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gr. to W. P. N. Norton, Esq., of* Elton Manor, near Nottingham, in 

 very fine condition. The fruit is very large, ovate, angular, and 

 frequently cristate, but rarely flat, or wedge-shaped ; seeds rather 

 large and deeply imbedded ; colour very dark, becoming deep mulberry 

 when fully matured ; flesh red throughout, solid, firm, and juicy ; 

 flavour very rich and fine when quite ripe, apparently near in affinity 

 to Sir Harry, on which it was considered an improvement. Particular 

 notice was taken of its firm and solid qualities, which augured well for 

 its powers of enduring package and carriage. The above dish afforded 

 good evidence of this, as the fruit itself was firm, plump, and uninjured, 

 although it had travelled from Nottinghamshire ; and, in consequence, 

 the footstalks and calices were dry and withered. It was reported to 

 be a great cropper, next in earliness to Cuthill's Black Prince, and 

 some days earlier than Keens' Seedling. 



July 7- — Mr. Hogg in the chair. An interesting dish of Double- 

 day's No. 3, or Crimson Queen (Myatt), was exhibited by Mr. Turner, 

 to show its qualities as a late Strawberry. The fruit was even finer 

 'than those in the collection last meeting; but the meeting did not 

 attribute to it a higher place amongst mid-season varieties than would 

 accrue to it from the opinion above expressed ; its continuing to produce 

 large fruit later than other kinds may be a point in its favour, but this 

 will be more satisfactorily seen a fortnight hence. 



PALACE OF THE PEOPLE, MUSWELL HILL. 



On Saturday July 16, the inauguration of a site for the proposed 

 Palace of the People, was performed by Lord Brougham, in presence of 

 a numerous company, comprising the patrons and patronesses of the 

 proposed institution. 



We have before noticed in our pages this proposed institution, 

 designed for the purpose of supplying to the inhabitants of the northern 

 parts of the great metropolis the same amount of physical recreation 

 and intellectual improvement as the Crystal Palace affords to the south 

 of London ; and we are glad to learn that the Palace of the People is 

 projected in no spirit of opposition to the Sydenham Palace. Granted 

 that institutions like the Crystal Palace, founded on the most com- 

 prehensive basis for affording relaxation and instruction of a strictly 

 moral and intellectual character to the masses of population are 

 necessary* — and according to so high an authority as Lord Brougham 

 they are imperatively so — it then becomes a question how far two 

 grand institutions, having similar objects in view, may best conduce to 

 the desired object, without injury to themselves ; and we hope that 

 nothing but the most liberal feeling towards each other will exist 

 between them. It will not in fact be a case of Crystal Palace v. 

 Palace of the People, but instruction, enjoyment, and physical recrea- 

 tion, obtained in the midst of beautiful objects and scenery, and the 

 attractions (such as they are) of Tavern, tea-gardens, and less 

 questionable places of resort in the suburbs of London. The growing 



