100 Domestic Notices : — England. 



are Scotch captains who never leave Kiga without taking some with them. I 

 regret exceedingly that I did not send you some along with the caviare. You 

 would have been convinced of the fact by sowing them yourself, or by giving 

 them to your friends. Although England has so many interesting plants, I 

 always think that the stock deserves a place in every garden as an ornamental 

 plant. Next year I shall take the liberty of sending you some seeds, and we 

 will be very much pleased if you will make a trial of them. 



The past summer was wet, but the autumn was very dry and pretty warm. 

 The vines on the walls of our house ripened their fruit very well, which is not 

 the case every year. The winter has not been severe as yet ; there has, how- 

 ever, been 13° of Reaumur, and a little snow. 



With the caviare you will receive a jar of little fishes, which are called here 

 kilostroinlinge ; they are taken at Rival, and preserved by laying them in al- 

 ternate layers with pepper and other spices, including the leaves of the jLaurus 

 nobilis. They are sent in these glass jars to every part of Europe, being 

 used like the little fishes called sardines (Cliipea Meletta L., Engraulis Mc- 

 letta Cuv.), and are esteemed a great delicacy, particularly at Paris. — F. E. 

 Wagner. 



The caviare or caviar, our readers are aware, is the roe of the sturgeon, 

 esteemed a very great delicacy by most people. It has long been sent to Lon- 

 don in a compressed and dried state, but has lately been sent quite fresli, 

 as it is used in Riga and Petersburg. It is an admirable substitute either 

 for butter or meat, or both, at breakfast, and for soup or fish at dinner. There 

 is nothing in the way of fish that we consider at all equal to it. At present 

 it is only imported by a few Italian warehousemen, and the only one we hap- 

 pen to know, who does so, is Mr. Ball, 81. New Bond Street, who sells it in 

 small casks at 155. each ; each cask containing about 3 lb. The kiiostrom- 

 linges, or, as the English in Riga call them, kilkies, are nothing more than 

 our sprats (Clupea Sprdttus L.), and tliey form an excellent substitute for 

 the anchovy or sprat of the South of Europe. They may also be obtained 

 of Mr. Ball. — CoKd 



Art. III. Domestic Notices. 

 ENGLAND. 



Specimens of Trees and Shrubs received from the Saiubridgeiuorth Nui%ery. — ■ 

 MahoHM ^quifolium, M. fascicularis, and Mr. Rivers's new hybrid M. repens- 

 fascicularis, as we propose to call it, between the last species and M. repens : 

 the leaflets of this hybrid are much larger than those of M. ^iquifohum, and 

 they are not quite so glaucous beneath as in that species. Gleditschia micra- 

 cantha : young wood very thorny; thorns small, and yet branched. G. si- 

 nensis, raised from seeds received from France : " a slow-growing variety or 

 species totally different from that described in the ArhoretumT Mr. Rivers 

 has sent us a rooted plant of this Gleditsch?«, which we shall plant and ex- 

 amine when it is in leaf. A shoot of the large-leaved European lime : 

 vigorous, with large buds, but clearly nothing more than niia europse'a grandi- 

 folia. A shoot oi Tilia americana : readily distinguished from the other by 

 its rough grey speckled bark. Quercus 71ex, several varieties : one of the 

 large round-leaved, with the leaves SJin. long, and 2* in. broad ; another the 

 small round-leaved, with leaves not above half the size, but of the same pro- 

 portion as to length and breadth. A narrow-leaved variety, called the willow- 

 leaved Quercus heterophylla, from New Holland, which appears to us to be 

 Quercus virens, a native of North America ; curled-leaved Lucombe oak, a 

 different variety from that which we received from Mr. Pince ; and the broad- 

 leaved Fulham oak, with leaves rather broader than the species : one of these 

 measures Si in. broad, and 5§ in. long. Turner's evergreen oak, a very 

 handsome specimen with large fine deep green leaves. Quercus fastigiata 

 viridis ; named viridis, we presume, from the green colour of the young 



