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Domestic Notices : — England. 



The Chester Nursery, containing upwards of 70 acres, was purchased by 

 Messrs. F. and J. Dickson, in 1836; and a correspondent informs us that it 

 is now laid out and arranged in a manner superior to most nurseries in this 

 kingdom. Along the main walks, there are specimen trees and shrubs of all 

 the finer kinds; and so favourable are the soil and situation, and so mild the 

 climate, that the plants scarcely suffered anything from the winter of 1837-8. 

 The number of species and varieties of Coniferae in this nursery exceeds a 

 hundred, of every one of which there is a specimen planted out. — T. B. 

 Manchester, Dec. 1839. 



Mr. Nichols of Blundestone, as a Landscape-Gardener. — This gentleman, 

 the author of Village Mevioirs, displayed great taste in laying out grounds. 

 His own residence, Blundestone, near Lowestoft, is mentioned by Gray and 

 others as a remarkably beautiful place, and it was entirely his own creation. 

 Though a clergyman, as well as a man of property, he not only found time to 

 improve his own estate, but, as Mr. Fenn informs us, he " planned the grounds 

 of a great number of gentlemen in his neighbourhood : as Sir Thos. Gooch, 

 Benacre Hall ; Sir Edmund Bacon, Raveningham Hall; Sir Thos. Beauchamp, 

 Proctor, Langley Hall ; and many others." — T. Fenn. Beccles, Oct. 29. 

 1839. 



PrisonGardening. — In the New Prison, Clerkenwell, one prisoner is employed 

 as a gardener. He cultivates the prison garden, the produce of which is princi- 

 pally for the use of the governor; it also furnishes celery, leeks, and parsley 

 for the prisoners' soup. Other prisoners are occasionally employed to assist 

 the gardener, and for the sake of their health. {Fourth Report of the Inspec- 

 tors of the Prisons of the Metropolis, as quoted in the Morn. Chron. Oct. 30.) 



English Elms. — We are anxious to draw the attention of nurserymen, and 

 country gentlemen who are planters, to the different varieties of English elm 

 grown in the Canterbury Nursery, These varieties have been described in Vol. 

 Xin. p. 28., and also in our Arboretian, vol. iii. p. 1373.; but the elm is such 

 an influential tree in the scenery of every country in which, as in England, it is 

 generally planted, and it is so peculiarly an English tree, that it will bear being 

 brought more than once or twice before our readers. Having to order a col- 

 lection of these elms from Mr. Masters, for the Derby Arboretum, we requested 

 him to send us specimens of this year's shoots of average length of his different 

 species and varieties, and the following are the measurements : 



montana 



rugosa, p. 1398 

 major, p. 1398 

 minor, p. 1398 

 pendula, p. 1398 

 fastigiata, p. 1399 

 crispa, p. 1399 



glabra vegeta (the Hunting, 

 don elm), p. 1404 

 major, p. 1404 

 pendula, p. 1405 - 



The comparative growth of these elms will be displayed in the Derby Ar- 

 boretum, and, we trust, be the means of the more general introduction in 

 plantations of the more rapid-growing kinds. — Co7id. 



AVer LobelW. — This species, though one of the most beautiful of the acers, 

 with a leaf having the fine shining surface of A. jolatanoides, and the texture of 

 A. obtusatum, with a striped bark like that of A. striatum, is almost unknown 

 in the nurseries. It may be interesting to cultivators to be reminded that 

 there is a large tree of it in the collection at Croome, near Worcester, from 

 which grafts, we should suppose, might be obtained; and in some years it 

 ripens seeds.— J^K. Clarke. Croome Park, Oct. 12. 1839. 



Summer shoot 

 of 1839. 



C/'lmus. 



ft, in. 



campestris Arb. Brit, p. 1375 

 alba, p. 1375 



3 6 

 3 10 



acutifolia, p. 1375 



4 6 



stricta, p. 1375 



3 6 



virens, p. 1375 



4 6 



viminalis, p. 1 375 - 



3 



suberosa vulgaris, p. 1395 



5 



foliis variegatis, p. 1395 - 



1 6 



alba, p. 1395 - 



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montana, p. 1398 



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