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about ihirt v feet The brandies had risen forty feet high, 

 having been trained against the Palace wall} which is mark- 

 ed with nails and shreds to that height. The tree, there- 

 lore, had covered a space of 900 square feet ; and it bids 

 lair soon to equal its former self. The fruit is of the kind 

 called the White-fig; but there is none upon the tree this 

 season. 



It may be remarked, that fruit seems to have failed very 

 generally in Britain this year. Lambeth Palace garden, 

 we were told, usually produces abundant crops of very fine 

 pears, apples, plums, and peaches; but at this time scarce- 

 ly a specimen of any of those fruits was here to be seen. In 

 the garden at Dalkeith-House near Edinburgh, the apple- 

 trees are generally exuberant bearers ; but Mr Macdonald in- 

 formed us, that this season they had proved otherwise ; 

 that the spring blossom had fallen off without setting-; 

 that successive flpwer-buds had expanded during the sum- 

 mer ; and that several trees were in flower when he left 

 home on the 1st of August. It seems likely that this 

 is an effect of the wet and cold summer and autumn of the 

 past year ; the wood had not ripened, and the regular 

 flower-buds had not been sufficiently matured before win- 

 ter. Several seasons may elapse before the trees recover 

 from the effects of the irregularity thus induced. 



On the lawn in front of the Palace are some fine trees, 

 of kinds which are not usual in Britain, and which in Scot- 

 land we see commonly in the form only of shrubs. The 

 Carolina Sumach-tree (Rhus elegans), the Scarlet Oak 

 (Querent coccinea), the Xhree-thorned Acacia (Gleditschia 

 triacanthos), maybe mentioned; and likewise two excel- 

 pecimem of Catalpa syringifolia, each about twenty 

 feet high, which, in favourable seasons, as the gardener in- 

 formed us, seldom fail to produce large panicles of flowers. 



