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Unseasonable Inflorescence , fyc. — Owing to the early spring, the warm 

 summer, and the late abundant rains, many trees and plants are now in blos- 

 som for the second time ; and trees in our own garden at Bayswater, such as 

 Salisbury, .Diospyrus, Sophdra, &c, have made midsummer shoots, which do 

 not generally do so. We have the (Spiraea bella a second time in flower. 

 The Caprifolium sinense is also covered with profuse blossoms a second time ; 

 or rather, it has never been completely out of blossom since May. The same 

 may be said of the Wistaria Consequa?za, in the garden of the Horticultural 

 Society. The following instances are from the newspapers : — There is, in 

 the nursery-garden of Mr. JefFery, St. Giles's, Oxford, a standard pear tree 

 most beautifully in blossom. A gentleman, residing at Cooppersale, Essex, 

 has in his garden a Hawthornden with fruit ready to gather, and, at the same 

 time, a profusion of beautiful blossoms. In the garden of Mr. Slater, Newark, 

 there is an apple tree full of beautiful bloom ; it is also loaded with fine large 

 apples, bloom and ripe fruit on one branch. There is also, in the same gar- 

 den, a plum tree in second bloom. There is now in Silver Street, Bedford, 

 an apple tree bearing a second crop of fruit, which promises well ; the first 

 gathering was a good one. A gentleman on the borders of Herts has a 

 cucumber tree [the Hercules club gourd, C'ucurbita Lagenaria var. claviformis 

 Lin., Lagenaria vulgaris var. clavata Ser. (see Vol. II. fig. 29.)] growing in his 

 garden, the fruit from the vine hanging clown, some of which measured 26 in. 

 in length. In the garden of Mr. Martin, at Buckingham, is an apple tree in 

 quite as full and beautiful blossom as trees usually are in the spring, although 

 it has several fine apples on it. Many of the new blooms are set. {Weekly 

 Dispatch, Aug. 25. 1834.) On Aug. 22., in the garden of Mr. John Bennett 

 of Helston, a second crop of strawberries is ripe, from plants which bore 

 abundantly at their proper season. This second crop is as large and as well 

 flavoured as the first. 



New Varieties of Grain. — The Chevalier barley, mentioned p. 508., appears 

 to have been cultivated near Liskeard, and to have produced extraordinary 

 crops of a very superior quality. The Egyptian wheat (TViticum compositum), 

 known in Mark Lane as Robinson's Fancy, of which a fine specimen was 

 lately sent to us, has produced larger crops than usual this season. 



SCOTLAND. 



The Caledonian Horticultural Society intended so to have arranged their 

 annual dinner, as that the competition fruit might have been partaken of by 

 the members of the British Association, who are to meet in Edinburgh on 

 Sept. 7. On mature consideration, however, they found that they could not 

 deviate from the day fixed in their prize list, which had been widely circulated 

 six months before. This day is the 4th of September, and if any of the 

 learned strangers should happen to be in Edinburgh by that time, there is 

 every reason to believe that they will be invited to be present at the Society's 

 dinner. {Edinburgh Advertiser, Aug. 22.) 



Dalkeith, Aug. 20. — All the gardeners in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh 

 are exerting themselves to make a fine display by the time the British Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science arrive in Edinburgh, as it is expected 

 that they will visit most of the gardens in the neighbourhood. The park [that 

 of Dalkeith] never looked better, but I am sorry that I cannot say quite so 

 much for some parts of the gardens. A garden is no sooner full grown and 

 in high order than it begins to decay, and get into confusion. The gardener 

 does not always see this, because the changes come upon him so gradually, 

 that he is not aware of their extent; and he is less aware of this than ever, 

 when his place happens to be a celebrated one. I was in Edinburgh last 

 week, and I never saw the botanic garden looking better. Many shrubs have 

 flowered there this season, better than they ever did before, doubtless owing 

 to the warmth of last summer, which ripened the wood, and that of the pre- 

 sent season, which has been so favourable for expanding the flowers. I never 

 saw the Althaea f'rutex look so well as it does in the nurseries this summer. 



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