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as to produce thteir fruit in March or April; and by introducing 

 those into the ho use, from time to time, which are laid into tiie 

 space between ths two front walls, a succession of fruit will be 

 obtained the wholi* year. On the back wall are shelves for pots 

 of strawberry plan ts, of which Mr. Cowan informed us he had 

 several hundred the past winter, and from which he had an abun- 

 dance of fruit. In the pits were growing melon vines, which 

 were producing an abundance of fine melons. 



The crop of grapes and peaches in the graperies, green-house 

 and peacheries, is immense, and we never saw the vines in better 

 condition. None of the compartments were brought forward 

 very early this year, and, consequently, no ripe fruit has yet been 

 obtained. A few Frontignac grapes, in the green-house, were 

 beginning to ripen off. 



In the forcing ground the hot-beds and frames were filled with 

 cucumbers, melons, &c., in all stages of growth, from the young 

 plants to the mature vines. We had scarcely time, from our 

 hasty call, to walk lound the garden. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. Foreign Notices. 

 ENGLAND. 



Exhibitions of the Boyal Society and Central School of Horticulture 

 and Agriculture. — The sixth annual exhibition of this Society took [dace 

 on Sdiurday, March )7th, at the Egyptian Hall, and jiresented an as- 

 seinblajre of horticnltural productions hardly ever before equalled. 

 Among the curiosities, were our old acquaintance the Cycas revolQra, 

 which now shows its fruit very distinctly; a magnificent jjlant of Bank- 

 sia serrata, fourteen feet high, in bloom; and a most gigantic specimen 

 of Acacia decurrens, whose golden blossoms reached to the glass dome 

 of the building, twenty-two (!) feet high. These three botanical curi- 

 osities remained the whole week in view. Camellias in abimdance and 

 variety; a very beautiful show of orchidaceous ]>lants, collections of 

 stove and green-house specimens, cucumbers, French beans, asparagus, 

 monstrous cabbages, mushrooms, fruit, &.c. &.c. But the grand attrac- 

 tions were the baskets of flowers for Her Majesty. 



Tiie competitors for the gold med.il, were Mr. Dunsford, gardener to 

 Baron Dimsdale, Mr. Rogers of Battersea, Mr. Graves of Stratford, 

 and Mr. Upri^rht of Mordan. The gold medal was awarded to Mr. 

 Dunsford, and silver medals to the others. A large silver medal was 

 also awarded to Mrs. Marryatt, for a bouquet for the Queen, and it 



