The Sun.
London, England, 1837-04-03 00:00:00

GRAND EXHIBITION AT GHENT.

(From the Gardener's Gazette.)
The fete to commemorate the inauguration of the new
real for the exposition of plants, named the Cassino, took
itace on the 10th inst. ; and, perhaps, in the annals of be-
ta,/ and floriculture never was an exposition so worthy the
atf .ention of an amateur as the 56th. The judges assembled
oil the 10th were all strangers to the town of Ghent, in
or der to insure as impartial a decision as possible ; their
=lmes, after the alphabetical order of the towns from whence

tlEey came, were as follows :
Alost—Messrs. Boone and Nooy.
Antwerp —Messrs. De Caters, De Wolf, De Knyff, Par.
• theou De Von, and Dr. Somme.
Bruxelles—The Duke D'Ursell, Messrs. Rcinders, and
Van der Maolen.
Courtrai--Messrs. Callewaert and Landas.
Douai—Mr. Taffin.
Enghein—Mr. Parrnontier.
Frankfort-on-Main—Mr. Rinz, jun.
Liege--Messrs. Makay and Mogen.
Lille—Mossrs. Lestiboudois, and Miel'cz aid SIT. at.
London—Mr. Hugh Lowe.
Louvain—Messrs. Donkelaer Dudekin, and the Viscount
de Schrymaekar de Dorms .el.
Paris--Messrs. Abbe Belles(; and Poiteau.
Tournay—Sir Henry Oakes , Baronet.
Vienna—Mr. Rosenthal], je
A slight glance at the ab, ove names, will serve to show
the great mass of botanie.t.Al knowledge assembled on the
occasion. In addition to the above named judges, a com-
mission of four other gentlemen—Messrs. Buck Van der
tieesch, Verschoffelt, Ff.oop, and Maddison, were charged
by the society to do the h onours of the salon, and deputed
to give the necessary explanations concerning the plants to
the judges, but being real .dents, had no vote. When one of
the judges tried for the prize, as it happened often during
the judgment, he also could not give a vote for his own
plant or collection. Tv renty-nine judges answered to their
srimes ; and in a salon of 314 ft. long, along which 5,300
plants were arranged in their respective collections, the
judgment took place— and on the I-2thinst., surrounded on
all sides by flowers ar plants, with a band of music con-
cealed under the stern I e of flowers, 320 persons sat down to
table, to dinner. Mr. Van Crombrugge presided, and the
most perfect cordialit y and harmony reigned during the
evening, throughout w iiich, champagne, flowed like water,
and many toasts were, given ; two, to the health of the
Duke d'Ursel, and to our worthy President, met with uni-
versal acclamations.
In the morning of • the 12th, the distribution of prizes
took place in the gree it rotunda
,of the University, in the
Fresence of all the fa shionable world, when each successful
candidate received' his; medal from the hands of the Presi-
dent, and were receix red with acclamations by a gratified
rublic, to whom a Floricultural exhibition affords always
much pleasure in the- capital of Flanders.
Amongst the collri;tions of plants sent to the exposi-
tion, the three colic ctions of Mr. Van der Maelen, of
Bruxelles, consisting of 214 plants, sent from Bruxelles
by means of two immesise waggons, deserves particular no-
tice, as arriving with 'tittle or no damage, and as uniting
some of the scarcest and most valuable plants in exist-
ence. His colleetior, of plants in flower were magnifi-
cent ; his orchidm wi me the first of the kind ever seen at
r winter exposition, being for the most part in flower,
and his Lwlia anceps, Neottia spec nova, just arrived
fom Brazil, the rssicidium, pictum, and ampliatum, at-
ti acted the regards of the judges, as bring plants of a fu-
r erior kind ; and his collection of Cacti Were extremely
to be admired. T'ae Botanical Society at Antwerp, sent
a beautiful collection of Camellias in flower, and were re-
warded with a gold medal. The collection of Mr. Meek-
lynk, one of our oldest and most indefatigable amateurs, at-
tracted universal attention, and received the unanimous
votes of the judges for a gold medal. An enkianthus
quinqueflora, of five feet in hight, and cuamibile, an epi-
frnedium grandiflorum, with 150 flowers, Brassia laceana,
ijygopetalum makai, with two stalks-of flowers, Camellia
Campbelli and Atidsersoni, amar)ilis Mecklynkii, and Rho-
dodendron Meeklynkii, were amongst the' plants sent by this
eistinguished amateur. Amongst the plants difficult to
force, the peeania officiomlis fore rubro, in".flover, was very
remarkable, and, from its difficulty, in the opinion of many,
merited a prize in preference to the lilium croceurn, to
which the prize was given. ,
In the 'collection a Camellias belonging to Mr. De
Ryuck, a Reticulate, five feet high, having eight flowers
open, the Lactic, the. Wadie, and the Delicatissirna, of six
Let height, were remarkebie. This collection, consisting
of 330 Carnelian in flower, was the most beautiful sight
possible, both for the size of the plant and for the Coup
tt'cel which it ofered. The collection of Mr. D'Hane de
l'otter, consisting also of nearly 200 'Camellias in flower,
cad amongst which the following plants :—Tricolor of Van
tsieboll, L'o,;llolettca, and the Trinmphans, attracted the
uttenttoll or all amateurs. These two collections .being
nearly of equal merit, the Judges unanimously decreed a
medal to each.
A superb eollsction of rare plants, sent by Mr. Alexan-
asr Ver.5.1:1ff...b, of Ghent, gained a gold medal ; amongst
v-tich there were to be rernarkca, the Camellias, Grand
rrederick, Floy, Azalea indica ignesa. A
.eorection of plants was also sent by Messrs. Booth, of
trnburgh ; anti- on a small table with a suitable inscrip-
t wer placed the fie, simile of the 45 plants which
figured at the first exposition which ever took place at
Ghent, during the year. ISO 9 ; the idea was happy,
a,lrving to point out the progress which floriculture has
made since that period. In fact, the town of Ghent
Jas made gigantic strides in floriculture, and, now that
our new local is completed, it is to be expected that
more exhibitions will take place. The causes for the
great advances which Ghent has made, and is still mak-
ing, arise from the aristocracy not being above sell-
ing, exchanging, and buying themselves flowers ; and
rlso hi mixing at public dinners with the -commercial,
gardesers. Nothing could be more agreeable and praise-
worthy than to see some of the- richest and proudest
indtviduars on the continent partaking of a dinner with the
humblest Ghent gardener ; and if this system could be fol-
lowed in England, floriculture would be the gainer by

t sere is no reason why this should not be ; -if our aristo-
cracy are not ashamed on a race-course to bet and to re-
clive money from the greatest blacklegi in existence, why
shotld they obj,,ct to associate with individuals whose pur-
suits arc harmless, and whose ir-acliral botanical Ipow-
I..dge, would benefit them much more than listening to
many learned professors, whose only knowledge of botany
it derived from books, a id whose theory when brought to
I).2ar upon agriculture or gardening, would turn out a com-
plete Exiture.
Ghent, March 22, 1937.

W. MADDISON.

THE EDGEWARE-ROAD MURDER.

The defence made by the prisoner Greenacre regarding
the accidental death of Mrs. Brown, brings to the recollec-
t ()n the case of Theodore Gardelle, who, about the year
1790, was tried and executed for the murder of the land-
lady of the house in which he resided in Leicester-street,
Leicester-square. The accused resided in an attic, and,
nn the morning of the death of the female, as appears from
his subsequent confession and defence, she went up stairs
to his roJrn, when he desired her to send her servant for
tome snuff to the Haymarket. On her refusal, angry
words ensued, and he stated that, having gently pushed
her, she fell down stairs backwards, when, being greatly
alarmed, he wont to her assistance, and found her dead.
Being alone in the house, and fearful of being accused of
her murder, he resolved upon secreting, her, and for this
purpose took her body up to his room, informing the servant
on her return that her mistress had left the house suddenly,
and gone out of town on an emergency. At his leisure he cut
up the body into separate portions, which he deposited in his
boxes and the loft of the house, intending to take them
away separately, in order the more easily to escape detec-
tion. The friends of the landlady at length became alarmed
at her prolonged absence ; but although every inquiry was
made, nothing was elicited to attach suspicion to Gardelle
until the attention of the parties was drawn to a strong
smell issuing from the attic in his occupation, on searching
which they found different portions of the 'mutilated body
in an advanced state of decomposition. The unhappy man
was taken into custody, when he made a full confession of
thl above particulars, but denied' his guilt of her murder.
The facts of her death through his instrumentality being,
however, clearly proved, he shortly after suffered the ex-
treme penalty of the law at Tyburn, affirming his innocence
of intending her death unto the last.

, There seem to be now three Liberal candidates for
the representation of Knaresborough, viz., Mr. Rich, who has
t rice contested the borough ; the Hon. Charles Langdale
(brother of Lord Stourtcn and Sir Edward Vavasour), whose
own authority we bare for stating that he is a candidate ; and
Mr. Massey Hutchinson, a gentleman from London, formerly
at the bar. It is earnestly to be hoped that one of these can-
didates will quit the field, otherwise the return of one Tory
candidate, and possibly of two, will be certain. We cannot
pretend to say which of the candidates ought to retire, as we
bar conflicting statements on the point of the order in which
ttley offered themselves.—Leeds Mercury-

Mr. Gully has issued an address to his constituents
of Pontefract, during the past week, wherein he expresses his
resolution to resign the honour of representing that ancient
borough.—Leeds Mercury.

Sir W. Molesworth is in his 27th year, and sue-
c'eded his father, Sir Aiscott, and seventh Baronet, Dec. 30,
1323. The family of Molesworth anciently resided in the
counties of Northampton and Bedford, where they flourished
in the reigns of Edward I. and 11. Sir Walter de Molesworth
attended King Edward 1., in his expedition to the Holy Land,
and was Sheriff of Beds and Bucks; his descendants were of
great note and considration, and at length the dignity of Ba-
ronet was conferred on two branches of the family, nearly at
the same time, both of these being zealous in favour of the re-
volution.