668 Bcrleze's Monograji)hic dn Geiwe Camellia. 



appoint judges to report upon the appearance of our various estates, — a 

 mode of distinguishing betwixt the diligent and careless in those great matters, 

 which could not fail to be attended with beneficial results. In our opinion, 

 then, the planting of trees forms the best of subjects for rewards. We have 

 been led to make these remarks simply from seeing so many fine old trees toge- 

 ther, and the high state of culture the young ones upon this estate exhibit, 

 great care having been evidently bestowed upon them as to their selection, 

 pruning, and the distances at which they stand from each other, so as to admit . 

 the free air amongst their leaves. The trees here, from their displaying such 

 grandeur, are creating a taste for such objects amongst some of our proprie- 

 tors in this neighbourhood ; and we trust that when an arboretum shall have 

 become an indispensable accompaniment to every country seat, this feeling will 

 be still more extensively promoted." 



Trees of Hevingham, Aylsham, S^c. — Around the ancient church of Heving- 

 ham there are some magnificent old trees of the sweet chestnut in the decline 

 of life. Mr. Grigor mentions the tradition of a forest of sweet chestnuts 

 having formerly existed in the neighbourhood of the metropolis, but on 

 further research he will find that the trees and the timber believed to be 

 chestnut was the chestnut oak (Q. sessiliflora), which is still the indigenous 

 species of oak to the north of the metropolis, and the grain of the wood of 

 which bears a close resemblance to that of the sweet chestnut. In truth, the 

 timber of the sweet chestnut, after the tree has attained a diameter of 18 in. 

 or 2 ft., is seldom fit for any thing but fuel. The wood, when young, how- 

 ever, is durable, and is much used in England for hop-poles, and, when large, 

 for gate-posts ; in France, for props to vines, and, split into laths, for trellis- 

 work to fruit-walls, and for trelhs fences. Laths of young trees, from 6 in. to 

 10 in. in diameter, unpainted, will last as trelliswork for 10 or 12 years. 

 Speaking of the seat of the Rev. Mr. Bulwer at Aylsham, " a place which 

 exhibits many works of a fine taste," a sweet chestnut is recorded as 7 ft. 2 in. 

 in circumference, with a beautiful regular head, which was raised from a nut 

 planted 38 years ago. The soil here is very favourable to the growth of trees, 

 and " eminently adapted for a private arboretum. It might be commenced 

 with a collection of the various species of Crataegus, Pinus, Pavia, &c., and 

 extended by degrees until a specimen of each of our finer trees was included 

 in it. As already observed, we firmly believe that the day is not very distant, 

 when all our landowners will generally betake themselves to the work of form- 

 ing arboretum s, and, consequently, of perfecting their estates by planting. The 

 establishment of arboretums all over the land will be productive of two 

 grand results, — the improvement of our country and climate. There will 

 then be a sort of millennial perfection arrived at. The barren districts will 

 rejoice in plenty, and the parched wilderness will bear the luxuriant spreading 

 evergreen. The seasons of Italy will be transferred to England, and England's 

 warmth and genial clime will be felt within the wintry North." 



In conclusion, we cannot sufficiently recommend this work as one of 

 instruction and entertainment, not only to the inhabitant of Norfolk, but to 

 all lovers of nature, gardens, and trees. With Mr. Grigor, " we pity the man 

 who displays no fondness for trees — who inquires not after them at all; be- 

 cause he is robbing himself of one of the greatest sources of enjoyment that 

 nature has placed within the reach of the human kind." 



Art. VII. Monographie du Genre Camellia, 8fc. A Monograph 

 of the Genus Camellia^ and a complete Treatise on its Culture^ 

 Description, and Classification. By the Abb^ Berleze. 2d ed. 

 8vo, pp. 237, 4 coloured plates. Paris, 1840. Price 5 francs. 



The first edition of this work was noticed with commendation in our volume 

 for 1838, p. 290., and we there also gave a summary of the author's mode of 



