The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1865-10-03 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

SPORT IN THI GLOXINIA.—The Gardeners' Ckronicie says :—From time to time during the past two years we have seen more or leas perfect spec'mens of a curious sport in the Gloxinia, in which one or sometimes five wedge-like petals have been placed on the outside of the corolla, between it and the calyx. Specimens of this kind were exhibited at one of the recent meetings of the Floral Committee. The most complete account of these &inviter flowers that we rave seen is contained in a paper of Prof. F., Morretea, in the 19th volume of the second series of the "Bulletin de l'Amidemie Royale de Belgique." From this account, it appears that the supplementary pieoes just alluded to are really members of a second imperfect flower, placed outside the original one, and partially adherent to it. Now, the outermost corolla, "catacorolla" as M. Morren terms it, alternates In position with the true one ; and whereas in the original blossom it is the inner surface that is brightly coloured, in the supplementary one, on the contrary, the inner side is of a pale colour, while the exterior is tinted with bright carmine. These "moss" have been obtained by removing all the ordinarily shaped flowers, I and insuring the due fertilisation of those whi I presented the deviations above mentioned, till at length In the fourth generation the rudimentary outlying petals have been combined into one simple-looking. though really complex catacorolla. This is trully one of the most extraordinary result, of the art of the cultivator that hai been put on record.  meta! Nexiss. IT is asserted that yellow fever has made ite appear. Ince at Swansea, and that Government have sent a medical oommissioner to inquire into the matter. DIRECT intelligence from New Zealand confirms the report that General Cameron h.s resigned the command of the troops in that colony. William Thompson, whose surrender was reported a mail or two ago, has petitioned , the Queen to send out • commission of inquiry. THE discussion as to the part which young Count Eulenburg took in the attack on poor Ott had been revived at Manchester in the form of • letter to the hzaminer an I Times, from a gentlemen who witnessed the affray. He defends the Count, and ins sts that it was impossible to tell by whom the fatal blow was stzuck.  A MONTH ago a man named O'Shaughnessy cut his wife's throat in Regent-street, Woutminater, and afterwards out his own throat. He has been in hospital over since. his wife having recovered from her wounds some time ago. O'Shaughneesy Was so nearly convalescent on Friday that he was brought up at the policeoonrt on • charge of attempting to murder his wife. He was committed for trial. A STRANGE story of Prussian police government in Posen is published. A little boy of nine was formally charged with having spoken slander of the Police President, and was arrested, brought before • police magistrate, threatened with incarceration and the stick if he did not confess., and treated general) as a mature culprit might be by a Turkish Cadi. The child's father has addressed • memorial on the subject to the Prussian Minister of the Interior.  THE Nzvr