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COLLECTIONS AND RECOLLECTIONS. 
three feet nine inches, Elm three feet ten inches. Ash three feet ele¬ 
ven inches, Italian Poplar four feet two inches. Larch four feet eight 
inches. The average girth of the same trees was from one foot high to 
15 Feet,... 
21 inches. 
18 Feet,... 
26 inches. 
10 Feet,... 
27 inches. 
15 Feet,... 
30 inches. 
12 Feet,... 
32 inches. 
20 Feet,... 
39 inches. 
14 Feet,... 
44 inches. 
20 Feet,... 
44 inches. 
J. Hughes. 
This Article was inserted page 308, but owing to one of the mea¬ 
surements being mistaken for height instead of circumference, the 
meaning of the writer was not conveyed. J. P. 
Weeping Trees.— Mr. William Anderson, Curator of the Bota¬ 
nic Garden at Chelsea, writes as follows to the Prussian Gardening- 
Society. Fascicles or bundles of shoots are often observed on trees, 
which resemble a bird’s nest at a distance; but, when examined, they 
prove to be a cluster of small twigs. Such bundles are observed on 
different trees, but more frequently on the white or common birch 
tree. In the year 1808, I observed such a bundle on a Crataegus 
(Mespilus) Oxyacantha, (hawthorn) and grafted young thorns with 
them, which, in two or three years, produced beautiful weeping 
branches. About the same time, I observed such a bundle on Ulmus 
campestris, (common elm) eyes of which were budded on healthy 
young trees, and every one produced a long hanging shoot. Accord¬ 
ing to this observation, it would be very easy to produce a large 
collection of drooping or weeping trees. Our gardeners, however, 
multiply no species so numerously as the Fraxinus exeelsor var 
pendula (weeping ash); which variety often retains its hanging 
character when raised from seeds. We possess several such trees, 
of about ten feet in height, which were raised from seed of the origi¬ 
nal tree, obtained in 1780, from a nurseryman, who found it a few 
years previous to that, in the neighbourhood of Newmarket, in 
Cambridgeshire. 
How to Destroy Earwigs. —Being similarly circumstanced 
with your correspondent W. G., I was pleased with the simple, and 
I have no doubt, efficacious plan of an amateur florist, who destroyed 
Earwigs by taking a piece of coarse paper, folding it round two or 
three plies and pinning it at the top, thus forming a cap to fit the top 
of the Dahlia stake loosely, leaving room for the earwigs to creep up 
