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Yucca g/oriosa. Sir, there is now in the garden of G. \V. Newell, Esq., 

 Hollyport Green, near Maidenhead, a plant of the Yucca gloriosa abont 

 five years of age, which flowered in June, 1825. The height was nearly 6 

 feet from the base of the flower stem, which consisted of about 43 panicles, 

 with from 15 to 20 flowers on each. In the course of the autumn of the 

 last and the spring of the present year, two shoots have sprung from the 

 base of the old flower stem, which shoots have this autumn thrown out 

 flowering stems, one of which is now in bloom, and the other in a very 

 forward state, and I have but little doubt will flower, if the weather con- 

 tinues as mild as it is at present. The height of the one in bloom is 5 feet 

 from the base, and the number of panicles are 30, averaging about 14 

 flowers on each, the length of them being 9 inches. A plant of the Yucca 

 filamentosa flowered in very fine style in the same garden in July and 

 August. Is it not an extraordinary circumstance for the Yucca gloriosa to 

 flower two years in succession ? . I am, 



A constant reader of your excellent and useful Gardener's Magazine, 

 Maidenhead, Oct. 14lh, 1826. W. A. F. 



Edwards Square, Kensington, was laid out in 1819, by Mr. Alexander 

 Paul Sack, now Director of the National Botanic Garden at Buenos Ayres, 

 from his own plan. In the Encyclopaedia of Gardening it is erroneously 

 stated to have been laid out from the plan of A. Aigiio, Esq. on the autho- 

 rity, if we recollect right, of Mr. Aigiio himself; but we have not been able 

 to get an explanation from that gentleman, who is, we believe, in Paris. 

 In the mean time, we insert the correction sent us by Mr. Sack. (Sept. ith.) 



SCOTLAND. 



Caledonian Horticultural Society, June 15. The Secretary having read to 

 the Meeting a Report by Mr. Andrew Dickson and Mr. John Hay, relative 

 to the Frame for preserving Wall-Trees, invented by Mr. John Dick, gar- 

 dener to William Trotter, Esq. of Ballendean, and a model of which was 

 sent to the Society some time ago ; and that report being highly favourable, 

 they unanimously voted the Society's Silver Medal to Mr. Dick, and directed 

 that the frame be erected against a wall in the Garden, so as to be properly 

 seen by the members. 



Having heard a report from the meeting of Garden Committee, held on 

 the 8th of June, relative to some remarkable clusters of cultivated Mush- 

 rooms sent from Pinkie House, and having also considered the merit of 

 Mr. James Stewart, the gardener there, in forcing and blanching Rhubarb- 

 stalks in the open ground in the manner of sea-kale, the Council unani- 

 mously agreed that the Society's Silver Medal be awarded to Mr. Stewart, 

 and that he be requested to allow an account of his practice of forcing 

 and blanching Rhubarb to be printed in the Memoirs. 



July 6. Five prizes were awarded for different fruits. 



Sept. 6. Nineteen prizes were awarded for fruits, which were in general 

 of excellent quality, and afforded abundant evidence of the attention now 

 paid to the higher branches of horticulture in this country. Some pleas- 

 ing proofs were given of the advancement of horticultural improvement in 

 the production, at this meeting, of two seedling Peaches, a seedling Grape- 

 vine, two seedling Apples, and a seedling Pear. The seedling Peaches 

 were presented to the Committee by the Honourable Sir Alexander Hope, 

 Bart, of Luffness, personally : he stated that they had been raised at the 

 garden of his nephew the Earl of Hopetoun, by Mr. James Smith, the 

 gardener at Hopetoun House. One of the sorts was regarded as being of 

 most excellent quality ', and the Committee unanimously recommended 

 that an extra medal be awarded to Mr. Smith for this production, with a 



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