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cropped walk, would prepare the eye for the geometrical figures of the one, and 

 the semi-architectural effects of the other, while the surrounding shrubberies would 

 screen them from the rest of the grounds and prevent their destroying the general 

 character. . The domes of the conservatories might, however, if ornamentally 

 finished and gilded, be allowed to be seen peeping above the trees from certain 

 points of view, and would, with the lower parts concealed, form good distant 

 objects. Having so far exceeded my originally intended limits, I must now conclude 

 abruptly, recommending " Repton's Landscape Gardening," as a most excellent 

 work for such as wish to enter more deeply and scientifically into the subject. 



BOTANICAL NOTICES OF NEW PLANTS. 



DICOTYLEDONES. 

 BERBERIDEiE. 



Epimedium violaceum. Morren et Decaisne. Purple Barrenwort. Bot. 

 Mag. t. 375 1 . This species, which is rendered handsome by its profusion of 

 delicate pink flowers, was imported into Europe from Japan by M. Von Siebold. 

 It blossomed very freely in an open border in the Nursery Establishment of Mr. 

 Cunningham, of Comely Bank, Edinburgh, in the beginning of April, 1839. 

 The plant continues to flower for a considerable time, but whether it is hardy or 

 half-hardy is not stated. Bot. Mag. 



OXALIDEiE. 



Oxalis Barrelieri. Jacq. Barrelier's Oxalis. Bot. Mag. t. 3748. This is 

 a suffruticose plant about J 2 inches high, of no great beauty, and bearing a head 

 of yellow flowers on long peduncles. It was received from Messrs. Booth, of 

 Hamburgh, at the Glasgow Botanic Garden. It differs in some slight degree 

 from the description which is given by Jacquin, as in the length of the stamens and 

 styles, and also in the colour of the flowers, which are yellow, instead of a whitish 

 flesh colour; but Sir W. J. Hooker is convinced that it is identical with O. 

 polymorpha of Zuccarini, for, having compared it with authentic specimens of that 

 author, received from the Berlin Herbarium, the observations which he was thus 

 enabled to make proved it to be the same plant. It requires the heat of the 

 stove, and flowers in March and April. Bot. Mag. 



LEGUMINOSjE, §CASS1E^. 



Bauhinia corymbosa. Pvoxb. Corymb-flowering Bauhinia. Bot. Reg. 

 N. S. t. 47. This is a very showy and delicate species, bearing a profusion of pink 

 flowers. It is a native of China, and has long been introduced into this country ; 

 all attempts to flower it had, however, proved unsuccessful, until September 

 1838, when it blossomed in Mr. Wells's greenhouse at Redleaf. Specimens were 

 sent by him to Dr. Lindley for publication. It is stated that the Chinese 

 drawings of this plant, which are in the collection of the Horticultural Society, 



