THE 



GARDENER'S MAGAZINE, 



OCTOBER, 1835. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. Notes made during a Tour to Chertsey, Woking, Bagshot, 

 Reading, Farnham, Milford, Dorking, and Epsom, betuoeen the 12th 

 and 22d of August, 1835. By the Conductor. 



We interrupt the series of articles on our tour in 1833, to give 

 place to these notes, because some of them are comparatively of 

 immediate interest. The object of our present tour was to ex- 

 amine the trees in the arboretums of the Goldv^'orth Nursery, 

 White Knights, and the Milford Nursery ; and to notice such 

 others as fell in our way. 



We may observe, here, that it will not be too late during the 

 next three months to send us the dimensions of trees for our 

 Arboretum ; and that we are just as anxious to receive the dimen- 

 sions of the common oaks, elms, ashes, sycamores, beeches, &c., 

 of the country, as we are those of foreign trees. We mention 

 this, because, during this excursion, we found some gardeners 

 who thought common trees not of sufficient interest for our 

 work. In order to convince others, who may entertain the same 

 opinion, that this is by no means the case, we shall in a future 

 Number show the use which we intend to make of the Return 

 Papers in the Arboretum Britannicum, by inserting a specimen 

 of what we mean to say of the Magnolm grandiflora, as being 

 one of the finest of foreign trees ; and of the common sycamore, 

 as one of the trees of most frequent occurrence. It will be seen 

 how many more returns we have had of the former tree than of 

 the latter, which we can only account for from the cause men- 

 tioned. We shall also show, in another paper (Art. IV.), a 

 simple mode of ascertaining the height of large trees ; to all 

 which particulars we are anxious to direct the attention of those 



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