600 Gi-igor's Easie)-n Arboj-cium. 



REVIEWS. 



Art. I. The Eastern Arboretum, or Rural Register of all the 

 remarkable Trees, Seats, Gardens, S^c, in the County of Norfolk. 

 By James Grigor. Illustrated by drawings of trees, etched on 

 copper, by H. Ninham. Nos. II,, III., and IV. 8vo, 9 plates. 

 London ; July, August, and September^ 1840. \s. each. 



The first number of this most agreeable and entertaining work is noticed in 

 p. 332., and we have great pleasure in stating that it increases in interest as it 

 proceeds. Like Mr. Grigor, we have a regard for trees, " because they grew 

 in Paradise, because they are employed in Scripture illustration, and because 

 we find them about our homes, old and trusty companions, — the earliest 

 objects that memory fixes upon." 



Ti^ees and Gardens of Norivich, continued. — The best collection of Cra- 

 tae'gus in Norwich is in the garden of S. Brignold, Esq., where there is 

 a common hawthorn 50 ft. high, and an elm lOift. in circumference, and 

 85 ft. high. Quercus Cerris, in the garden of A. Taylor, Esq., has, in 23 

 years, attained the height of 35 ft., with a trunk 4ift. in circumference. 

 A medlar, in the garden of C. W. Unthank, Esq., measures 4i ft. in cir- 

 cumference, i^agus sylvatica, in the garden of Mrs. Jane Gurney, measures 

 12 ft. in circumference, A snowdrop tree, Halesia tetraptera, of which 

 an engraving is given, is 29 ft. high, with a trunk 4 ft. in circumference, 

 and the diameter of the space covered by its branches 33 ft. We should 

 think this must be the largest specimen of snowdrop tree in England. It 

 stands in the grounds of a villa called the Town Close. " Beside this 

 object, there is a handsome specimen of the tulip tree (Liriodendron Tulipi- 

 fera), measuring 65 ft. in circumference, and 50 ft. in height, — a favourite 

 with botanists, on account of its conspicuous flowers. But the great charm 

 of this heavenly retreat is a shaded walk o beech, a verdant arcade of 90 

 yards in length, forming a promenade almost unequalled except in fiction. It 

 looks like a relic of fairy land. At the entrance to this seat, on the New- 

 market road, there are two elms of the Wych or Scotch species (Ulmus 

 montana), which are really worthy of attention. In our estimation, the elm 

 is one of the most dignified objects in our sylva. It is this tree especially 

 that flings an air of solemn magnificence around the habitations of men, and 

 strikes the beholder with ideas of more ancient grandeur than is conveyed to 

 him by the consideration of long-worn titles and orders. It would appear 

 that similar ideas have been held by the most of mankind ; for it is almost 

 universally found close to our old family mansions and baronial towers." A'r- 

 butus Unedo is 20 ft. high, in the garden of F. Ives, Esq. The residence 

 of" R. Merry, Esq., the most romantic seat about Norwich, contains many 

 young trees in a highly vigorous state, though none deserving of particular 

 remark, either as to their size or rareness. 



" Mrs. Martineau's residence, at Bracondale, presents us with a perfect 

 picture of an extensive and beautifully secluded seat, abounding in all the 

 characteristics of our old English mansions, and may be said to be the only 

 retreat in the immediate neighbourhood of Norwich that partakes of the beau- 

 ties of our finest lordly demesnes. Amidst the solitary bowers of this sub- 

 urban sanctuary, there are several temples, a priory, and hermitage intei'spersed, 

 commanding delightful glimpses of the surrounding country. The principal 

 trees we observed were the broad-leaved English elms, some of them measur- 

 ing from lift, to 12ft. in circumference." Magnoh'a grandiflora has a 

 trunk 2 ft. in girth on the lawn of George Morse, Esq., Catton. 



" Earlham Hall, the residence of Joseph John Gurney, Esq., appears to be 

 one of the most ancient seats in our suburbs, full of s^dvan magnificence. 

 It contains a heronry — that noble appendage which nature is so shy of 



