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when a more ostentatious display of hand-glasses and frames has 

 failed. A German named Fechner has recently published a book to 

 prove that plants are endowed with consciousness, and are susceptible 

 of impressions of pleasure. If he were writing this article, he might 

 say that ladies are successful in their simple modes of striking slips 

 and cuttings, because the subjects of their operations feel gratified 

 with their attentions, and disposed to reward them. 



The Bury, Luton. Henry Burgess. 



REVIEW. 



The Letters of Rustic us on the Natural History of Godalming. 

 Van Voorst, London. 



We have risen from a hasty perusal of this interesting work with 

 the full intention of taking it up again, and of more carefully read- 

 ing its contents in our intervals of leisure, for which it appears to us 

 admirably adapted, being both amusing and instructive. We hope 

 also to introduce it more fully to our readers by a few extracts bear- 

 ing upon gardening subjects, when we can find room for them. 



ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY'S EXHIBITION. 



The midsummer show of this society was held on the 20th ult. 

 The day preceding was very unpropitious, and led us to apprehend 

 an unfavourable morrow ; out the night was fine and tranquil, and 

 the day itself, during the time the visitors were present, was all that 

 could be desired. It is not a very easy matter to introduce in a novel 

 garb the subjects exhibited. The prizes offered are, with a few ex- 

 ceptions, for the same quantities of the same species ; let us there- 

 fore, in a word, say, that the whole formed a very fine exhibition. 



The Orchids, numerous and brilliant, filled one side of a long 

 tent ; whilst a beautiful bank of Pelargoniums occupied a similar 

 space on the opposite side — the whole presenting such a mass of 

 beauty, as to render it a difficult and slow process to examine the 

 plants, on account of the crowd of admirers which surrounded them. 

 We observed little that was novel ; but we must not pass over a 

 beautiful purple-flowered Cattleya from C. B. Warner, E*q., whose 

 specific name we did not learn. The next tent, filled with stove 

 and greenhouse plants, also found abundant admirers, as did that 

 in which the Queen of flowers appeared in all her glory and in 

 considerable abundance. Perhaps the most attractive portion of the 

 Roses was the boxes of cut blooms, and amongst them some new 

 varieties shone conspicuously. Exquisitely glowing and beautiful 

 was Geant des Batailles, the most handsome new crimson Hybrid Per- 

 petual Rose we have. Soleil d'Austerlitz was another of a similar co- 

 lour. Moss Rose Laneii, figured in our fifth Number, was also shewn 



