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OF TIIE TEA PLANT. 
an edged flower. There is also WidnalVs Apollo, which is one of the 
best scarlet flowers ; and the King of the Whites, as a white flower, is 
yet unequalled. I think the Register ought to give occasional notices 
of this beautiful flower, and hoping to see some account of it soon, 
I remain yours obediently, 
October 20 th, 1835. I ciKcofios. 
MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 
A curious display of the constitutional structure of the pine-apple 
has lately occurred in the Exotic Nursery of Mr. Knight, King’s 
Road, Chelsea. A few plants of one of the common varieties were 
placed among other plants in one of the stoves. They did not receive 
pine culture, but were kept cramped in the same pots for a considerable 
time, and consequently arrived at no great size. This confinement, 
however, did not prevent, but rather hastened, their showing fruit, but 
of so diminutive a size that they were not worth going to table. No 
suckers of any size were produced ; but the crowns took a new growth, 
and in their turn showed another fruit, making two on the same stem. 
Nor is this all, the second crown of one of the plants was also excited 
into a new growth, and has now put forth a fruit, being the third on 
the same stem, and nourished by the same root. 
This uncommon appearance has been occasioned by the artificial state 
in which the plants have been kept. If they had had space to have 
admitted expansion, and fresh diet to have nourished and amplified 
their various parts, the first fruit would have swelled to the natural - 
size, the aftergrowth of the crown would have been checked, and 
suckers would have been produced from the bottom of the stem in the 
usual manner; but the atmosphere in which they grew, being both 
very warm and very moist, excited the stem more than it did the roots 
(confined as they were, and without the means of increase), so that its 
upward growth was accelerated, at the expense of the fruit, which 
were small and worthless. 
Of the Tea Plant.— Accounts have been lately received from 
India, and published in the Gardener’s Magazine, that the tea-plant 
has been found wild in Upper Assam, within the Company’s territory, 
north-east of Bengal. As this new country is bordering on the western 
boundary of China, it is very probable that the original tea, so easily 
distributable by seed, is indigenous to that so little known district. 
It has long been an object of the East India Company to introduce 
