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objects, or to present the several sides of 

 a plant case, if placed upon it, to the 

 light without the necessity of lifting. 

 The iron garden-seats, are, as the engrav- 

 ings show, admirable example of the same 



class of art-manufacture, and do credit to 

 the old-established and well-known house 

 of Dray and Co. [Price of table, 36s. ■ 

 garden-seats, 35s. and 40s. 



HORTICULTURE IN THE AUSTRALIAN COLONIES. 



Now that the horticulturists of the "old 

 country" are looking forward to the 

 annual chrysanthemum fetes, it may be 

 intei'esting, as exemplifying the progress of 

 horticulture in the opposite hemi rphere, to 

 make a note of the exhibition of the Hor- 

 ticultural Society of llobart Town, on the 

 7th of May last, a report of which in the 

 Iloharl Tote, i Daily Mercury, recently 

 came to hand. The season was late, and 

 the show of flowers was not quite up to 

 the mark, but fruits and esculents, the 

 products of the colony, were very fine, 

 and the judges declared they had never 

 seen finer apples and pears. In the list of 

 prizes occur the following pot plants : — 



1st, single specimen, Dipladenia urophylla 

 Mr. Hollinsdale ; 2nd, Amaryllis, Mr. 

 Chatterton ; 2nd, three chrysanthemums, 

 Mr-. Lipscombe ; 3rd, Euphorbia splen- 

 dens, Mr. Hollinsdale. Cut flowers : 1st, 

 12 dahlias, Mr. Naughton, jun. ; 2nd, 

 chrysanthemums, Mr. Lipscombe; 3rd, 

 Dianthus chinense, Mr. Haywood ; 3rd, 

 marigolds, Mr. Hollinsdale. In the awards 

 for fruits, Scarlet Nonpariel, Erench Crab, 

 Rhode Island, Greening, Winter Ribston, 

 and Court Rendu Plat apples, occur; 

 Easter Beurre, and Bergamot pears, 

 Keen's seedling strawberries ; and among 

 the vegetables, all the sorts which usually 

 figure at our summer and autiunn shows. 



