54 THE FLOWER GARDEN. 



the jostling than the amalgamation of ranks that is 

 seen here. If we wished to show an " intelligent 

 foreigner" what e very-day England really is what 

 we mean by the middle classes what by the wealth, 

 the power, the beauty of the gentry of England 

 what by the courtesy and real unaffectedness of our 

 nobility we would take him on a horticultural fete- 

 day to see the string of well-ordered carriages and 

 well-filled omnibuses, the fly, the hackney, and the 

 glass-coach taking up their position with the britzcha, 

 the barouche, and the landau, in one unbroken line 

 from Hyde Park Corner to Turnham Green bid 

 him look at the good-humoured faces of those who 

 filled them, and say whether any other country in 

 the world could, or ever would, turn out a like popu- 

 lation. Sir Kobert Peel need not fear the return to 

 be made to his property-tax, if he will cast his eye 

 on the Windsor road about three o'clock on the first 

 fine Saturday of May or June. Last year more than 

 22,000 persons visited these exhibitions ; and from 

 the way in which they have commenced this year, 

 there is no reason to apprehend any falling off of 

 numbers. We rejoice in this ; and trust that the 

 same good arrangements will be continued, that the 

 interest may be kept up in the only meeting where 

 our artificial system tolerates the assemblage of every 

 rank and class upon an equal footing. 



The formal style which we have already advo- 

 cated for the private garden seems even much more 

 adapted to the public one ; and that there are many 

 neglected features in the Old English style which 



