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The last summer festival was the seventeenth : the salon 

 was opened on Sunday the 29th of June, and closed on 

 the 2d of July. 



The following are the plants which have hitherto been 

 crowned at the different summer and winter festivals. 



Summer. 



1800, Plumeria rubra. 



1810, Coffea Arabica. 



1811, Gardenia Florida. 



1812, Paeonia chinensis, double 



white (P. albiflora). 



1813, Erythrina coralloden- 



drum. 



1814, Ixora coccinea. 



1815, Protea speciosa. 



1816, Kalmia latifolia. 



Winter. 



Erica triflora. 



Rosa muscosa. 



Camellia Japonica, double 



white. 

 Limodorum (Bletia) Tanker- 



villiae. 

 Paeonia suffruticosa (Moutan). 



(No exhibition). 

 Musa coccinea. 

 Strelitzia reginae. 



Amateurs or others intending to visit Ghent, may per- 

 haps like to know the names and residences of the pro- 

 prietors of those crowned plants. We shall therefore men- 

 tion both, as far as our information extends. The plu- 

 meria belonged to M. Du Coulombier ; the erica to M. 

 Lebegue, dealer in plants near Ghent ; the moss-rose and 

 limodorum, to M. Mussche, superintendant of the Botanic 

 Garden ; the camellia, to M. Mortier ; the moutan and 

 kalmia latifolia, to M. J. Van Aken ; the musa, to the 

 Baron Baut de Ramson at Wanneghen ; the strelitzia, gar- 

 denia and nerium, to the Baron de Vroyelande at Marie- 

 Leerne ; the coffee-tree, to M. Lievin Bauwens, manu- 

 facturer in Ghent ; the paeonia albiflora and protea, to M. 

 Van Cassel, nurseryman near Ghent ; the erythrina, to 

 M. Van Berghe at Leerne ; and the ixora, to Madame 

 Vilain Quatorze, near Wetteren. 



