy peat earth. I should say that, from its 

 slowness of growth and present appearance, it is likely to form, when large, a 

 very compact and highly ornamental tree : in fact, I believe it was represented 

 as such in its natural habitat by its introducer, the unfortunate Douglas. It 

 propagates freely by layering. — T. M. Lindsay. High Clere Gardens, June 1. 

 1835. 



Gladiolus natalensis has remained uncovered all last winter, and is now 

 growing with great luxuriance, equal, if not better, than those bulbs of it which 

 were taken up in the usual way. — Id. 



A Head of late White Broccoli was lately exhibited in the shop window of 

 Mr. B. Saunders, in Halket Place, Jersey, weighing upwards of 7 lb., mea- 

 suring 3 ft. in circumference, and perfectly solid : also ten heads of asparagus, 

 weighing 1 lb., or upwards of an ounce and a half per head. (Jersey British 

 Press, May 10. 1835.) 



SCOTLAND. 



The Watt Institidion at Dundee appears to be one of the most complete and 

 best conducted associations of the kind in the kingdom. By the Eleventh 

 Annual Report, which has been forwarded to us, we find that a great many lec- 

 tures have been delivered on almost every subject, and also a great many 

 books collected. It is greatly to the honour of the citizens of Dundee, that 

 many of these lectures have been delivered by tradesmen. For example ; on 

 Vegetable In-itability, Parasitic Plants, Form and Use of the Nectaria and 

 Corollas, three lectures by W. Gardiner, jun., umbrella-maker; on Galvanism, 

 by Alexander Blaikie, fiax-dresser ; on the Natural Arrangement of Plants, 

 also by W. Gardiner, jun. ; on Gases, by John Murray, flax-dresser; and so 



