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at Charing Cross even more commonplace than that which has 

 been erected. It contained three tiers of glazed windows, and 

 eight or ten doors at regular distances ; and, in fact, was only 

 distinguishable from a row of street houses by having a central 

 portico and some other columns and cupolas. If these had been 

 removed, it would have been impossible to distinguish the 

 proposed public building from a row of private houses. 



Milford Nursery is, like most others, suffering for want of 

 rain ; and in it, as in them, the chief business of the workmen at 

 present is watering. There are a great many new things in this 

 nursery which have not yet been figured in British publications, 

 because they will be so, very shortly, in a work preparing by 

 P. B. Webb, Esq., and the botanist M. Brotero. In the mean- 

 time, Mr. Penny is preparing a catalogue of the more rare 

 things, which will soon be printed. As our attention was chiefly 

 directed to the trees, we were pleased to see some thousands of 

 young plants of the sessile-fruited oak ; and to have ocular de- 

 monstration, on a large scale, that this species or variety is, at 

 least in its young state, of much more rapid and robust growth 

 than the stalk-fruited oak ; Messrs. Young and Penny having a 

 large compartment of each sort in their nursery placed adjoining 

 each other, on purpose to show the difference between them. 

 The sessile-fruited oak may be tolerably well distinguished from 

 the other, even in its young state and without acorns, from the 

 majority of the leaves being less sinuated, and having longer 

 footstalks. The trees from which the acorns of the sessile-fruited 

 oak were taken by Mr. Young stand at Burningfold, near Duns- 

 fold or Plaistow, in Surrey, and are the property of Mrs. Woods 

 of Shopwick, near Chichester. We understand they are re- 

 markably fine trees, and we are promised their dimensions. The 

 acorns of the sessile-fruited oak being smaller than those of the 

 other sort, no regular gatherer of acorns will ever collect them 

 unless paid an extra price. Hence the great difficulty which 

 those who know the real value of this oak, and wish to grow it, 

 have in procuring its acorns. In our Arhoretum Britannicum we 

 shall have to bring together a great variety of opinions on the 

 merits of these two species of oaks ; and, in the mean time, we 

 invite our readers to send us every kind of information in their 

 power respecting them ; and we particularly beg of them to look 

 out for both sessile and stalk-fruited acorns on the same branch 

 of the same tree, and to send us dried specimens if they should 

 find any. 



The Arhoretum at Milford House has undergone several muti- 

 lations since we last saw it ; and some of the trees have been 

 lopped in a manner ruinous to their beauty, especially the pines 

 and the oaks. We particularly regret a beautiful tree of 

 Quercus palustris, a variety of American oak, different from any 



