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The sloping bark at the junction of the stock and graft 

 is quite smooth and complete all around, a fact which 

 would seem to indicate that the stock and graft had origi- 

 nally been nearly adapted to each other in regard to size. 

 Mr Hay, however, seemed to be of opinion, that the stock 

 had originally been considerably larger in dimensions than 

 the graft, and that the cion had probably been placed in the 

 middle of the stock by the mode called peg-grafting ; and he 

 remarked, that the effect of grafting a tree in this way, is 

 " to dwarf the top ;" an effect which had, by some means 

 or other, been produced in this specimen. The stem of 

 the Ornus rises upright nearly twelve feet ; and from the 

 stock to the branches, it is of nearly equal dimensions. 

 All around the stem are numerous knobs and distorted 

 protuberances, producing the most singular effect. In 

 no place, however, is there any appearanee of canker or 

 disease, the bark being every where healthy. The stem is 

 crowned by a thicket of irregular and crowded branches, 

 which form upon the whole a fine round head. 



Palm qfClusius. 

 The different hot-houses are of the old construction, and 

 have nothing to recommend them but their contents. Ha- 

 ving eagerly inquired for the Palm of Clusius, which we 

 expected would be held in reverence, and cherished with 

 (arc, we were rather disappointed at being led into a dull- 

 looking conservatory, not clear of lumber. The palm itself, 

 however, did not fail to excite our admiration. We un- 

 derstood the plant to have been the Rhapis flabelliformis * 



• It is mentioned as such by Sir James Edward Smith, in his Tour on 

 the Continent In J78(>, when writing, it would appear, from memory. The 

 gencval accuracy at thif eminent botanist in so great and so well established, 



