324 Foreign Notices : — North America. 



P. latifolia glabrata Booth ; P. heterophylla Steud. ; Potentilla glabra Booth ; 

 -Rhamnus Pallasra f. et m. Hort. Brit., R. spatulaefoiia f. et m., R. dahiirica 

 Pall. ; QuercLis castaneifolia C. A. Meyer, Q. castaneifolia caucasica Booth, Q. 

 raongolica Fisch., Q. pannonica Booth, Q. rubra iaraxacifolia Booth, Q. rubra 

 undulata Booth, Q. xalapensis H. B., Q. sp. cochleata ^oo/A ; R tbes res'mosum 

 Ph., R. Menzieszi Ph., R. nigrura fruct. maximo, R. rigens M,v. ; i2ubus iiut- 

 kanus Mocin., R. hirtus W. K. ; i?hus copallina leucantha Jacq.; ^partium 

 scoparium fl. pleno ; iSpiree^a alpina Pall., S. lanceolata Poir, ; Taxus Harring- 

 tonia Knight, T. baccata fastigiata A. Brit. ; ^huja nepalensis Lodd., T. 

 orientalis stricta Hort. ; Tetranthera geniculata Nees, Tiiia europae^a Hort. 

 (not L.), T. e. grandifolia corylifoha H. Vind.,. T. e. hegox\icsfdlia Booth, T. e. 

 tlasystyla Booth, T. americana heterophylla A. Brit., T. a. macrophjlla H. 

 Vind. ; Faccinium i'alicinum Chamisso, V. sibiricum Hort., V. uliginosum L., V. 

 elevatum BanJis, V. corymbosum L., V. haWevicefdlium Lodd., V. colchicum 

 Booth ; f/lmus inontana Yieynedna H. Vind. ; 7'^iburnum dauricum Pall. 



By this you will see the love our excellent viceroy has for plants, and for 

 the advancement of his favourite science in the kingdom committed to his 

 care. The catalogue of the plants in these royal gardens is now being printed ; 

 as soon as it is finished I will send you a copy that you may have some idea 

 of what we possess. 



The Bokhara clover has germinated ; when it is tolerably grown, it will be 

 transplanted as your correspondent Taylor did, who was very successful with it. 

 We shall see if it succeeds equally well here, and what comparison it bears 

 with the common clover and with the lucern, with respect to the quantity and 

 quality of the forage. 



The cultivation of heart's eases, called Pensees Anglaises, because the finest 

 came from your hajipy country, where horticulture is carried to the highest 

 pitch, is all the fashion here. Although I am not a fashionable man, yet even 

 1 am enchanted with so lovely a flower, of which there are some very fine 

 ones. — Giuseppe Manetti. 



NORTH AMERICA. 



Indigenous Trees of North America not yet introduced. — It is very true, as 

 you observe, that in Torrey and Gray's Flora a great many trees and shrubs, 

 as well as herbaceous plants, are described, which are not yet introduced into 

 England ; and I have sometimes thought of collecting them, and cultivating 

 them for sale. To do this profitably, however, I would require to give it 

 personal attention, which at present I cannot do, having a very extensive 

 business already on hand ; and good practical labour cannot be permanently 

 secured here unless at a very extravagant rate. As soon as young men are 

 two or three years in my employ, and save a few hundred dollars, they at 

 once begin in some part of the States on their own account. If they have 

 proved faithful to me, I give them a quantity of stuff, at little or no charge, to 

 begin upon. My nursery foreman and house propagator have each forty dollars 

 a month. — U. Philadelphia, Feb. 14. 1843. 



State of the Country. — This country is at present under a cloud of dis- 

 graceful distress. Bankruptcy, a few years ago, was considered a branded 

 shame upon the individual or corporation ; but now honour has gone to the 

 winds, and its place is occupied with roguery and breaches of trust. There 

 have been 1500 failures in this city and county during the past fifteen months ; 

 and hundreds of individuals who lived in comparative wealth, whose all was 

 invested in stocks, are now in actual want of food and raiment. The widow 

 and daughters who lived in style are now in a room or garret, sewing for 

 their daily bread. Men who had retired from business with honour, and 

 whose heads were silvered with age, have again begun the world of trade 

 without a penny. Consequently, in all this wreck our business has suffered 

 severely ; our losses have been great indeed. In this city there were, in 

 1 842, seven stores, or shops, the occupiers of which lived by selling seeds and 



