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At the same Meeting, Mr. John Wilmot, of Isle- 

 worth, exhibited two undescribed Plums, both of which 

 must be considered as new fruits. The first was a Green 

 Gage, growing on its own root ; the fruit was very large, and 

 high coloured, much superior to the common standard 

 Green Gage. The plant was found by Mr. Wilmot, grow- 

 ing in his garden at Isleworth when he first occupied it, in the 

 year 1810 ; he was much pleased with the appearance of the 

 fruit, and more so when he observed that the tree had not 

 been worked : he consequently preserved it. The second was 

 a new variety of Orleans Plum, from a standard tree raised by 

 Mr. Wilmot himself, about ten years ago ; this seems likely 

 to be a great acquisition to the market gardeners ; it is earlier 

 than the Plum called the New Orleans, and as large as the Old 

 Orleans, but differing in shape from it, being rather more 

 contracted at the top ; it is a certain bearer, in consequence of 

 its producing its bloom so much later than others of its kind ; 

 when most of the early flowering Plums have set their fruit, 

 and the bloom of others is fully expanded, the blossoms of 

 this kind are not even opened. These Plums will probably 

 be hereafter called the Isleworth Green Gage, and Wilmot' s 

 Orleans. 



September 1st, 1818. Abraham Hawkins, Esq. of 

 Alston, near Kingsbridge, in Devonshire, communicated a 

 note of his success in treating the Gnidia simplex, as an out- 

 door shrub; in the spring of 1816, he turned a small plant 

 of it into an open border, ten feet distant from the front of 

 a wall facing the south-east. It is now full three feet high, 

 and about the same in diameter, forming a very handsome 



