INFLUENCE OF HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITIONS. 



tate nature so closely, as to render it difficult, in some specimens which wo have recently 

 seen, to tell whether they were real or not. 



Our object, however, in this paper, is not so much to point out the benefits accruing 

 from these exhibitions, as to call the attention of the managers of the exhibitions them- 

 selves, to the necessity of infusing a little more artistic effect into the arrangements of the 

 exhibition tents, for we feel convinced there is yet much room for improvement. Th 

 ^ exemplification of artistic arrangement was seen at the exhibitions of American plant 



