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Such of our readers as have it in their power to recommend the young- 

 artist and dutiful son, the distressing situation of whose family is described 

 by Mr. Henderson, will, we are sure, consider it a duty to do so. To many 

 gentlemen and ladies anxious to put up rockwork, but who do not know how 

 to set about it, such a workman as Mr. Newman, who joins the attist to the 

 artisan, would be a treasure. — Cond. 



Baillie's rounded enamelled Case Lock, with secret and secure fixings, is 

 a great improvement on locks of the common kind ; and we can safely recom- 

 mend it both for villas and cottages, and for the doors of greenhouses. For 

 the latter it is particularly adapted from the sharp angles, which in the case of 

 common locks are very apt to tear ladies' dresses, being entirely done away 

 with. Altogether this lock is a very great improvement, and it costs very 

 little more than locks of the common kind. — Cond. 



Art. II. Domestic Notices. 

 ENGLAND. 



The Exhibitions in the Horticultural Society's Garden on June 17. and July 12. 

 were, as usual, well attended: on the former day there were 11,060, and on 

 the latter 7560; the total number of visitors at the three exhibitions was 

 23,335 persons. Among the articles exhibited on July 12. was a collection 

 of Mexican pines and firs in pots, raised in the garden by Mr. Gordon, chiefly 

 from seeds sent home by M. Hartweg ; the plants were beautifully grown, 

 and nothing could be more vigorous than the shoots produced by most of 

 them, especially those of Picea religiosa. There was also a vigorous plant of 

 Thuja pendula, which appears to be a sport from Thuja orientalis, as M. Leroy 

 of Angers found it in a bed of seedlings of that species. The Duke of 

 Devonshire, with his usual liberality, threw his grounds open to the visitors to 

 the garden on July 12., who seemed highly gratified with His Grace's kindness. 

 The grounds of the Chisivick Villa, so much admired in the time of Lord 

 Burlington and Kent, were in better order than we ever saw them before. 

 Breadth has, in some degree, been restored to the sloping lawn, by removing 

 (or perhaps they may have died) a number of the trees and shrubs with 

 which it was dotted over. Much, however, requires to be done at this place 

 to render it what it ought to be. The first thing that we should do would be 

 to cut down the old cedars close to the entrance-front, which destroy the 

 effect of the beautiful architecture of the house ; we would then form a 

 terrace on the side of the house next the sloping bank, out of which terrace 

 we would lead a proper walk to the surrounding or boundary walk, which at 

 present is entered in a mean insignificant manner, as if it were of little con- 

 sequence, though it is the main walk of the place. Nothing can be more 

 awkward than the junction of the winding approach road with the broad 

 straight avenue which leads to the entrance-front of the house, unless it be 

 the termination of that avenue at the house without any expansion whatever. 

 The other end of the avenue terminates equally abruptly, without expansion 

 or terminating object, so that it appears totally unconnected at that end, and 

 gives no idea of continuity. At such a place as this one would expect the 

 undergrowths among the trees to be chiefly flowering evergreens ; and near 

 the water at this season, for the place is naturally exceedingly green and dull, 

 we expect azaleas in masses. The rhododendrons, we are happy to see, 

 are being increased in number ; and the azaleas and other flowering shrubs with 

 warm colours, and for winter red-barked dog-woods and yellow-barked willows, 

 will doubtless appear in due time. There are some large and also curious 

 specimens of trees in these grounds, all of which have been noticed in our 

 Arboretum Britannicum ; but we cannot help directing attention to the birch. 



