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point of junction might be, some traces of it would be found. 

 The roots extend under almost all the inhabited part of Somma; 

 and, when a public well was dug there, some of them were found 

 above 150 ft. below the surface. The tree, in 1810, was struck 

 by lightning, which destroyed great part of its beautiful head. 

 The inhabitants assert that for half a century it has been evi- 

 dently in a state of decay ; and this is ascribed not only to its 

 age, but to the formation of the new road of the Simplon, which 

 mutilated so many of its roots, that I was told they were carried 

 away in carts. 



" You may see by the drawing that the tree is now rather scant 

 of branches ; but I was told that when it was in a flourishing 

 condition, people might have been sheltered under it from the 

 rain ; such was its richness in branches and foliage. When 

 Bonaparte gave orders for the formation of the road across the 

 Simplon, which was to be in long straight lines, he ordered that 

 the line which approached the cypress should deviate from its 

 directness, so that respect might be paid to so extraordinary a 

 production of nature. You will see from the figure, that it is the 

 Cupressus sempervirens horizontalis. — Monza, April 24. 1837." 



To do these two celebrated trees justice, they ought both to 

 have been drawn to the same scale ; but, to have drawn the 

 Cypress of Mistra to the same scale as our engraving of the 

 Cypress of Somma, would have made the former engraving much 

 too large for our pages. — Condi. 



REVIEWS. 



Art. I. Catalogue of Works on Gardening, Agriculture, Botany, 

 Rural Architecture, 8$c, lately published, with some Account of 

 those considered the more interesting. 



Sweet's Hortus Britannicus ; a Catalogue of all the Plants, indigenous or cul- 

 tivated in the Gardens of Great Britain, arranged according to the Natural 

 System, §c. By Robert Sweet, F.L.S., &c. Third edition, greatly enlarged 

 and improved. Edited by George Don, F.L.S. 8vo, pp. 799. London, 

 1839. 



A greatly improved edition of a very excellent work. The arrangement 

 being according to the natural system, in that respect the work is superior to 

 our own Hortus Britannicus ; but it is inferior to it in one very important par- 

 ticular for the young gardener, viz., that the specific names are not always 

 literally translated, as they are in our work. Neither does it contain the 

 heights of the plants, nor the habitats of the British species. It is also totally 

 without the Cryptogamia; and it wants those general views of the natural orders 

 which were supplied to us by Dr. Lindley. Nevertheless, Sweet's Hortus Bri- 

 tannicus is an excellent work ; and, when we produce a new edition of our 

 Hortus Britannicus, we will adopt the natural arrangement also. 



The Hot-house and Green-house Manual, or Botanical Cultivator ; giving full 

 Instructions for the Management and Propagation of the Plants cultivated in the 



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