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travels through the Nepaul country he alighted upon and collected a great 

 variety of plants and seeds, which were not before known to have been in- 

 digenous to the climate of India. He, among other valuable exotics, discovered 

 the gentian shrub in Nepaul ; and it is mainly to this gentleman and to Captain 

 Jenkins, we are indebted for the valuable discovery of the tea plant in Assam. 

 What adds greatly to improve the scenery of the gardens is that goodly edifice, 

 Bishop's College, which stands at the extremity of the northern terminus of 

 the Jong avenue. It fronts the river, on a green plot of ground, and assumes 

 a commanding feature from the Hoogly. This college is built in the Gothic 

 style. The library is composed of one room, about 65 ft. in length, and is 

 well stocked in ancient and modern literature. The classification of the 

 works is admirably well arranged. The chapel is particularly neat, and 

 modelled after the collegiate style. On the left side of the altar is erected a 

 well-designed marble tablet to the memory of the late Dr. Fanshaw Middleton, 

 the first prelate of Calcutta, during whose episcopacy the foundation-stone of 

 Bishop's College was laid, under the auspices of the Incorporated Society for 

 the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. The hall is spacious and 

 airy, and at the south end is a very fine painting, a faithful portrait of the 

 late Bishop Heber in his episcopal robes, which was executed by Chinnery. 

 This building reflects much credit on the architect. I spent two months at 

 this college in the spring of the year, and I am ready to confess that the great 

 pleasure I derived from my visit, during the comparatively short time I tarried 

 there, was such as, had I had no other object in view, would have doubly re- 

 paid me for a voyage made out to India and back again. — Orientalis. March 

 13. 1839. {Morning Herald, April 5. 1839.) 



Art. III. Domestic Notices. 

 ENGLAND. 



BOTANIC Garden, Bury St. Edmunds. — William Borrer, Esq., F.L.S., &c. 

 of Henfield, near Brighton, has presented to our Botanic Garden a fine collec- 

 tion of willows (Malices), containing 130 varieties and species, both rare and 

 interesting. A more favourable spot for a salicetum, or willow walk, than 

 the banks of the river Lark, in the Abbey grounds, could not be selected ; and 

 the facility by which it can be effected may probably lead to more extensive 

 cultivation of the genus by many of the patrons and subscribers to the garden. 

 {Bury Post, Feb. 1839.) 



The Highgate Horticultural Society has just been instituted under the 

 auspices of a committee of ten respectable gentlemen resident in Highgate or 

 its neighbourhood. The honorary secretary is H. Tatham, Esq., of North 

 Road, Highgate. — B. 



Hot-water Apparatus at Capheaton. — The success of the hot-water 

 apparatus was fairly tested last winter in my garden. Two stoves of 80 ft. by 

 ] 8 ft. each, heated by one boiler, and the fires not meddled with from eight 

 at night till seven next morning, did not vary, during that period, above four or 

 five degrees, and of course no plants were injured. I have a peach-house, three 

 vineries of 30 ft. each, and a fig-house of 20 ft. (figs will not ripen here but 

 under glass), all heated with one boiler and one fire, and yet so contrived that 

 I can warm each house separately. Fuel is no object here, but the savin"- 

 of labour is very great. The two fire-places and two chimneys I have just 

 mentioned, which perform the work I have stated, are substituted for four- 

 teen fires ; when the houses were flued, it was one man's sole work to look 

 after the fires in spring. All smoke, dust, &c, are avoided in the houses, and 

 the external smoke is nothing now, and no sweeping and taking up flue covers. 

 — John E. Swinburne. Capheaton, December 1 . 1838. 



