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or heps, may be thickly mixed with the soil or earth in which the plants are 

 placed. 



"More extended Inti'oduct'ion of known Species of Ahietin<e. — To the person 

 who shall, within three years from 1835, inclusive, have introduced from 

 any part of the world, cones containing seeds capable of germination, the 

 produce of hardy species of the fir tribes which have been already intro- 

 duced into Britain, but of which only a few plants have been raised, the 

 gold or silver medal, or a piece of plate of such value as the directors may, in 

 the circumstances of the case, deem adequate. 



"It is required that the quantity of cones of each species imported shall 

 be sufficient to afford at least 500 seedling plants; and farther, that, before 

 the premium be awarded, the number of seedling plants of each species 

 actually raised in Scotland shall not be less than 100. Attention is parti- 

 cularly directed to Araucaria imbricata ; Pinus ponderosa, Lambertiawa, and 

 SabimaW ; to j4''bies DouglasM, nobilis, grandis, and Menziesw; and to Tax- 

 odium sempervirens ; which last is abundant in the vicinity of San Francisco, 

 and throughout the low sandy plains of California." 



The scientific and thinking gardener will derive instruction from the bare 

 perusal of the above paragraphs; and there are a number of our readers, 

 both in England and Scotland, who might compete for several of the pre- 

 miums. Some of the subjects we should be glad to have articles on, for 

 our Enct/clopcedia of Arboriculture, or for this Magazine. 



Art. IV. Some Account of the Swedish Horticultural Societij, and 

 the Garden of M. Rosenblad, in Stockholm. By Austrian Tra- 

 vellers, in the Summer of 1836. 



The Swedish Horticultural Society was estabhshed in the autumn of 1832 

 by some of the individuals most zealous for gardening. The president was 

 the Ober Statthalter in Stockholm, General-Major and Commander, &c.. Baron 

 von Sprengtportin, who has always taken an active part in every thing that is 

 ornamental and useful in Sweden, and especially in Stockholm. The direction 

 of the Society consists of a vice-president. Dr. Pontin, a knight ; two secre- 

 taries, one treasurer, one bookkeeper, and a council of fourteen members, 

 ten of whom belong to the garden, and four to the agricultural department. 

 The Society, at present, consists entirely of members who pay, and who amount 

 to about 1500 persons, each of whose yearly subscription is only one rixdoUar 

 of the Hamburg bank. Foreign corresponding members will soon be invited to 

 join the Society. 



The object of the Swedish Horticultural Society is to promote a general 

 taste for garden and field culture in every part of Sweden ; to record the 

 progress of gardening in that and other countries ; to try experiments on the 

 truitfulness of different soils ; to introduce and acclimatise new plants, and to 

 select the most suitable of them for cultivation, either for their beauty, or on 

 account of their producing wholesome and well-tasted food, for men or cattle. 

 The Society distributes yearly, seeds of new flowering plants and vegetables to 

 its members, without any extra remuneration. 



The situation chosen for the garden of the Society is in the middle of Queen 

 Street, which is the largest and most beautiful street in Stockholm. This very 

 desirable spot appears to be about 2000 ft. long, and from 400 ft. to 500 ft. 

 wide, occupying a fourth part of the land from the above-mentioned street to 

 the banks of a small lake, which communicates with the Lake Maclaren, and 

 the royal palace of Carlberg. A very beautiful enclosure has been executed 

 from a drawing of Baron von Sprengtportin, which received the royal assent, 

 and was accepted by the Society. 



We shall always feel grateful to Baron von Sprengtportin, who, during our 

 short stay in Stockholm, afforded us the information which has enabled us to 

 write this paper. He conducted us to the beautiful and rich flower show, 



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