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is erect and exceeding well balanced ; it is 70 ft. high, with a trunk of 42 ft.: 

 in its circumference at 1 ft. from the ground it is 21 ft. 6 in. Mr. Grigor thinks 

 that there are few, if any, oaks which excel this tree in England. 



Sail Park ; Sir R. P. Jodrell, Bart. — The park scenery is exceedingly 

 pleasant, and contains some fine trees, especially a lofty and beautiful beech. 



Heydon Park ; W. E. Lytton Bidwer, Esq. — A very ancient place, in which 

 " all that a pure and enlightened taste would have suggested has been carried 

 into effect. He who expects to find here the usual routine of park shrubbery, 

 pleasure-ground, and the gay parterre sparkling in summer's beauty, will be 

 disappointed. Such is not its character. It is of that grave and almost me- 

 lancholy appearance which thick woody scenes brought near to the mansion 

 usually confer — full of ancestral remnants. The visitor of Heydon will at 

 once be impressed, we think, with the peculiar feature by which we have 

 considered it is so much characterised — that of pensive grandeur. The 

 entire place is a testimony of the wonderful effect which trees produce on a 

 surface like that of Norfolk, which in general is naturally uninteresting." 



Hoveton Park ; Mrs. Burroughes. — "A seat of general excellence," re- 

 markably well laid out, and highly kept. " The whole place is so judiciously 

 laid out, that we hazard the opinion that it has been done by some one who 

 has become eminent in his profession." 



Scottoiv Pnrk ; Sir H. Durrani, Bart. — A seat with many traits of beauty, 

 and some fine trees, A pyracantha covers a space on the walls of some 

 outbuildings 24 yards in length, and is clad with large bunches of brilliant 

 scarlet berries in November. We may observe that it is rather remarkable 

 that this thorn is not more frequently grafted standai'^d high on the cockspur 

 thorn ; or perhaps C. raexicana would be preferable as a stock, from being 

 subevergreen. " The kitchen-garden is celebrated for its great espalier-tree. 

 Its high wall, which is reckoned the finest in Norfolk, is covered with wide- 

 spreading vines." 



Our Trees. — No. 6, TJie WeepinglWillow. There are many fine specimens 

 in Norfolk : one raised from the St. Helena specimen, in the garden of John 

 Stracy, Esq., at Sprowston Lodge, is 27 ft. high, with a stem 3 ft. 6 in. in girt. 



On the whole, this is a most delightful book of its kind ; it improves much 

 as it proceeds, and more especially in the engravings, of which the number 

 given is so considerable, that we are surprised at the low price at which the 

 work is sold. We should think it could hardly fail to find its way into the 

 library of every lover of trees. 



Art. Ill, Catalogue of Ornamental Plants grown and sold by Fotvlds 

 and Lymbiirn, Nurserymen, Seedsmen, and Florists, 36. Portland 

 Street, Kilmarnock. Single sheet, 1840-1. 



Select List of Hardy Trees, Shrubs, Ligneous Climbers, and Green- 

 house Plants, cultivated and Sold by William Young, of the Milford 

 Botanical and Floriculttiral Nursery, Jiear Godalming, Surrey. 

 Single sheet, 1840-1. 



Catalogue of Nursery Stock, comprising Forest, Fruit, and Ornament 

 tal Trees and Shrubs, Stove, Green-house, and Herbaceous Plants, 

 Florists' Flowers, Sfc, cultivated by William Gregory, Cirencester, 

 Gloucestershire. Pamph. 1840-1. 



In each of these catalogues an endeavour has been made, and, as far as we 

 can judge, successfully, to adjust the nomenclature to that of out Arboretum 

 Britanniciim. The collections of ornamental trees and shrubs in these three 

 nurseries, stationed in widely different parts of the country, surpass those of 

 1841. — I. 3d Ser. d 



