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Mr. William Paul's lot the best was a pretty hybrid of the quercifolium race, with 

 small elegant rosy-pink flowers. The name of this is Little Gem, and it is well 

 named. Among the zonales from the same exhibitor, the best was St. George, the 

 leaf and growth like Punch, the flowers a fine deep crimson-scarlet. Messrs. E. G. 

 Henderson and Son sent a batch of tricolors, the most noticeable of which were 

 Spanish Beauty, quite in the style of Mrs. Pollock, but with brighter colours ; 

 Sophia Dumaresque, very neat growth, the leaves flat and nicely disposed, colouring 

 precise, sulphur margin, zone bronze overlaid with lively red, which occasionally 

 breaks in fine bars towards the margin, centre green ; Waverley, small leaves, very 

 bright rosy-red zone. From the same, Beauty of Oultou, a bold cinnamon zone 

 and fine scarlet flowers. From Messrs. F. and A. Smith, of Dulwich, Bronze 

 Shield, very broad rufous brown zone, sulphur-green centre, scarlet flowers ; King, 

 in the style of Bronze Shield ; Gipsy Queen, in the same style ; Mrs. Charles 

 Barry, a very fine cinnamon zone, heavily and sharply laid on ; full of character. 

 Better than all these was Mr. Hoyle's I'elargonium Alfred, the petals of the same 

 breadth and smoothness as in John Hoyle, top dark maroon, with sharp fiery- 

 red margin, lower petals rose, overlaid with lake veins, throat white ; a grand 

 flower. From the same, Victoria, top blackish-crimson, breaking into lake veins, 

 and lively red margin ; lower petals rich carmine, with faint touch of violet in the 

 throat ; this wants finish. From Mr. Bull, Selaginella Mertensii albo variegata, 

 patched with white variegation ; Machserum firmum, a fabaceous plant, not in 

 bloom, and nothing remarkable in leafage ; Miniulus duplex Brigiitness, a great 

 beauty, doubtless the very best of the showy duplex race ; better than all else in 

 Mr. Bull's lot was Abutilon ve.xillarum, which is of delicate twining habit, small 

 cordate acuminate leaves, flowers dull red with yellow limb, the appearance of the 

 plant very much like a large edition of Tropteolum tricolorum. 



International Exhibition, South Kensington, Mat 22 to 31. — This glorious 

 affair surpassed by many degrees the results anticipated by the most sanguine of 

 its promoters, and in every detail was successful both for the interests of horti- 

 culture and the gratification of public taste and curiosity. On the site of the 

 International Exhibition of 1862 a space more than three and a half acres in extent 

 was marked out and covered with canvas, and within this space the ground was 

 laid out in walks and terraces, in various levels, with turfed embankments, 

 rockeries, waterfalls, gorgeous flower-beds, and groups of evergreen trees, and 

 shrubs from the hardy hollies and pines to the costly and tender palms, tree ferns, 

 and other trees of tropical and subtropical regions. The total length of the tent 

 was 562 feet, the breadth 293. Added to this, there was a tent 560 feet long by 

 40 feet wide, appropriated to exotic orchids, this compartment being kept at a 

 suitable temperature by means of a new boiler invented by Mr. Ormson. Tlie area 

 of this tent was 400,000 cubic feet, the length of pipe heated 3200 feet, and the 

 quantity of water always in circulation 1760 gallons. All this was accomplished 

 by means of a comparatively small boiler and with a small consumption of fuel, 

 one of the notable points in the construction of the furnace bars being the 

 admission of air beneath the fire, and in such a way as to quickly disperse among 

 the burning fuel, so as to effect a complete oxidation. On the day of opening, the 

 Exhibition was visited by a party comprising their Royal Highnesses the Prince 

 and Princess of Wales, Prince Alfred, Princess Helena, the Duke and Duchess of 

 Cambridge, Princess Mary, Prince Teck, and other august personages. The 

 attendance on the first day, when the entrance fee was twenty-one shillings each 

 person, amounted to 10,000. Throughout the whole term of the Exhibition, 

 numbering in all ten days, the number of visitors reached about 150 000. 



A large proportion of the green furniture, i.e., the palms, ferns, and other 

 costly plants used to give relief to masses of flowers, were furnished from the Royal 

 Gardens at Kew. But in addition to these, Messrs. Veitch, Lee, W. Paul, Charles 

 Turner, Paul and Sons, Waterer and Godfrey, and other great cultivators, sent 

 collections of yews, hollies, coniferous trees, and miscellaneous shrubs, and in the 

 majority of cases these were planted in the ground in masses, to give effect to 

 flowering plants placed in front of them. The general arrangement consisted of 

 a series of compartments divided by broad walks, and all dipping towards the centre 

 where there was a circular bed of palms and ferns, the ground between surfaced with 

 the gorgeous colouring of Dracaena terminalis. On either side of this were two 

 great crescents faced with pelargoniums, making an extraordinary display of colour. 



