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Flowers. — We have seen • an estimate of the profusion of flowers which 

 decorated the rooms in the Hotel de Ville, at the fete given there in honour of the 

 marriage of the Duke d'Orleans. 11,793 plants, in pots, boxes, and vases, 

 besides 2,500 nosegays presented to ladies, were furnished by one individual, and 

 that individual a female, Madame Augustine Copin. who is at the head of an 

 establishment on the Boulevard St. Jacques, where her gardens are situated. — 

 Athenaeum, as quoted in the Star in the East, Feb. 10, 1838 ; and subsequently 

 communicated in a letter from Mr. Hall. 



The Season. — The following extracts as to the mildness of the season, from the 

 provincial papers, contrast strongly with the state of the weather during the last 

 few days : — There is at this time, in the garden of Mr. G. Robinson, of Bramp- ' 

 ton, near Northallerton, a large Pear-tree in full blossom. — Leeds Intelligencer. — 

 A posy, consisting of Daisies, Primroses, Snowdrops, and other flowers, was 

 gathered at Kirklees, on New Year's-day. — Halifax Excess. — In a hedge at the 

 outskirts of this town there is a Hawthorn-bush part of which is in leaf, and 

 which wears in appearance all the freshness of summer. In the village of 

 Smalesbury a friend of ours a few days ago gathered some full-blown Primroses. 

 — Preston Chronicle. — Sheffield Mercury, Jan. 13, 1838. 



Extraordinary Increase of a Pea. — Mr. G. Gale, of South Petherton, has 

 a sort of Pea grown in his garden this season which proved extraordinarily pro- 

 ductive. One Pea produced 177 pods, and on an average each pod produced six 

 peas, thus a single pea produced 1,062 of its kind, equal to 1,062 bushels out of 

 one bushel of seed. — The Guide, Oct. 14, 1837. 



Cultivation of the Cranberry. — In the Transactions of the Horticultural 

 Society, Mr. Milne recommends the more extended cultivation of the Cranberry. 

 He observes, " I have been long convinced that both species may be grown with 

 much advantage in numberless situations in this island, and have been surprised 

 that cottagers and others, living on or in the neighbourhood of moors and heaths, 

 covered with soils suitable to their growth, have not been advised to cultivate 

 them for profit." According to Lightfoot, twenty or thirty pounds weight of the 

 berries are sold by the poor people each market day, for five or six weeks together, 

 in the town of Longtown, on the borders of Cumberland. This is a considerable 

 sum for berries picked up from barren wastes, and in a district so thinly inhabited; 

 and it is remarkable that the ready sale for them has not tempted some person 

 to make the trial to supply the market in a more certain and more regular way; 

 if they could not be consumed or disposed of in the neighbourhood where they 

 may be grown, they could easily be sent to a great distance without being spoiled. 

 There is one strong argument in favour of their cultivation, which is, that they 

 may be made to grow with little trouble in places and on soils where few other 

 useful plants yet known will grow to advantage. It may be said that the 



