5 6
first flowered
in 1782.

_Cyprus 5 6
deciduus_, sown
in 1760

_Corylus
colurna_
(Constantinople 3 2
hazel), between
30 and 40 feet
high, bears
fruit, but
imperfect.

_Virginian
cedar_, (red)
sown in 1758 4 0

_Guilandina 2 1
dioica_, or
_bonduc_

_Juglans alba_,
or white
hickory. 3 1

_Lombardy_, or
_Po poplar_, a
cutting in 1766 10 0
near 100 feet
high.

_Poplar_, 8 6
planted in 1772

Another column headed 1845, carrying out this view, would be an
important addition to statistical observation.

Two agaves, or American aloes, flowered in Mr. Ord's greenhouse in the
summer of 1812, one of which was a beautiful striped variety. The plants
had been there since the year 1756. Amid all these delightful
associations, there is one melancholy event connected with the place. On
the night of the 9th September, 1807, a fire broke out in the
garden-house of Mr. Ord's residence (a cottage upon the site of the
present stables): the flame raged so furiously as to burn the principal
gardener, an old and valued servant, almost to ashes before any help
could be afforded to him. Upon the following Sunday (13th), the Rev.
John Owen, the then curate of Fulham, preached so effective a sermon upon
the uncertainty of the morrow, {145} that having printed a large
impression "without any loss to himself," a second edition appeared on
the 3rd of the following month.

In the second volume of the 'Transactions of the Horticultural Society,'
a beautifully-coloured representation of 'Ord's apple' may be found,
illustrative of Mr. Salisbury's communication respecting it, which was
read to the Society on the 17th of January, 1817. After acknowledging
his obligations to Mrs. Anne Simpson, the sister of Mrs. Ord, and who Mr.
Salisbury represents as "being as fond of gardening as her late
brother-in-law, Mr. Ord," it is stated that,--

"About forty years ago, the late John Ord, Esq. raised, in his garden
at _Purser's Cross_, near Fulham, an apple-tree from