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VEGETABLE MORPHOLOGY. 
cypress, yew, &c., to shed a suitable gloom over the quiet walks, the 
cloisters, the study, and the chapel of the palace. Gay gardens, open 
lawns, and sprightly scenes would be here misplaced, for seclusion 
should be the predominating characteristic of the demesne. 
Castellated mansions should be accompanied with traces of their 
ancient defences, in respect of the disposition of the ground round the 
base. In the formation of a scarp, counterscarp, glacis, &c., the 
designer may make a very convenient and very suitable disposition 
of the ground and plantation, by taking a lesson from the art of 
fortification. 
(To be continued.) 
MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 
Vegetable Morphology. —At a meeting of the Horticultural 
Society, held at the house in Regent Street, on Tuesday, the 20th of 
September, a branch of a pear-tree was exhibited as a great natural 
curiosity. The branch had one pear upon it, and the axis of the shoot, 
on which the fruit was produced, was continued through the pear, and 
developed several leaves above it. Perhaps it would be more proper 
to state, that the axis of the shoot did not terminate in the usual way ; 
that is, at the base of the footstalk or peduncle of the fruit, but was 
prolonged through the fleshy calyx, and was continued beyond. 
This accident is by no means uncommon, for many of the highly cul¬ 
tivated varieties of the pear and other fruits present the same kind of 
malformation frequently. Mr. Saul, of Lancaster, a most ingenious 
mechanist, and an enthusiastic lover of gardening, sent us a drawing of 
a shoot having no less than three imperfect pears upon it, one above 
another. Pine-apple plants sometimes present the same deformity— 
that is, bearing three fruit on the same stem, one above another. The 
double-flowering cherry will occasionally protrude a shoot through the 
middle of a flower, leaving the circle of petals behind. All double 
flowers are similar productions, of which the proliferous Hen-and- 
Chicken Daisy is a remarkable exemplification. 
As we have double or monstrous flowers, so we have double fruit; 
such as a large and a smaller pear growing on the same footstalk, 
double cherries, double plums, &c.; double leaves, double stems, and 
many other irregularities in the growth of highly cultivated plants. 
Other deformities are visible on the trunks of trees, like vast warts 
or wens, which keep increasing with the annual growth till they become 
