We interrupt the series of articles on our tour in 1833, to give place to these notes, because some of them are comparatively of immediate interest. The object of our present tour was to examine the trees in the arboretums of the Goldworth Nursery, White Knights, and the Milford Nursery; and to notice such others as fell in our way. We may observe, here, that it will not be too late during the next three months to send us the dimensions of trees for our Arboretum; and that we are just as anxious to receive the dimensions of the common oaks, elms, ashes, sycamores, beeches, &c., of the country, as we are those of foreign trees. We mention this, because, during this excursion, we found some gardeners who thought common trees not of sufficient interest for our work. In order to convince others, who may entertain the same opinion, that this is by no means the case, we shall in a future Number show the use which we intend to make of the Return Papers in the Arboretum Britannicum, by inserting a specimen of what we mean to say of the Magnolia grandiflora, as being one of the finest of foreign trees; and of the common sycamore, as one of the trees of most frequent occurrence. It will be seen how many more returns we have had of the former tree than of the latter, which we can only account for from the cause mentioned. We shall also show, in another paper (Art IV.), a simple mode of ascertaining the height of large trees; to all which particulars we are anxious to direct the attention of those readers who are willing to aid us in rendering our Arboretum Britannicum as perfect a work as possible.
