f F this excellent Apple we received specimens 
from Mr. Cameron, nurseryman, of Ucktield, 
^ Sussex, who has been the introducer of it to 
P public notice. As the history of nations, and 
the biography of celebrated men, are pleasing 
subjects of incphrv' : so is the histoiy of all 
those objects of horticulture which afford gi-atitication to the 
more refined perceptions of our nature. An introduction to a 
stranger excites the iinpiiiy, “Who is he So also the acquire- 
ment of an unknown plant, induces the search for its history. 
In pursuing our inquiiy regai’ding Mannington's Peannain, we 
found that it had been named by Dr. Lindley, after Mr. ilan- 
nington, who had discovered its qualities, and whose account of 
it is, that the original tree was found in a hedgerow near to the 
