in certain British Nurseries and private Gardens. 63 



Ribes pendulum Rh. rubelaris 



acerifoliuni ferruglneum album 



iJhamnus ciicullatus (Salix pendula nova [? S. araericana 



jRhus copallina pendula, p. 59.] 



iihododendron pyramidale T\\m argentea pendula [? T. europae^a 



Hartoppi pendula alba, p. 00.] 



ovum rubecula macrophylla [? p. bQ."] 



translucens mississippiensis 



tortuifolium fj'lmus chinensis 



concolor pyramidalis 



Chelsoni punctatum pendula nova 

 revolutum 



Norfolk. 



Great Yarmouth Nursery ; Youell and Co. — Araucaria imbricata in 

 large quantities has stood within 300 or 600 yards of the sea, and fully exposed 

 to the cutting winds from the north-east, for two years, without the slightest 

 injury. — Y. Sf Co. 



Somersetshire. 



Taunton Nursery ; J. Young. — We visited this nursery on October 1. 

 184-2, and found it very well laid out, with an excellent dwelling-house 

 in the form of an old English cottage, built of solid blocks of stone, and 

 thatched, combining every comfort expected in such a dwelling, and much of 

 elegance and refinement. There is a veranda which has an excellent effect ; 

 and this, and also one of the living-rooms, open into a handsome conservatory. 

 We do not recollect any nurseryman's house in England that can be placed 

 on a par with this dwelling, except the house of Mr. Veitch, sen., in the Mount 

 Radford Nursery, Exeter. Mr. Veitch and Mr. Young are unquestionably at 

 the head of their profession, as far as commodious and tasteful dwellings are 

 concerned. We could refer to one or two nurserymen's houses about London, 

 for example, the late Mr. Wilmott's house at Lewisham, where there are com- 

 modious enough rooms within, perhaps as much so as those of the houses we 

 have mentioned ; but they form part of streets, or in some way or other are so 

 circumstanced that they do not exhibit a single particle of taste without ; 

 houses, in short, that no man of taste would live in, i^ he could possibly help 

 it. Along the walks in the Taunton Nursery there is a tolerable arboretum, ex- 

 hibiting numerous fine specimens of the more rare trees and shrubs ; and we were 

 agreeably surprised to find the genus CratEe^gus, with only one or two exceptions, 

 correctly named. There are remarkably fine specimens of Cratae^gus trilobata 

 and C. virglnica, covered with fruit. In a bed of seedlings of Sojohora japonica 

 a plant has appeared with pendent shoots, exactly like the old S. japonica pen- 

 dula ; but we do not think it worth keeping distinct, any more than are the 

 numerous plants ofQuercus pedunculata heteroph\lla,or ^^cer^latanciides la- 

 ciniata, which frequently come up among seedlings of the species. There is an 

 excellent stock of many articles, and particularly of Tilia europoe^a alba pen- 

 dula, the weeping Hungarian lime, budded on the top of stems 1 2 ft. high. This 

 splendid varietj' of lime deserves to be far more frequent than it is on lawns 

 among curious or odd trees. We saw a new yellow Portugal broom; a new 

 and valuable hardy variety of Lonicera sempervirens serotina ; and Lonicer« 

 Goldw, which Mr. Young considers distinct from L. occidentalis ; yJ'rbutus 

 procera budded on the common species in May last, and already producing 

 shoots above a foot in length ; Bignouk radicans superba, quite a bush ; 

 besides a number of other articles. In the lawn, which embraces the house 

 on three sides, and contains some pretty pieces of rockwork, enclosing 

 bright little basins of living water, there are many fine plants. We noticed 

 particularly Bouvardia triphylla splendens, forming a bush 2^ ft. high; and a 

 group of heaths, which Mr. Heed, the foreman, has planted out in a circular 



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