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dealer in artificial manures will make you up a mixture of the above 

 of the proper proportion for the extent of lawn ; this will greatly 

 improve the appearance of your lawn, by promoting a close thick 

 growth, without driving the Grasses too much ; and we strongly 

 recommend you to try this, if your Moss again gains on you. — Ed.] 



CRYSTAL PALACE EXHIBITION. 



The Company was favoured with fine weather for their second 

 show this season, which took place on Wednesday and Thursday, 

 the 25th and 26th ult. The arrangement of the plants this time 

 was somewhat different from that in May, and was, perhaps, the 

 best that could have been adopted under the circumstances ; still, 

 however, we feel compelled to adhere to our opinion that nothing 

 beats the open lawn and canvas tents for rendering a flower-show 

 effective and pleasing. As it was, however, the alteration was an 

 improvement, and on the first day upwards of 14,000 people visited 

 the budding. The display was chiefly confined to the principal transept, 

 along the sides and middle of which the plants were tastefully arranged, 

 and in the centre, so as to form an object at once grand and striking, 

 was a raised circular dais or clump quite 30 feet in diameter, surmounted 

 by an Araucaria, and surrounded with stove and greenhouse plants. 

 Here Mr. Collyer's noble specimens were exhibited to much advantage, 

 as well as those from other growers. On the two stages in the middle 

 were Orchids, Ferns, and Pitcher Plants, all of which, we need not say, 

 associate well together, and round the sides were variegated plants, 

 of which there were several charming collections; Azaleas, Pelargoniums, 

 Roses, and Heaths. 



The ends of the stages, at the four corners where the nave 

 crosses the transept, were rounded off in an architectural and 

 tasteful manner, by means of circular stagefuls of plants crowned with 

 different kinds of figures in statuary, which overtopping and looking 

 down, as it were, upon the plants, served to furnish variety, and set 

 the latter off to good advantage. The magnificent Orange trees, too, 

 with their lively green foliage, rearing their heads above the stages in 

 front of them, served to fill up the spaces between the top of the 

 plants and the lower gallery ; while above these, again, the gaiety was 

 maintained by the hanging baskets, about which there was a wild 

 beauty and luxuriance which was quite delightful. 



With respect to the exhibition, the names of the different plants 

 composing the great classes of which it was chiefly made up, having 

 been fully given in our report of the Royal Botanic show, which will 

 be found in another page, little more now remains for us to do than to 

 refer to the new things which were produced on this occasion. 



Though not in flower, Mr. Glendinning, of Chiswick, furnished some 

 interesting plants, among which were the new Larch called Abies 

 Ktempferi, to which we hope to allude more particularly by-and-by ; 

 a species of Rhanmus, from which the green dye of China was said to 

 be obtained ; and an Orange from the North of China, which was stated 



