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Sept, 24. The Florists^ Society held their grand dahlia show, when a very 

 spfendid collection of flowers was exhibited. The first prize was obtained by 

 Mr. Widnall. (Cavib?idge Chronicle.') 



Cornwall. — Royal Horticultural Society. May 27. A very rare speci- 

 men of the Melaleijca pubescens [? incana], sent by G. C. Fox, Esq., was en- 

 titled to particular notice, from the circumstance of its having flowered in the 

 open ground. The specimens and groups of indigenous plants reflected the 

 greatest credit on the exhibiters. Among them were several valuable additions 

 to the hortus siccus of the Society, for which it is indebted to the persevering 

 industry and talent of Miss Warren. There was only a small collection of 

 fruits ; but the samples exhibited were good, particularly of apples, the pro- 

 duce of last year, some of which were beautifully preserved. We noticed some 

 handsome oranges, which had been grown in the open air without protection, 

 from the garden of M. Williams, Esq., Trevince j and a dish of ripe straw- 

 berries, from Mr. Stephens of Penryn. The show of vegetables, the produce 

 of this season, was highly creditable: the greatest novelty in this class was a 

 dish of good-sized tubers of the O'xalis crenata, or sorrel potato, from G. C.Fox, 

 Esq., Grove Hill, Falmouth. Among the stove plants was a species of On- 

 cidium, sent for exhibition from the garden of Mr. C. Lemon, which is the 

 third species out of a collection imported this season from Havannah, by 

 Capt, Sutton of Flushing, near Plymouth, which has flowered, and proved to 

 be new. Several exotics (names not given) were shown, which had been 

 growing for several years in the open air without any protection. There was a 

 fine display of flowers from the nurseries of Mr. Rundle and Mr. Pontey of 

 Plymouth, and of Mi* Rundle of St. Austin. The cottagers' prizes were very 

 numerous and very good. (West Briton, May 29.) 



July 15. The chairman called the attention of the meeting to some choice 

 exotics, raised by G. C. Fox, Esq., from seeds sent from the East Indies by 

 Captain Jenkins, the discoverer of the tea plant in Assam. [It has been stated 

 in the newspapers to be Major Grant who made this discovery.] The cot- 

 tagers' prizes were remarkably numerous and good. Among the fruits was a 

 large bunch of " that excellent variety, the Tottenham Park muscat, from the 

 garden of M. Williams, Esq., of Trevince. A dish of handsome oranges was 

 pointed out to us as having been grown in the open air in the garden of G. C. 

 Fox, Esq., at Grove Hill ; and a small dish of the Gaulther?'«! Shdllon, remark- 

 able as being the fruit which the North-west American Indians compress into 

 thick cakes for winter food, v/as furnished from the garden of Sir Charles Le- 

 mon, Bart., M. P. Some of the gooseberries grown by Mr. Goffe of Falmouth 

 might, we think, have challenged comparison with any of those exhibited in 

 Lancashire. There was also a beautiful dish of apples of IS.S^, from Captain 

 Sutton of Flushing, who, we hope, will favour the Society with an account of 

 the method of preserving them which he has so successfully adopted." The 

 exotic plants from the garden of Sir John St. Aubyn, E. W. Pendarves, Esq., 

 &c., were very fine; particularly a beautiful spike of ^^chium nervosum from 

 a plant which has been in the open ground for four or five years, and has now 

 between 30 and 40 spikes of flowers on it, exhibited by Mr. Pendarves ; and a 

 seedling fuchsia, raised by Charles Bate, Esq., which has much of the habit of 

 F. globosa, though it is perfectly distinct from that species. For the princi- 

 pal novelties in the collection of indigenous plants, we are indebted to Miss 

 Warren of Flushing, and Miss Rodd. The latter discovered the Ceterach of- 

 ficinarum on an old wall at Pintillie ; the beautiful Hymenophyllum tunbridgense 

 on a granite rock in the Cascade Wood, at Trebartha; and Orobanche rubra, 

 which had never before been found in England. Miss Warren exhibited a beau- 

 tiful group of aquatics, and other indigenous plants, from the vicinity of Fal- 

 mouth ; Mr. Sleeman and Mr, Jones exhibited a similarly interesting group from 

 the neighbourhood of Helston. It is somewhat remarkable that Miss Warren 

 should have also detected the Hymenophyllum tunbridgense in College Wood, 

 near Penryn j a specimen of it from that place was on the table. {Ibid., 

 July 21.) 



