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Art. V. William Mays Priced Catalogue of select Plants grotmi m 

 the Hope Nursery, Leeming Lane, Bedale, Yorkshire. 



This selection appears to us extraordinary for a provincial nursery in 

 a remote part of the country. It contains, stove plants, 80 kinds ; cacti, 50 

 kinds ; green-house plants, 340 kinds ; pelargoniums, 30 kinds ; calceolarias, 80 

 kinds ; camellias, 84 kinds ; ericas, 90 kinds ; select and showy hardy herbaceous 

 plants, 370 kinds; heart's ease, 120 kinds ; auriculas, 96 kinds; select polyan- 

 thus, 22 kinds ; carnations, 108 kinds ; pinks, 96 kinds ; roses, 408 kinds ; select 

 and showy hardy shrubs and ornamental trees, 306 kinds. There is nothing 

 fills our minds with ideas of the riches and grandeur of England so much as 

 the institutions and establishments, private and public, of the provinces. The 

 capital cities of other countries may rival London, Edinburgh, and Dublin ; 

 but where is the country in which every description of wealth, industry, and 

 taste is so universally spread over its surface, as it is in Great Britain ? The 

 progress also of this diffusion of intellect and industry is most remarkable. 

 Twenty years ago, and half the articles contained in this catalogue could not 

 have been obtained in any metropolitan collection. We may observe of this 

 catalogue, that the I'etail prices to each plant are printed, which prevents 

 the risk of those mistakes which sometimes occur, when the prices are 

 written in with the pen. A few of the names are misspelt, and others are 

 evidently local or erroneous names ; for example, ^'rbutus americana, Ber- 

 beris ovalis, B. arctica, Cratse'gus obcordata, (C. mexicana and C. Lambert2 

 are made distinct, but they are both the same,) Pjrus polveria should be 

 P. Bolwyller/a?z«, Deutzia undulata, iaburnum bullata, &c. We wish every 

 nurseryman would get into the habit of putting authorities after his scientific 

 names ; and also of making certain that his names are correct, by comparing his 

 plants (by specimens or otherwise) with those of some nursery or botanic gar- 

 den where the names are acknowledged to be so. For example, with the col- 

 lection in the Fulham Nursery, or with the Derby Arboretum. Since 

 writing the above, we have received various specimens from Mr. May, and 

 sent him their correct names, ^'rbutus americana is Arctostaphylos UVa 

 ursi ; Berheris ovalis and B. arctica, the common berberry, or very slight 

 varieties of it. Cratse'gus obcordata is the common hawthorn ; Hehtzia 

 undulata is D. corymbosa. A great many specimens sent us by Mr. May 

 were correctly named, from which we augur well of his general correctness. 



Art. VI. Design for laying out the Inner Circle of the Ref^ent's 

 Park as a Garden for the Royal Botanic Society of London. 

 Referred to in the Report of Messrs. Burton and Marnock, dated 

 July 15. 1840. 



We gave a large extract from the Report referred to in a preceding 

 Number, p. 514., and there anticipated being soon able to give some account 

 of the plan ; a lithographed copy of that plan is now before us. It certainly 

 does not look very promising on paper, from the obvious want of harmony 

 resulting from the large (chiefly) rectangular mass of hot-houses placed so con- 

 spicuously in a circular plan, and occupying so large a proportion of the area; 

 but that, and other appearances, on paper, which might be objected to, will 

 disappear in the execution, and more especially after the trees have been a 

 few years planted. One part of the details of the plan we would suggest 

 might be altered with advantage ; it is the shapeless beds marked r r " for 

 choice flowers," on the left margin of a walk leading from the piece of water 

 to the terrace. Circles of different sizes grouped together would be incom- 

 parably better in point of effect, and even more convenient for culture; for 

 every circle might be confined to one genus, species, or variety of plant. On 

 pointing out these beds to a gai'dener of good taste and objecting to them, he 



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