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out a collector of tree seeds to the Americas for a year or two. It would 

 even be worth a nurseryman's while to do so, if he were certain that no such 

 association as that we are hinting at would enter into competition with him. 

 We can recommend an admirable person as a collector, a philosopher, a bo- 

 tanist, and a man full of enthusiasm for exploring a new country. — Cond. 



A^cer str'mtum, the Striped-barked, or Pennsylvaiiian, Maple. — The finest spe- 

 cimen of this much neglected tree is on a lawn in front of a house near Maid- 

 enhead, which, in 1819, was occupied by Mr. Needham. We saw the tree in 

 that year, and, by describing the place to a friend who was passing that way, 

 he procured us the dimensions of it. It was planted in 1814, and is now 16 ft. 

 6 in. high ; about as great a height as it ever attains in this country. Its 

 branches cover a space of 60 ft. in circumference, and its trunk, at 1 ft. from 

 the ground, girts 2 ft. 10 in. Our correspondent has forgotten to mention the 

 name of the seat, which, perhaps, some of our readers can suppl3\ This fine 

 specimen of so singular and so beautiful a tree, and, also, another in Farnham 

 Park, remind us of the injustice done to this species in the arboretum of the 

 Horticultural Society, where it is placed under the drip of another tree, and is 

 altogether a most miserable specimen, not at all likely to tempt a planter, 

 though there are few trees more desirable for a small residence. Had the 

 trees in the Horticultural Society's garden only been placed singly, instead of 

 being huddled together in groups, and never properly thinned or attended to, 

 their beauty, and their value in a scientific point of view, would have been ten- 

 fold what they are at present, and what they are ever likely to become. — 

 Cond, 



'Ramamelis virginica. — This tree is now beautifully in flower at Messrs. 

 Loddiges's, and in Thomson's Nursery, Mile End, Its yellow blossoms, with 

 their long fringe-like corollas, at this season of the year, when so few trees 

 and shrubs are in flower, are most ornamental : its leaves die off" of a rich deep 

 yellow or orange. It is a pity to see such a tree so much neglected. Mr. 

 Macnab, jun., whose interesting journey in Isorth America we noticed in 

 p. 620., and shall have occasion to recur to, informs us that it attains the 

 height of 15ft. or 20ft. in its native situations in America; and he brought 

 home a piece of the trunk of one tree, for a gentleman (Mr. Nicol of Edin- 

 burgh) who is now making observations on different sorts of timber, between 

 5 in. and 6 in. in diameter. — Cond. 



Macliira. aurantiaca. — We would strongly recommend the planting of this 

 tree, as likely to be highly ornamental when it attains a fruit-bearing age. 

 The male and female should, if possible, be planted together ; but, when this 

 cannot be conveniently done, either sex can be planted ; and when the tree 

 gets large, it may be trained so as to have two main limbs, and on one of these, 

 the sex wanted may be grafted. From a fruit kindly sent us by Dr. Mease, we 

 took out the seeds and distributed them, and young plants have been raised 

 from the seeds, both by M. Vilmorin of Paris, and by Mr. Gordon, the fore- 

 man of the arboretum of the garden of the London Horticultural Society, and 

 at Mr. Dennis's. In a letter from Philadelphia, which will be found in our 

 succeeding volume, the writer expresses his conviction that the tree will ripen 

 its fruit in the south of England ; and of this we have no doubt. — Cond. 



The Carambola [Averrhoa Carambdla, from Ceylon in 1733] has fruited, for 

 the first time in Britain, in the stove of Mr. Bateman of Knypersley, near Con- 

 gleton ; a gentleman distinguished for his zeal, liberality, and success in intro- 

 ducing and cultivating tropical epiphytes. Mr. P. N. Don, the intelligent 

 gardener at Knypersley, mentions that, "during the last autumn (1834), the 

 tree fruited in great abundance." The fruit is of the size and shape of a duck 

 egg, but with angles on the sides. It " was used by the family for tarts, and 

 also for preserves, and was allowed, by excellent judges, to be superior, for plea- 

 sant flavour, to any thing they had ever tasted." — P. N. July, 1835. 



Exotics in the Isle of Anglesea. — Having been at Baronhill, in the Isle of 

 Anglesea, the other day, I was astonished to see fine specimens of myrtles, 

 some of them 18 ft. high, growing out of doors, which had never been pro- 



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