BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
* Booth's Nursery at Flottbeck, near 
Hamburgh, continues to be the first in 
Germany, and has received much exten- 
sion since I last saw it, especially in the 
ouses. It contains, altogether, one hun- 
dred and five English acres at Flottbeck, 
and ten more at some distance. I was sur- 
prized to hear from Mr. Booth that a great 
part of his commerce is now with Ame- 
rica. It is, however, the great entrepót 
also of the nursery-garden commerce be- 
tween Germany and England." 
Dresden, August 15, 
* Between Hamburgh and Berin the 
country is wholly uninteresting to the Bo- 
tanist, as the road lies the whole way across 
the sandy district that covers the whole of 
the North of Germany. As a Horticultu- 
rist, I would observe, that the palace-gar- 
den at Ludwigslust, like most palace-gar- 
dens in Germany, is beautifully laid out 
with well-kept walks, shady seats, flower- 
beds, &c., open at all times of the day to 
all descriptions of persons, upon the sole 
condition that they neither walk on the 
Brass, gather the flowers, nor injure the 
trees, conditions that are religiously ob- 
served: and most delightful walks the pa- 
lace-gardens generally are. At Berlin I 
: Spent ten days, chiefly devoted to Botany: 
for being anxious to examine some plants 
in the Royal Herbarium, and in that of M. 
Kunth, I acceded to their request of look- 
mg Over and correcting the names of the 
Labiate in these the two principal Herba- 
nia of the town. 
“ The Royal Herbarium is deposited at 
Schüneberg (a little village about three 
uarters of a mile from the gate of the 
town), opposite to the botanical garden, 
and ih the garden of the Horticultural So- 
a It is contained in several rooms af- 
fording ample space for the collections, and 
m a situation where it would easily admit 
of additions, if necessary. It consists of, 
lst, The Willdenowian Herbarium. 
15 arranged on paper of a size between 
. that of the Linnean (a small foolscap) and 
other old Herbaria, and the present usual 
Size, such as yours and mine (sixteen and 
«half inches long by ten and a quarter 
75 
broad). Each specimen is fastened down 
by strips of paper to a single sheet, and all 
those that Willdenow had left under one 
cover, as one species, are carefully put to- 
gether into a neat double sheet of blue 
paper. The labels, written by Willdenow, 
not having been attached by him to indivi- 
dual species, but left loose in the covers, 
have been fastened to the new covers, which 
have also a number, beginning from the 
commencement in the order of his species, 
and the individual sheets in each cover are 
also numbered : so that in referring to any 
specimen in the Herbarium, it is hence- 
forth identified by quoting the number of 
the specific cover, and that of the sheet on 
the cover. I have been particular in de- 
scribing this, because it appears to me to 
be the most useful way of preserving those 
Herbaria of distinguished Botanists which 
serve as authorities for their works, and 
would be far better than the slovenly man- 
ner in which Linneus’, Sibthorp's, and 
others of our Herbier’s types are allowed 
to remain. As to the plants themselves in 
Willdenow's Herbarium, there are, per- 
haps, not quite so many as one might have 
expected: often bad specimens; and un- 
fortunately, in many instances, additional 
specimens have been thrown into the old 
covers by him without examination, and 
the labels mixed, so that it would require 
much caution in ascertaining which was 
the individual specimen the author had in 
view. But it is very valuable in contain- 
ing nearly the whole of the plants he de- 
scribed from the Berlin garden, as well as 
the Oriental plants described in his ** Spe- 
cies Plantarum," from Gundelsheimer's and 
Tournefort's specimens, and the Siberian 
ones from Stephen :—the latter are beau- 
tiful specimens, and some of them little 
known, even now, by Russian Botanists. 
This Herbarium also contains a tolerable 
set of Humboldt's plants. 
2ndly, The General Herbarium. "This. 
comprehends a rather rich German and gar- 
den collection, a complete set of Sieber's 
specimens, the Wallichian East Indian 
plants, and some others brought by Kunth - 
when he came over for that purpose to Eng- = 
land; some Cape plants, to which, I believe, — — 
