. The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . on. It would be interesting to hear from thosewho live near ancient Hawthorns in other parts ofEngland, whether they find this peculiarity in thespecimens within their observation. The greaterdiameter of Hetbel old Thorn at five feet highthan at the ground level, observed by Mr. GuiGon,is caused by the spreading asunder of the involutedivisions in question. We rejoice to add that this relic of ancienttimes is still in good health, and carefully protectedfrom injury by a fence maintained by direction ofMr. Hudson Gurney. New Plants. 183. Gal
. The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . on. It would be interesting to hear from thosewho live near ancient Hawthorns in other parts ofEngland, whether they find this peculiarity in thespecimens within their observation. The greaterdiameter of Hetbel old Thorn at five feet highthan at the ground level, observed by Mr. GuiGon,is caused by the spreading asunder of the involutedivisions in question. We rejoice to add that this relic of ancienttimes is still in good health, and carefully protectedfrom injury by a fence maintained by direction ofMr. Hudson Gurney. New Plants. 183. Galeoxtia fimbriata. Linden Cat., alias Bate- mannia fimbriata, Linden and Rchh. one of his catalogues M. Linden published this plantunder the name we have here adopted. Subsequently inconjunction with M. Reichenbach he referred it to-Batemannia, Whatever may be hereafter the fate ofthe genus Galeottia, it can never be united with Bate-mannia, wtiich ought perhaps to merge in Maxillaria-Galeottia, with its great ribbed crest, two-winged columa,.. The Hethel named in the preceding remarks isfamous for something more than a Rose. HethelOld Thorn is one of our vegetable patriarchs, a stillliving witness perhaps of Roman conquest, Danishforays, and Druidical superstition. According totradition, it is mentioned as the old Thorn in adeed dated eailv in the 13th century ; and it isreported to be described in one of the Chroniclesas the mark for the meeting in an insurrection ofthe peasants in the reign of King John. We shouldbe much beholden to any antiquarian reader whocan point out the Chronicle in which this statementis to be found. That the tree is of very high antiquity cannot bedoubted. Jlr. Grigor, who described it with aninexact figure in his Eastern Arboretum in 1841,gives the following measurements :— At one footfrom the base of the trunk, twelve feet and an inchin circumference ; and at five feet high fourteenfeet and three inches ; while the circumference ofthe space
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