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lain. Here, too, some of the rarer American trees were 

 Hrst cultivated, and some of the original specimens still re- 

 main. Mr Ilav measured the trunk of a large Catalpa 

 tree, which was 5 feel 9 inches in circumference, at three feet 

 from the ground ; and the height of the tree was, by esti- 

 mation, about 25 feet. Several Magnolias were worthy of 

 notice ; in particular, large plants of M. glauca. It may 

 be mentioned, that Mr Thomson has procured a hybrid 

 seedling magnolia, between this species and M. tripetala : 

 hitherto, he alone possesses this novelty, and, according to the 

 custom of the trade, he will not dispose of any of the plants 

 till he acquire a store of it by inarching on common stocks. 

 The Aniseed-tree (Illycium Floridanum) had here stood in 

 the open air for several winters ; but it requires a sheltered 

 situation, and prefers a shady border. The Aster argophyl- 

 lus, or musk-plantof NewHolland, had passed the last winter 

 without any kind of shelter. A very large specimen of the 

 single-flowered red Camellia is plained in the open bor- 

 der, and trained against a wall, in a confined situation re- 

 sembling a court. It fills a space about 12 feet high, and 

 16 feet wide. During winter it is covered with a glass 

 frame. This plant was originally at Wanstead-Housc 

 Garden, and was brought hither about twenty years ago. 

 Thousands of cuttings are yearly taken from it, in order to 

 farm stocks on which to work the double-flowered varie- 

 ties. 



London to Dover, 



jz/o. s. — Having resolved to proceed to Dover, and em- 

 bark either for Calais or Ostend, as circumstances might 

 direct, we left London on the 8th of August on our way to 

 Canterbury. 



