118 Arbor icultur at Notices, supplementary to 



number of other ornamental trees, far from being common in 

 English nurseries. M. Sedy's establishment is the oldest at 

 Lyons, and the best-arranged, especially with respect to house 

 plants. [In 1819, we spent about a week in Lyons, and M. 

 Sedy's nursery is the only one we recollect to have seen.] 



M. C/iapuis's Nursery, at Ste. Foy, is chiefly noticeable for its 

 collection of fruit trees. The fruit of the Beurre Coloma was 

 lasted by the committee, and found excellent ; but they were 

 told that the Beurre Bosc was still better. Here they observed 

 the difference between the Mornain blanc and the Chasselas de 

 Fontainebleau grapes ; the latter has the berries wider apart on 

 the bunch, with a much more firm flesh, almost cracking 

 between the teeth, and juice of a sweeter and more agreeable 

 taste. The broad-leaved elm is here propagated by cuttings. 

 M. Chapuis is celebrated also for his culinary vegetables. He 

 prefers cabbage seed that is two years old, to that of one year, 

 and grows le Cceur de Bceuf and le Chou de Milan (the drum- 

 head and the Savoy, or something near them) to a large size. 



Art. VI. Arboricultural Notices, collected from various Sources, in- 

 tended as supplementary to, or corrective of, the Information con- 

 tained in the " Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum" 



It is our intention to publish, from time to time, detached Supplements to 

 the Arboretum Britannicum, in the same manner as we have done, and are 

 doing, to our other works, in order that the purchasers of the first edition 

 may never find it necessary to purchase any other succeeding edition, unless 

 they think proper. Thus, we have published a detached Supplement to 

 the Encyclopaedia of Agriculture, we have a second detached Supplement 

 nearly ready for the Hortus Britannicus ; and we have one also in prepara- 

 tion for the Encyclopaedia of Plants. In as far as respects our Gardening and 

 Botanical works, all, or almost all, of the information contained in these 

 detached Supplements, is previously given in the Gardener 's Magazine, which, 

 indeed, may be considered as a continuous Supplement to the books already 

 mentioned, including the last and most elaborate of all our works, the Arboretum 

 et Fruticetum Britannicum. All persons, therefore, who have an opportunity 

 of perusing the Gardener's Magazine, will find in it all, or almost all, the 

 information which is contained in the Supplements, with the great advantage 

 of obtaining it as soon as it comes to our knowledge. 



In this article, which has special reference to the Arboretum, it is not our 

 intention to include all the information which we receive respecting trees and 

 and shrubs, but merely such corrections, and additional scraps of information, 

 as, if they were given under General Notices, or even under Floricultural 

 Notices, might escape observation. We shall arrange them in the same 

 order as the Arboretum Britannicum, commencing with what is historical, statis- 

 tical, and general, and then taking the natural orders in the same sequence as 

 they are given in the Arboretum. 



GEOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, AND STATISTICAL. 



Doubts as to certain Trees being Natives of Britain. — The Yew, Box, Furze, 

 and Elm, are admitted with difficulty by Mr. Loudon as natives. I ma}' 



