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The impulse given to Botany and Horticulture 
by Smith, Hooker, and Lindley, all Norwich 
men, seems to be yet apparent in the Horti- 
cultural Society of that city, which in every 
respect ranks next to those of London. 
The more comprehensive an Arboretum 
could be made the better ; but, as it is really 
a difficult matter for many to keep up a com- 
plete collection of trees and shrubs, it is there- 
fore thought that a plan might be devised 
which would more easily and effectually serve 
the purposes in view. Suppose that twenty 
or thirty amateurs, in various parts of the 
country, readers of this Magazine, were to 
engage forthwith to commence an Arboretum, 
taking twenty or thirty genera of trees and 
shrubs, each individual selecting two species, 
either of which he would agree to bestow his 
attention upon. Let each individual commu- 
nicate his choice to the Editor of the Magazine, 
and, after a little arrangement and concession, 
the thing is done. The benefit of such a com- 
pact is too apparent to require being enforced. 
Turning, for example, to Loudon's " Arbore- 
tum," vol. iii. p. 1404, it is stated that the 
Ulmus glabra vegeta, or Huntingdon Elm, 
" is the fastest grower, and produces the best 
timber of all the Elms." Now, amidst our 
doubts on this point, let us suppose how easy 
it would have been to have written to the 
person who undertook the charge of the VI- 
marium, as suggested, with the view of at 
once settling the question. His answer would 
have satisfied us respecting the growth of the 
tree, and if duplicates of all his Elms had been 
planted, a decisive answer might have been 
had also respecting the quality of its timber. 
The Elms are a most important race of plants, 
so are the Oaks: and with regard to the Pines, 
it has been lately discovered that a variety of 
one of the common kinds, which we have been 
in the practice of neglecting, is all-important, 
both as respects its merits as a landscape orna- 
ment, and affording a most durable description 
of timber. The Limes, again, especially in the 
sheltered and softer parts of park scenery, 
where their green and leafy spray forms the 
most grateful of summer umbrage, ought to 
be more extensively cultivated. 
It is to be hoped that in the formation of 
public pleasure-gardens, which Government 
has shown every disposition to establish all 
over the country, advantage will be taken of 
the opportunity thus afforded of introducing 
regular Arboretums ; and to enable all classes 
to enjoy themselves amidst a profusion of 
choice trees and flowering shrubs. Be this as 
it may, it is to be hoped that amateurs who 
are in easy circumstances, and have time at 
their command, will consider the plan sug- 
gested, and immediately set about the forma- 
tion of such desirable undertakings. Ladies, 
too, having royalty as their example, would 
find such novel employment exceedingly inter- 
esting ; and for them, the Rose, the Rose- 
Acacia, the Pavia, Ilex, Ribes, and others of 
a similar habit, may be mentioned as suitable 
plants to commence with. 
HORTICULTURAL NOTES. 
Hardy Brocoli. — The past winter, for we 
hope it has passed, has been more trying to 
plants than many we have experienced, and 
if it do no other good, it will have shown us 
the difference between hardy and half-hardy 
subjects, in some very important families. 
We speak not of things which have survived 
in one place, and been killed in others, but of 
solitary plants, which we have seen among 
thousands of dead ones on the same acre of 
ground unprotected. We have seen a piece 
containing a large number of Brocoli plants, 
rotted to the core, and here and there a soli- 
tary plant equally exposed, without hardly a 
seared leaf. Let not the possessors of such 
plants fancy they have lost much by the frost, 
they should treasure the survivor as a hardy 
kind, and save its seed uncontaminated by the 
brassica tribe in its neighbourhood, even the 
approximation of any should render it neces- 
sary to cover it with a tent of muslin or thin 
canvass. As, however, there may be some 
which have survived, stir the earth round 
them all, plant other crops in the ground, and 
as these heads of flowers rise, it will be seen 
which have any claim to distinction on that 
score. If the bloom come up sprouting, in- 
stead of close, it may be a valuable sort of 
sprouting Brocoli for all that ; if it come up 
handsome it will be better, but before they 
arrive at that state which can be deter- 
mined by the blooms, it can be easily decided 
whether it be worth saving or not. Let it be 
remembered that nothing can be more desir- 
able than a kind of Brocoli that will stand a 
winter like this has been, and if there be any- 
thing like free growing in sprouts, or handsome 
growing into a head, let nothing deter the 
grower from so covering it, that it cannot be 
injured by fertilization from others of the 
cabbage tribe, and save the seed like so much 
gold. We do not recommend people who have 
lost but few, or who have rows in one spot still 
growing, but simply those who find among a 
large piece of exposed Brocoli, a sound un- 
injured plant or two that hereafter show they 
are worth preserving. — Gardeners' Gazette. 
New Pelargoniums. — The following is a 
correct list of the Pelargoniums which haVe 
received prizes at the Horticultural and Royal 
Botanic Societies' Exhibitions, from May, 
1841, to July, 1844. It will show how few 
obtain any distinction out of the thousands 
