Domestic Notices : — England. 565 



Art. it. Foreign Notices. 



RUSSIA. 



Gardening in Moscoiv. — M. Hoist, seedsman in Moscow, has lately been 

 some weeks in this country establishing correspondents and collecting informa- 

 tion, M. Hoist is well acquainted with the gardens and nurseries about Lon- 

 don, having been three years in the Hammersmith Nursery immediately after 

 the peace, and having, about 1818, been one of the founders of the South- 

 ampton Nursery, with one of Mr. Kennedy's sons, now settled in New York. 

 M. Hoist is agent for the Moscow Agricultural Society, &nd the Moscow 

 Horticultural Society ; and, being a native of Riga, where he was brought up 

 and educated as a gardener, he is well acquainted with the progress which has 

 been made throughout European Russia. This progress is indeed wonderful. 

 M. Hoist's collection of seeds, according to his Catalogue, is as extensive as 

 that of any London seedsman ; and he has ordered all the principal implements 

 sold by Messrs. Drummond of Stirling, and many of the best English works 

 on gardening and agriculture, including our Arboretinn, and the great work 

 on cattle by Professor Low. The gardens about Moscow, he says, are as gay 

 as those about London in the summer season. — Cond. 



NORTH AMERICA. 



The largest Purple Beech and Cedar of Lebanon, in the western hemisphere, 

 are growing in the grounds of Thomas Ash, Esq., West Chester County, 

 New York. The grounds had formerly been occupied as a nursery, I believe 

 the original of all the American nurseries. These specimens were, as far as I 

 can learn, among the first of their sorts which were introduced into this 

 country; and they now serve, v/ith other exotics and splendid native species, to 

 render the residence of Mr. Ash one of the most superbly wooded places which 

 has come under my observation on this side of the Atlantic. 



i^agus sylvatica purpurea : height 56 ft. ; circumference of the trunk, 3 ft. 

 from the ground, 6 ft. j circumference of the head, 12 ft. from the ground, 

 108 ft This is a splendid specimen, with a most symmetrically formed semi- 

 elliptical top, and I exceedingly regret that I am not a sufficient draughtsman 

 to send you a correct drawing of it. 



Cedrus Libani : height 53 ft. ; circumference of the trunk, 3 ft. from the 

 ground, 6 ft. ; circumference of the head, 12 ft. from the ground, 90 ft. 



As far as I can learn, these trees have been planted about sixty years, but 

 on this point I am not able to obtain sufficiently correct data. — Alexander 

 Gordon. New York, June 21. 1840. 



Architectiire and Gardening have been making rapid progress in New York 

 for several years past, but we have lately observed in the books and engravings 

 received from that country an extraordinary advance in architectural taste. 

 This we believe to be partly owing to the necessity of rebuilding a number of 

 new honses and some churches, in consequence of the great fire a few years 

 ago. We have before us an engraving of New Trinity Church, New York, by 

 Mr. Upjohn, architect, which, for correctness of style, and elegance of design, 

 may vie with some of those of Barry or Blore, for example, at Stratford le 

 Bow and Brighton. The length of New Trinity Church, New York, is 183 ft. 

 5 in , and the height of the spire 264 ft. It is built of brown stone close- 

 grained, and very highly finished. — Cond. 



Art. III. Domeslic Notices. 

 ENGLAND. 



An additional Parle in London. — A meeting is about to beheld in the city, 

 for the purpose of founding a royal park within the Tower Hamlets. The 

 institution of such a park, to secure fresh air and a wholesome promenade in 

 the middle of a dense population, cannot but be advantageous to the public 



