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Lord Byron £50 to allow it to remain, which offer his Lordship readily ac¬ 
cepted, and an agreement was speedily made, to the effect that neither Lord 
Byron, or any future proprietor ofNewstead, should ever have the power to 
cut down this tree, but when it dies, the ground on which it stands or over¬ 
shadows with its wide-spreading branches, should again belong to the pos¬ 
sessor of the Newstead estate. This agreement is regularly entered in the 
estate deeds, and we should think, it is the only tree in existence, which it 
would be unlawful to cut down Mr. Dodsworth, deserves to have his name 
recorded and rendered illustrious, for a deed so noble. Until within these 
few years, this tree was partly surrounded by young trees, planted by the 
late Lord Byron, but Col. Wiidman has cleared them away for a considerable 
distance, and with excellent taste, has his principal entrance from the London 
Road, opposite to it. The outer branches are about 200 feet in circumference, 
and the bole, about 4 feet from the ground, measures 13 feet in circumference; 
the tree appears to be about 150 years of age; and looked when we saw it 
last spring, remarkably healthy.—Col. Wiidman was then about erecting a 
seat round it, as an accommodation and rest for the weary traveller. —Cond. 
IV.—HORTICULTURAL AND FLORICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 
LONDON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
On the 1st of May, a Lecture was delivered iu the Society’s Rooms, Regent-Street, by Mr, 
Lindley, F R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S., Prof. Bot. Univ. Loud., which was well attended. The Pro- 
lessor principally dilated on the Physiology and Anatomy of plants, classing them under three 
heads. Vascular, Cellular, and Fibrose ; which he explained by large drawings with the assu¬ 
med vessels very much magnified. No living proof was brought forward, except a feeble one, 
in the stalk of a Strawberry leaf having a tortuous pith. He attempted to prove that metallic 
hot-houses w ere preferable to wooden ones, in as much, as they afforded a greater degree of 
light, tlms giving a colouring to fruit, leaving out the effects of heat altogether; he also ex¬ 
patiated on a south.wall being preferable to a north one, for the same reason, without regard 
to heat. After some general remarks on the circulation of the sap ; the Professor stated, that 
a foreigner at Modena, had discovered in the Canna, a circulation, something like that of the 
blood in the human body. He then proceeded to state another arrangement, dividing the ve- 
.getable world into two parts; Vuccct Aloefolia, exhibited to illustrate one, and the 
Mlasticus, the other. Upon the "whole, the Lecture was well received. 
The PERiODic.iL Meeting of the Society, was lately held at their Great Rooms, Regent 
Street, Dr. Henderson in the chair. It presented the most brilliant assemblage that ever 
met on a similar occasion ; the room was tastefully decorated with a great variety of shrubs and 
and flowers. There were more than 40 different species of the Rose, ail in full fbloom ; 4 va¬ 
rieties of the Horse-Chesnut, variegated; several varieties of the lioney.suckle; Lupines, and 
Pceonies, in f*erfection. But the most fragrant of all the flowers, was the Aerides cornvium^ 
All these were eloquently expatiated upon by hlr. Lindley, the as.sistant secretary, l.ord Caer¬ 
narvon sent from his garden at Highclere, some noble Rhododendrons, and other beautiful and 
rare shrubs, which he had cultivated with complete success. Mr. Youugof Epsom, Mr. Groom, 
and Mr. Donald, each seat some choice shrubs and flowers, and Mr. Welstead favoured the 
Society, with a basket of excellent Black Hamburgh Grapes. 
Fete at Ciiisvvjcic, June 22nd, 1831.—This is the Fourth Exibition, the Society has 
had, iu the Gardens at Chiswick, and although tlie weather was e.xtremely favorable for the 
occasion, the attendance of rank was much less than any previous year. 'I'he number of 
'J'ickets hired for this Fete, was about 3900, being GOO less than that which took place 2 years 
ago, however owing to the unfavorable state of the weather at that time, not half of those who 
had Tickets came; but at the present one, \rry fow, if any, were absent, the attei dance as 
therefore upon the whole, more numerous than on any former occasion. At the Fete, 2 years 
since, more than 900 Tickets were gratuitously given to the inhabitants of the neighbourhood, 
and to such Fellows with their friends, as were desirous of seeing the preparations. See. the day 
previous.—We much regret that this privilege was not granted this year, the reasons of which 
■we ar« at a loss to account for, as from our own experience, wc can speak to the good behavi* 
