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forty quarts, and for these the sum of five hundred and fifty pounds is 

 asked ! One need not be surprised if raising of new Peas should be- 

 come pretty general — that is, supposing such prices can be realised. 



It has just been publicly stated that, by a simple arrangement of 

 fireclay plates, so managed as not to contract the capacity of the flue 

 at any single point, the gases, after being thoroughly intermixed, are, 

 at four successive stages in their progress through the flue, thrown in 

 thin streams against the surface of the boiler. No part of the gases 

 can escape this repeated forcible contact with the boiler ; and in the 

 process the heat they contain is so thoroughly extracted and absorbed, 

 that the result obtained, as proved by careful tests, is the evaporation 

 of nearly 12 lb. of water for every single pound of fuel, common boiler- 

 slack being used. This gives a large saving of fuel as compared with 

 the best modes of setting previously in use. The patentees guarantee 

 a saving of twenty-five per cent. The apparatus has the additional 

 advantage of being an effective smoke-consumer. The plan is appli- 

 cable to any class of boiler, can be applied without unseating boilers 

 already fixed, and the plates being of fireclay, the cost is so moderate 

 as to be very soon recouped by the saving of fuel. 



One of the most successful horticultural exhibitions held in the 

 north is that of the Grand Yorkshire Gala, which takes place at York 

 on the 15th, 16th, and 17th of June next. It is said to be one of 

 the very best provincial horticultural exhibitions, not even second to 

 the Manchester Whitsun Show. Some good money-prizes are offered 

 — among them, the Lord Mayor, the Sheriff, and other citizens of 

 York give the sum of £37, in four prizes of ,£15, .£10, £7, and £5, 

 for 15 distinct varieties of Roses, in pots not larger than 8 inches in 

 diameter. There is also a prize of £5 for the best seedling white Rose 

 in pot, unnamed, with the reservation that it is to be named by the 

 donor of the prize, Mr Thomas Lucy, Huntingdon, York. Messrs 

 Backhouse & Son, the well-known nurserymen of York, offer a 

 sum of £5, in two prizes, for 6 Palms distinct, suitable for table deco- 

 ration, in pots not exceeding 8 inches in diameter. There are many 

 other good prizes, and altogether the schedule is a very attractive one. 



In Mr Samuel Broome, the well-known gardener at the Inner Temple, 

 who died very suddenly from an attack of apoplexy on the morning of 

 Saturday the 22d of January last, horticulture loses one who had made 

 for himself a wide reputation as a cultivator of the Chrysanthemum. 

 The details of his life are somewhat scant, but, as far as they can be 

 gathered, it would appear that Mr Broome was a native of Staffordshire, 

 and was born in the year 1806, and commenced his professional career 

 by serving his apprenticeship in the gardens of the Earl of Bradford, in 

 that county. He came to London somewhere about the year 1832, 



