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_Fanny Kemble Tulip_.--This famous tulip which was sold a few weeks
since for £100. was raised by a Mr. Clarke, of Croydon, Surrey, lately
deceased. He was considered to have a first-rate show of tulips, and
spent much of his time in their cultivation; the remainder of the bed
was knocked down for £500. The above gentleman was an infatuated
admirer of Miss Kemble, and, as a token of his admiration he named his
favourite tulip after her. He was a man of the most eccentric habits:
though possessed of a competent fortune, he was continually harrassed
by the fear of coming to poverty--and so powerfully was he impressed
with the dread of being buried in a trance, that he ordered in his
will, two panes of glass to be introduced in his coffin lid, and that
he should be placed in the vault without being screwed down.