268 General Notices. 



Bell-glass, Bellows for Fumigation, Biennial Plants, Borders, &c., &c., in- 

 cluding Cuttings, Layers, Grafting, Sowing, Hoeing, Digging, Potting, Pruning, 

 Training, and a great many such terms, it may be considered as a general 

 dictionary of ornamental gardening, adapted for the use of ladies. It is 

 printed in double columns, in a very small type, and will form a volume of 

 five or six hundred pages, illustrated by engravings. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. General Notices. 



Botanical and Horticultural Works. — I deem it the duty of every gen- 

 tleman to permit his gardener to have all reasonable access to even his most 

 valuable books on botanical and horticultural science. This is only fair ; for 

 how can he expect perfection if he refuses the necessary means of information ? 

 He might as well lock his stable bin, and expect his stud to be fat and sleek. 

 — Amicus. Feb. 6. 1840. ' ^ 



Seeds sent hy Post, — We have lately received not only seeds, cuttings, and 

 scions, btit even entire plants, and yesterday a shrub, roots and branches 

 (Faccuiium humifiisum), in a penny letter. From Messrs. Sang of Kirkcaldy we 

 received a prepaid packet very neatly done up, containing the seeds of 12 kinds 

 of annuals, each with the name printed, and the price of the whole 12 only 'is. 

 If this does not lead to the general distribution of every useful and ornamental 

 plant of which seeds are procurable, the fault will be in the public, not in 

 government. We only wish that the foreign postages coidd be lowered a 

 little, that our ornamental annuals might be sent all over the Continent ; for, 

 it is a fact that will not be denied, that annual plants, even those of warm 

 climates, make a far more splendid appearance in Norway, Sweden, Russia, 

 and the North of Germany, than they do in England, owing to the brighter 

 sun and longer days of these countries during the summer season. Great part 

 of the Californian annuals might be naturalised in the woods of Norway and 

 Sweden, and many superior varieties of bread corn, and of pasture grasses and 

 herbage plants, might be introduced into these countries by post, if the postage 

 abroad were only a little lower. An interchange of seeds amongst all the 

 curators of botanic gardens in Europe and America is a result to be anxiously 

 desired, not merely by the botanist, but by the horticulturist and the farmer. 

 If ambassadors were what they ought to be, matters of this kind would have 

 been attended to long ago. — Cond. 



Clerodendron sguamdtum Yahl and Hort. Brit., speciosissimum Paxt. — I 

 have had several applications lately, from amateurs in several parts of the 

 country, to tell them where they could buy the Clerodendron squamatum, or 

 if it could be had in any of the London nurseries; and this morning I had a 

 note from a first-rate London nurseryman, asking me if I had this plant, while, 

 to my own knowledge, he had half a dozen of it in his stores. I wish you to 

 insert this paragraph for the use of others who may be looking out for C. 

 squamatum. You can refer them to the Gardener s Magazine, vol. xiii. p. 39., 

 and Potanical Register, t. 649. ; it is the same as Clerodendron speciosfssimum. 

 Last autumn I saw a plant of C. paniculatum beautifully in flower, in Mr. 

 Knight's Exotic Nursery, and in a short time afterwards I saw an account of 

 this plant somewhere which I now forget, and I think squamatum was the 

 name mentioned, at least I recollect some wrong name applied in the report I 

 read. — D. B. London, March 27, 



Inrported Orange Trees. — I have frequently found a very simple hint of 

 great service ; I forward you the following, in hopes that some person may 

 have a chance of being benefited by my experience. In 1838, we had six 

 orange trees imported from Malta; they had been one year from the bud ; the 

 labels were fastened with iron wire to the young shoots, and had rubbed the 

 Imrk-of three of them near to the stock. I covered them all over with moss. 



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