678 Domestic Notices : — England. 



kinds, it is without a rival in the neighbourhood of Paris. We have seen the 

 price current for this nursery for 1834< and 1835, in eight small Svo pages, and 

 we are astonished at the variety of articles enumerated, and at the low price 

 of many of them. For example. Acacia Julibrissin, one year from the seed, at 

 6 francs per 100; Aila7ihis giandulosa at the same price ; Cornus florida, 15 

 francs per 100; -Fraxinus americana epiptera, 12 francs per 100; the com- 

 mon ash, three years old, and transplanted, 15 francs per 1000; F. /entiscifolia, 

 three years old, transplanted, 8 francs per 100; i^raxinus O'rnus, 5 francs per 

 100, and so on ; Piniis Laricio, two years old, 18 francs per 100; and the 

 different varieties of Pinus sylvestris, such as de Riga, de Hagueneau, rigida, 

 rubra, &c., 5 francs per 100. The American oaks are equally cheap ; Quercus 

 tinctoria, three years old, is only 10 francs the 100. The cheapness of trees 

 and shrubs at this establishment must surely contribute to the spread of arbo- 

 retums, or, at all events, of mixed plantations of foreign trees and plants. 



The culture of exotic plants at Fromont is, if possible, still more remarkable 

 than that of hardy trees and shrubs. Besides the price current for 1835, which 

 we have quoted, we have before us another Bulletin for camellias for that 

 year ; one for roses ; one for peat-earth plants ; one for green-house and con- 

 servatory plants ; one for dwarf dahlias ; one for azaleas, of which the col- 

 lection exceeds 150 varieties ; and for herbaceous plants ; in all eight different 

 Bulletins, or Catalogues. 



Art. III. Domestic Notices. 

 ENGLAND. 



The Trees of New Zealand. — My junior gai'dener is gone out with a friend 

 of mine to New Zealand, chiefly for the purpose of collecting plants and seeds 

 for me. I am in hopes of receiving many things which will bear this climate, 

 particularly the forest trees from the hills, which are frequently covered with 

 snow. He will stay there for three years. Although I am quite as mad after 

 the epiphytes as even my friend Bateman, yet I own 1 would rather obtain a 

 few timber trees which would bear our climate. — M, March, 1835. 



A Hand Water-Engine, on an entirely new principle, has lately been invented 

 by Mr. Read, the patentee of the best of all our garden syringes. This new in- 

 vention, of which we expect soon to be able to give an engraving and descrip- 

 tion, is very little larger than the syringe, but it has a tube added to it, which, 

 being inserted in a pot or bucket full of water, gives the instrument all the 

 powers of a garden engine, with less than half the exertion required for working 

 the latter machine. The power gained is by the condensation of air in a tube or 

 barrel, parallel to that in which the piston works; so that the invention might 

 not unjustly be called Reid's double-barreled syringe. The whole instrument, 

 including the length of the handle, and the tube, which can be screwed on and 

 oiF, is only 3 ft. long, and the barrel part is but half that length. The price is 

 only 50s. We have seen it at work, and consider that, for all ordinary purposes 

 it will supersede both the garden syringe and the garden engine. — Co7id. 



The Pine and Fir Tribe. — We should like much to see the same enthu- 

 siasm for this noble tribe of tre(2s as there now exists for Orchideae. Why 

 should not a number of landed proprietors join in a small subscription to send 

 out a botanical collector to North and South America, for the exclusive pur- 

 pose of bringing home seeds of trees likely to prove hardy ? This would be the 

 true way to render the araucarias abundant in the country. Who knows 

 but these noble trees may one day be as abundant in Britain as cedars of Le- 

 banon? The Araucdria irabricata is found to stand the open air quite well in 

 the neighbourhood of Edinburgh ; and, as it has stood so well at Kew, Drop- 

 more, Goldworth Arboretum, Spring Grove, &c., it may probably be just as 

 hardy as the common cedar. We repeat our hope, that some spirited gentle- 

 men will join in subscribing (say fifty persons) 10/. each per annum, and send 



