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with species of several of tiie less beautiful genera. They arc all in excellent 

 condition. — J. P. Chatsworth, October 11. 1837. 



Mdlva Fut/eriiina. — A new species or variety, from the island of Antigua, is 

 said to have flowered for the first time in August last, in the green-house of 

 Mr. Fuller of Worthing. The flowers are said to be numerous, very splendid, 

 and of the size of a breakfast cup. (^IIu/l Journ., as quoted by the Sheffield 

 Iris, Oct. 17. 1837.) 



Agave americdna. — A specimen of this plant is just now in flower in the 

 garden of Mr. Collinge, Grange Road, in the town of St. Pierre Port, Guernsey. 

 It has been planted out about twenty-five years. Its height is nearly 30 ft., and 

 it is still growing. The flowers of the lowest branches are just beginning to 

 expand; so that, if the weather prove favourable, it may continue to bloom till 

 Christmas. — JV. C.jun. St. Pierre Port, Giiernsei/, Sept. 27. 1837. 



The Four heaviest Gooseberries grown in England in 1837 are, red, Compa- 

 nion, 23dwt. 12 gr., grown by Mr. Baker, Staffordshire; yellow, Leader, 

 22 dwt., by Mr. J. Richardson, Davenham ; green. Overall, 20 dwt., by Mr. 

 J. Richardson, Davenham ; white. Tally-ho, 23 dwt. 4 gr., by Mr, J. Brother- 

 ton, Wistaston. (Newsp.) 



A Mushroom, attaining the almost incredible size of 3 ft. 1 in. in circumference, 

 and from which very nearly a pint of ketchup was extracted, was last week 

 gathered in a field belonging to J. P. Burman, Esq., Henley in Arden, War- 

 wickshire. {Morn. Chron., Sept. 12.) 



SCOTLAND. 



The Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland held their grand 

 annual meeting at Dumfries, on Oct. 1., when many premiums were awarded 

 for live stock, various descriptions of produce, implements, roots, and seeds, 

 &c. Among the implements exhibited were, a turning-machine, for making 

 rake and fork handles ; a machine attached to a common cart, for filling in and 

 rolling the ruts of roads ; a subsoil plough, convertible into a draining and 

 trenching plough. Among the roots and seeds exhibited were, a new potato, 

 from Chile ; a new white carrot, the Rochan potato, the golden globe mangel 

 wurtzel, Ficia villosa, the winter oat, Alsike clover from Sweden ; Pinus unci- 

 nata and pyrenaica, obtained by Messrs. Lawson and Son from the Pyrenees, 

 through the kindness of Sir John Nasmy th, Bart. ; specimens of the Pinus aus- 

 triaca and P. sylvestris, exhibiting the superiority of growth of the former 

 species. 



A Swedish Turnip, grown at Balgone, on the home farm of Sir George Sutty, 

 Bart., near North Berwick, by his bailiff", Mr. Scougall, was taken up on the 

 the 30th of Aug. last, when, of course, it was not half the size which it would 

 have attained, and found to weigh 7 J lb., and to measure 21 in. round. 

 (Scotsman, Aug. 30.) 



A Globe Turnip, on the same farm, taken up on the same day, weighed 2 Ia lb., 

 and measured 41 in. in circumference. This turnip, and the one mentioned 

 above, were sent to the Scotsman newspaper office, and there weighed and mea- 

 sured, so that there cannot be a doubt as to the correctness of this statement. 

 Should Mr. Scougall see this, we shall be very much obliged to him if he will 

 weigh and measure some of his turnips, when fully grown, and send us the par- 

 ticulars, together with an estimate of the bulk and weight per statute acre, the 

 price they would sell for per ton, and the quantity of beef, mutton, butter, or 

 milk, which it is estimated a ton of each kind would produce. — Cond. 



A white Globe Turnip, grown by Mr. Scougall, is at present exhibiting at 

 Messrs. Dodd's, seedsmen, Haddington, weighing 30^ lb., and measuring 

 40 in. in circumference. (Scotsman, Oct. 11. 1837.) 



Two immense Cabbages were lately exhibited at the general meeting of the 

 Falkirk Horticultural Society; the one an early cabbage, weighing 341b., and 

 the other a late cabbage, 4ft. in circumference. The person who grew them 

 (Mr. John Johnstone, a bootmaker) is said to have raised a prize cow cabbage 

 upwards of [?] 18 ft. round. (Scotsman, '^e[A. 21 . 1837.) 



