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has, also, been enlarged ; and it is proposed to remove and greatly 

 enlarge the Botanic Garden of Cambridge. The Oxford Bo- 

 tanic Garden has received a new stimulus, in consequence of the 

 appointment of Dr. Daubeny as botanical professor. In the 

 garden of the London Horticultural Society a small natural 

 arrangement was formed last spring by Dr. Lindley, on the 

 principle of his Nixus Plantarum ; and one has been laid out in 

 the Chelsea Botanic Garden, on the linear succession principle 

 followed by De Candolle. In the Kew Garden a palm-house 

 of considerable dimensions is marked out, and the work com- 

 menced. At Bristol a Zoological Garden and an Arboretum are 

 projected; and a public garden is also commenced at Gravesend. 

 In the Edinburgh Botanic Garden additional hot-houses are 

 erecting, and a great accession to the ligneous plants of this 

 garden has been made by Mr. Macnab, jun., in consequence of a 

 tour made by him in America in the autumn of 1834. In Ire- 

 land great improvements are taking place in the Glasnevin 

 Garden, under the curatorship of Mr. Niven ; and the Belfast 

 Botanic Garden has been completed under the care of Mr. 

 Campbell. 



Cemeteries have been laid out in many places, and are pro- 

 jected in others. Indeed, they are so conducive to both the 

 health and convenience of the inhabitants of towns, that we have 

 no doubt they will become universal in a few years. 



Private Gardens. — We are not aware of any thing remark- 

 able having occurred, during the past year, in the way of forming 

 or laying out new gardens or residences, or of improving those 

 which already exist, with the exception of the extensive Arbore- 

 tum commenced by the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth, 

 and an immense palm-house, projected for the same princely 

 demesne. The Duke of Bedford is about commencing, or rather 

 completing, an Arboretum at Woburn Abbey, by adding spe- 

 cimens of other trees and shrubs to his already extensive collec- 

 tion of willows. The Earl of Mountnorris has not only added 

 to his collection of foreign trees and shrubs at Arley Hall, but 

 has sent a collector to New Zealand, in the hope of discovering 

 some ligneous plants in the mountainous parts of that country. 

 Next year we hope to record the formation of various arboretums, 

 and other gardening improvements, accounts of which will pro- 

 bably be sent us more generally than heretofore, when it is seen 

 how essential they are to enable us to fill up our proposed yearly 

 Retrospective View. It has been observed to us by others, and 

 we have observed it ourselves, during our occasional tours, that 

 the gardens of cottagers by the road side have wonderfully 

 improved within these few years ; and we have before often 

 observed that, in many parts of the country, dahlias, fuchsias, and 

 other new plants are to be seen in them, which were formerly 



