Genre:

Reportage, Spoof

Subjects:

Horticulture, Exhibitions, Botany

    Reports that Mr Solomon Levi exhibited some specimens of Cuba inodorifera and established that the plants are connected by a 'cell'. Reports the award of the 'Victoria medal' to a Mrs Tickall for her 'fine bunches of grapes', and Mr Figgin's exhibition of some 'Rhizanthaceous plants [...] developed by a peculiar process of pruning, from the roots of turnips'.