The amount of fruit trees that may be placed in a small garden has frequently been noticed. A recent paragraph from California will be remembered by our readers. We now find it stated that a Mr. Caprotte, near Paris, has three thousand yards long of trellis covered with the Chas-selas de Fontainbleau grape, producing him annually on small premises two thousand five hundred dollars.

We regret to announce, says the London Gardener's Chronicle, the decease on the 10th, at Turnham Green of Mr. George McEwen, in the thirty-eighth year of his age. During the fourteen months that he acted as Superintendent of the Garden of the Horticultural Society he evinced so much skill and energy as to make it a subject of the most lively regret that so great a spirit should have dwelt in so frail a body.

The good that might be done by teaching the use of one's eyes to the young is illustrated by the Rev. J. S. Henslow, of England, who has a school in which poor children are instructed in Botany and the names of trees and plants. He has lately offered two prices to his scholars of twenty-five dollars and fifteen dollars for the best collections of dried wild flowers and plants growing within four miles of the school When shall we have teachers in our public schools who know a willow tree from a gooseberry bush.

THE Messrs. Henderson, of the Wellington Road nurseries, London, says a correspondent, have the following new plants:

A new Aucuba, from Japan, as hardy as Aucuba Japonica, with as large, if not larger, leaves, and all the leaves as dark green as those of the Portugal Laurel. This will make a splendid addition to our hardy evergreens. It was got over by Dr. Sicholst, who has an experimental garden at Bonn, on the Rhine.

A new Rondeletia, from China - perhaps the free-flowering kind; but it is very different from Ronddetia Championi, having leaves more like a Portugal Laurel on long footstalks, and with the underside as glaucous as the leaves of Magnolia glauca.

A new Conoclinium, with leaves more like those of Gesnera zebrina. Gardenia citriodora, having the growth like Burchellia Capensis, and flowering in clusters at the joints of last year's wood, pure white, and as wide as a shilling. A most valuable acquisition to our sweet-smelling plants. Blue Allamanda is here also.

They have also Chamacyparis thuriferae, which is selling off like " wild fire." This was the Conifer which was balloted for at the Horticultural Society. Cupressus Lawsoni, McNabiana, and Bregeoni, Thuja gigantea (Low), and ditto (Veitch); the two appear to be quite distinct. Thuiopsis borealis, Podocarpus nubigena, Pinus Bungeana, and many others; Picea bracteata, and lota of "fly flappers," or real standards of Deutzia gracilis, from three to five feet high in the stem. Everything is eagerly made into standards now, and gets a ready sale; this winter house is half full of standards of all kinds, and there is a most valuable sort of fountain Cactus, of the Mallisoni section. I recommend this Cactus to the whole world, and I never saw or heard of it before. It is the work of some amateur, the kind is called Scotica. The old plant is trained up round a pillar to a height of seven feet. D. B.

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Lord Stanley, before quitting the Colonial Office, authorized a grant of 10002. towards defraying the cost of a complete account of Australian vegetation.