Domestic Notices. — Obituary. 677 



Art. II. Domestic Notices. 



ENGLAND. 



BowooD, in Wiltshire, the seat of the Marquess of Lansdowne. To all who 

 are fond of garden scenes, in the great style of Brown's finest works, Bowood 

 will afford considerable amusement. The water scenes form the finest features 

 of the place. For one idea, the imitation of a vast river, Blenheim is superior; 

 but as a lake, this has, I think, the advantage ; the expanse of water is more 

 varied ; the accompaniment of hanging woods, varied groves, and cultivated 

 slopes, far richer and more animated. Some scenes are truly Elysian, and 

 present such an assemblage of the richest features of picturesque ground, that 

 I know no place where they may be studied to more advantage. (FoM?zg's 

 Annals of Agriculture, vol. viii. p. 79.) 



SCOTLAND. 



Glasgow Cathedral saved by a Gardener. — When the fanatics, in the year 

 1567, came to pull down the cathedral of Glasgow, a gardener, who stood by, 

 said : " My friends, cannot you make it a house for serving your God in your 

 own way? For it would cost your country a great deal to build such another." 

 The fanatics desisted ; and it is the only cathedral in Scotland that remains 

 entire, and fit for service. (^Earl of Buchan's Life of Andre lu Fletcher, p. 41.) 



Art. III. Obituary. 



Death of Mr. Robert Lymburn. — It is with deep regret that wc have heard 

 of the sudden death of this excellent man. Mr. Lyniburn had been poorly for 

 some months past, but appeared to have got well again. He had recently 

 buried his mother, with whom he had lived all his life ; and he had just formed 

 a partnership with Mr. Dreghorn, in the nursery business, at Kilmarnock. He 

 retired to rest, in his usual health, on Monday the 30th of October last, and 

 on the morning of Tuesday the 31st was found dead in his bed; the result, it 

 is supposed, of an affection of the heart. 



Mr. Lymburn was, perhaps, one of the best vegetable physiologists that 

 Scotland ever produced. To an extensive practical knowledge of all the hor- 

 ticultural and agricultural practices of the country, he joined a thorough know- 

 ledge of chemistry, and of the functions of plants ; and he was so thoroughly 

 devoted to the subject, that he had no other recreation. As a proof, we have 

 only to refer to his excellent articles in this Magazine; and to many papers of 

 his in the Gardener''s Chronicle. Fortunately for our readers, the MS. of the 

 whole of the article on Comparative Physiology was received from Mr. Lym- 

 burn more tiian a month ago, and it will appear in the early Numbers of our 

 succeeding Volume. Mr. Lymburn appeared to be about fifty years of age. 

 Some of his townsmen and contemporaries will, we trust, furnish us with a 

 biographical notice in greater detail. — Cond. 



ERRATA. 



Delete Bcat6nf« atrata Herb., and the description, in p. C2 4. 

 In p. 581., line 24. from bottom, ^w- "Cumberland," read "Westmore- 

 land." 



See also p. 89 , p. 90., and p. 459. 



