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the various classes, which filled five or six large tents. The, show of 

 fruit was extensive. Wall-fruit particularly good, notwithstanding its 

 scarcity in many places ; Pines only middling ; and some of the Black 

 Grapes were a little deficient in colour. A very numerous and fashion- 

 able company visited the Gardens on their being opened to the public ; 

 and in the afternoon crowds of visitors, brought by excursion trains 

 from the country, enjoyed to them the rare treat of witnessing a horti- 

 cultural show. 



REVIEWS. 



Priced Catalogue of Plants sold hy Wm. RolUsson & Sons, Tooting, 



near London. 1856. 

 The catalogue for the present year issued by this well-known and 

 esteemed firm is very carefully got up, and contains an extensive assort- 

 ment of general nursery stock not often met with. The lists of plants in 

 the different sections under which they are arranged contain the names of 

 nearly every plant worth growing, and where a selection is made, it is 

 judiciously done. New and rare plants form an important feature, 

 and are very coirectly described. 



Catalogue of Stove, Greenhouse, Hardy Exotic and British Ferns, 



grown for sale by Robert Sim, Nurseryman, Footscray, Kent. 

 Extremely well arranged, and the descriptions of each species clear, 

 comprehensive, and correct, so far as a hasty look over enabled us to 

 judge. The occasional hints on the best way of managing particular 

 kinds will be very valuable to young growers, to whose especial atten- 

 tion we must refer the author's judicious instructions on air and soil, 

 water and insects — to be found in the introductory page — as well as to 

 his remarks on Ferns grown in glass cases. 



The Field Newspaper. 

 We name this weekly paper in our review, for the purpose of adding 

 our testimony to the able manner in which our very old friend Mr. 

 Errington conducts the gardening department. We should, in truth, 

 have been disappointed were it not so, for Mr. Errington has been long 

 known to us as a first-rate practical gardener, as well as a theorist, and 

 who perhaps has done more than any other cultivator to effect a reform 

 in the cultivation of fruit trees. We wish him every success. 



GOSSIP. 

 We understand that Messrs. Waterer and Godfrey, of Knaphill, the 

 eminent growers of American plants, intend holding a grand exhibition 

 of that popular tribe of flowers at Manchester, next season, in connexion 

 with the Fine Arts Exhibition, which is already creating much interest 

 in the neighbourhood and manufacturing districts generally. 



