Foreign Notices : — Italy. 



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are there in hundreds, and pictures in thousands. It honours, however, no art 

 but war ; and must stimulate powerfully that appetite for military glory which 

 has been the bane of the world, and of France more than any other country. 

 A gallery holding up war as a relic of primitive barbarism, and conquerors, 

 who love it for its own sake, as robbers and demi-savages, would promulgate a 

 great truth, beneficial to mankind. {Scotsman, Feb. 2. 1839.) 



The Government of Louis-Philippe has done more for education than all the 

 governments which had preceded it, from the year 1789. {Ibid.) 



The Spirit of moral Improvement is daily gaining strength in Paris. Insurance 

 against the casualties of life, savings' banks, infant schools, and other useful or 

 philanthropic institutions, are all making progress, and some of them with great 

 rapidity. (Ibid.) 



Paris has nothing to match Hyde Park and Regent' sP ark; but London cannot 

 boast of any thing like the gardens of the Tuileries and Luxembourg, the Place 

 de la Concorde, the Boulevards, and the Palais Royal. (Ibid.) 



A School of Agriculture, at Rouen, was established in December last, and 

 three courses of lectures, public and gratuitous, are to be given by Professors 

 Girardin, Ponchel, and Dubreuil fils. These lectures are on culture, agri- 

 cultural chemistry, and agricultural zoology. (UE'cho, Dec. 26. 1838.) 



A normal School of Agriculture has recently been established at Bordeaux, 

 by the authority of the Minister of Public Instruction. (Ibid.) 



ITALY. 



Monza, near Milan, February 14 

 which Sig. John Casoretti, director 

 year, 1838, are as follows : — 

 Ananassa bracteata. 



sativa var. Antigua royal, 

 new Otaheite. 

 gros clou, 

 white Jamaica. 

 Mehemet. 

 Alstrcem eria Hook en. 

 aurea. 

 oculata. 

 pildsa. 

 acutifdlia. 

 aurantiaca. 

 tricolor, 

 hirtella. 

 J'rbutus pilosa. 

 Azalea indica fldre rubro. 



ind. Smiths speciosissima. 

 semiplena. 

 triumphans. 

 Mazeppa. 

 phcenicea plena. 



alba plena, 

 fine dark purple, 

 speciosa. 

 Danielsiawa. 

 pulcherrima. 

 variegata. 

 lateritia. 

 macrantha. 

 orange pink, 

 coccinea superba. 

 dark crimson. 



1839. — Garden of Desio. The plants 

 of the garden of Desio, introduced last 



Brugmansza bicolor. 

 Berberis glumacea. 

 Camellia japonica fimbriata rubra, 

 japonica Campbells'. 



Floyw, or grand Frede- 

 rick, 

 ochroleuca. 

 picturata. 

 imbricata alba. 

 Admiral Nelson. 

 Lady Grafton. 

 Murrayawa. 

 Maclean?. 



maculata grandiflora. 

 Collect;. 

 Palmeri. 

 carminea. 

 Elisa. 

 Chorozema ovatum. 

 Clematis cserulea grandiflora plena. 



bicolor plena. 

 .Delphinium phoeniceum flore pleno. 

 jEuphorbwz jacquinicefldra. 

 Fuchsia fulgens. 



Watson's seedling. 

 Youngw. 

 superba. 

 Gesneria Douglasw. 

 Galardia picta. 

 Quercus Cerris variegata. 

 Novae Orleanensis. 



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