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the height of the plant, from the ground to the summit, is twelve feet six iuches ; 

 the fower stalk is nine feet six inches. About forty-seven panicles grow out of 



the stalk, each of which is eighteen inches or upwards in length ; with between 

 twenty and thirty flowers on each panicle. The flowers are bell- shaped, white, 

 with purplish stripes on each petal ; they hang downwards, have a little odour, 

 but not very pleasant, and remain in bloom about three weeks." Mrs. Marshall's 

 Yucca flowered in her green-house, August 4. The plant is about fourteen feet 

 high; it is twenty years old, and has flowered three times. . The flowers, which 

 on each successive blooming are larger than at the former, are bell-shaped, oh a 

 stalk about three and a half feet high, and project from it in a conical form. (See 

 p. 458.) 



Koelreuteria ■paniculata, like many other exotics, has bloomed remarkably strong 

 this year, in consequence of the wood having been so well ripened last year. 

 We have seldom two such dry warm summers in succession Specimens of the 

 flowers of a tree at Ham House, Essex, were sent us, and a description of the 

 tree by Mr. James Loudon, gardener there. It is between thirty and forty feet 

 high, with a trunk nearly one foot in diameter, and twelve feet from the ground to 

 where the first branches protrude. The branches form a conical head, thirty feet 

 wide at the base ; which, on the 8th of August, was completely covered with 

 bright yellow blossoms, to the admiration of every body who saw it. 



There is a Constantinople Nut Tree, (Corylus Colurna}, at Ham House, forty 

 feet high, the trunk about three feet and a half in circumference, and clear of 

 branches to the height of fourteen feet ; the branches form a flattened cone, above 

 fifty feet wide at the base, and heavily laden with nuts. 



