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COLLECTIONS AND RECOLLECTIONS. 
both points meet, one inch, below the bottom of the head. The 
leaves are nine inches long, and four inches broad, the head is very 
compact, and of a beautiful crimson colour. The plant is still in 
good health and appears likely to continue so for some time. 
Congleton, Oct. 9, 1832. 4 J. Gibson. 
The Anemone. —The history of this flower is curious. It was 
brought to France in the early part of the 18th century, we’believe 
from Persia. The kind first introduced was the semi-double or seed 
bearing variety : the gentleman who brought it to Paris was exceed¬ 
ingly jealous of his flowers, and no entreaty could prevail upon him 
to part with one of them; but they were at last procured by a trick. 
A person to whom he was shewing his parterre, let fall his clock, as 
if accidentally, on the anemone bed then in seed, and hastily gather¬ 
ing it up, with an apology for his awkwardness, some of the seed, as 
was intended, stuck to the velvet, which a servant, who was in the 
secret, hastily picked off and concealed. The seed thus obtained 
was sown, grew, and by the liberality of the ingenious plunderer, 
the flower soon became common in Paris, and throughout Europe. 
Ringwood Hants. A Subscriber. 
Account of the Heaviest Gooseberries grown in 1832.— 
Red. Lion, 27 dwts, 13 grs. Young Wonderful, 27 dwts. 13 grs. 
Briton 26 dwts. 10 grs. Companion 26 dwts. 6 grs.- 
Yellow. Leader 26 pennyweights and 9 grains. Gunner, 25 dwts. 
17 grs. Teazer, 25 dwts, 6 grs. Two-to-one, 25 dwts. 3 grs. Duck 
wing, 23 dwts. 21 grs.— Green. Mr. Brathertons new seedling, called 
the Bumper, 30 dwts. 18 grs.; this is the heaviest green on the 
gooseberry record. Peacock, 25 dwts. 8 grs. Invincible, 23 dwts. 
20 grs. Lord Crewe, 22 dwts. 11 grs.— White. —Ostrich, 24 dwts. 
20 grs. Fleur de lis, 23 dwts. 9 grs. Eagle 23 dwts. 6 grs. Chorister 
24 dwts. 7 grs. There are five new Red seedlings, five yellow, four 
white, and nine green issued thi s year, which are expected to prove a 
valuable acquisition. g AUL 
0N . sei:dl 'n« Peach Trees.— There is now 
' f \ ’ ' § lcmill g ln the neighbourhood of Windsor, two most 
thriving Peach Trees of the michaelmas or late sort; covering at 
least twenty feet of wall, which seven years ago were raised from 
stones. They were placed in a garden pot, and shortly after they 
made their appearance, were planted in the situations they now occu¬ 
py. Though never innoculated or grafted they bear the most luxu¬ 
riant fruit; this autumn I measured several of them, and found them 
eight inches in circumference; the variety from whence the stocks 
were raised, precisely agree with the present fruit. 
G. S. Somerset. 
