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the Regent's Park Garden, where, by diversifving the surface of the ground, and group- 

 ing the plants with considerable taste, a very effective tout ensenibh was produced. 



Seeing, then, that improvements are to be made, and Avith the fact before us that this 

 artistic arrangement of plants in plant-houses, is a matter of considerable interest among 

 persons of taste at the present time, we venture to recommend two stands for the exhibi- 

 tion of Orchids, from the design of H. Noel Humphreys, Esq.; and we venture further 

 to assert that if these stands were as tastefully filled, as the designs are appropriate, a 

 very pleasing and highly gratifying result would be achieved. The larger stand is sup- 

 posed to be executed in rustic work, stands four feet in height, to the first tier of plants, 

 and is proportionately large in circumference. The second stand is nearly of the same 

 dimensions, but to render it more artistic, and at the same time durable, it is executed in 

 rra cotta." These stands, tastefully filled and introduced into an Orchid-tent 

 rustic stand in the center, between the tables, and a terra cofta stand at each 



