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the beauty of the plant alone consists. Messrs. Jackson 

 stated that the flower-spike, after it had somewhat advanced, 

 was much improved both in size and beauty by keeping the 

 heart of the plant out of which it issued full of water. To 

 Mr. Wilmot, F.H.S., for a little-known kind of Pine-apple, 

 named Black Prince, weighing 5 lbs. 6£ ozs. It resembled 

 the sort called Buck's Seedling or an Enville ; but it was 

 stated to be better flavoured than the latter, to keep better, 

 and not to be so liable to decay at the core. It is reported 

 to have been raised by a Mr. Entwistle, near Rochdale, who 

 has grown it nearly 10 lbs. weight, and of excellent flavour. 

 It is a first-rate Pine-apple. 



Miscellaneous Subjects of Exhibition. Very fine speci- 

 mens of Cannon Hall Muscat Grapes from' J. Nash, Esq., 

 of Bishop's Stortford. A Blood Pine-apple, weighing 3 lbs. 

 12 ozs., from Mr. Wilmot, F.H.S. The extremely rare and 

 beautiful Vanda violacea, and 3 small plants of the Orange- 

 flowered Aphelandra aurantiaca, from Mrs. Lawrence, F.H.S. 

 The delicate Odontoglossum membranaceum and other 

 Orchids from Messrs. Jackson. Zygopetalum Mackayii from 

 J. S. Venn, Esq., of Highbury Park. A seedling Heath, 

 called elegantissima, raised between E. Hartnelli and hie- 

 malis, from Mr. Henderson, of the Wellington Poad Nur- 

 sery, and a dwarf handsomely-flowered Chrysanthemum 

 from Mr. Moore, Apothecaries' Garden, Chelsea. " The 

 accompanying plant of Chrysanthemum," Mr. Moore stated, 

 " is part of the result of a rough trial to grow these showy 

 autumnal subjects in a more compact form than that in 

 which they are generally seen. It is the best of half-a- 

 dozen, of which two or three were failures, in consequence 

 of the flower-buds going blind. This plant, however, though 

 past its best, shows, I think conclusively, that Chrysanthe- 

 mums may be grown to very great perfection as regards the 

 proportions of the plants, and that it is by no means neces- 

 sary to have them with such bare and lanky stems as the 

 generality of even tolerably bushy plants are seen to possess. 

 The plants experimented on in this case were single-stemmed 

 cuttings without roots in March of the present year. They 

 were planted in the ordinary way, and, when rooted, potted 

 singly, sheltered for a month or two in a cold frame, and 

 during the remainder of the summer, up to the end of Sep- 

 tember, have stood exposed on a gravel walk. They were 

 first topped when about 3 inches high, that is, as soon as 

 they were established separately ; and from time to time, as 

 soon as shoots had grown to this length, more or less, they 

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