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they will make a bed, of 07ie plant of each, of all the kinds of 

 strawberries known, and leave it to itself, merely keeping 

 down weeds, at the end of five years, the predominating sorts 

 will be those we have already named. We are inclined to 

 think the committee jmiiped at the conchision of the 4th 

 proposition ; we certainly wish they had stated whether their 

 opinions were founded on actual experience. 



Accompanying the pamphlet is a paper, read before the 

 Society, by Mr. Longworth, on the grape and the strawberry, 

 and published by order of the Society. This we shall par- 

 ticularly notice in another number. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. Foreign Notices. 



ENGLAND. 



June exhibition of the London Horlirultural Society. — The second exhibi- 

 tion of the society for the present year was held on the 11th of June. The 

 show was one of the finest ever held, and the whole report would fill 10 or 

 15 pages. We cannot, however, omit recording that part of it which must 

 be interesting to every reader, particularly as showing to what perfection 

 the science of gardening has attained. The editor of the Chronicle has the 

 following remarks on the exhibition : — 



With respect to the exhibition itself, we may state that although the gay 

 azaleas of May were missed by every body, yet that the general effect 

 was as good at ever. The pelargoniums were in their glory. Orchids 

 were magnificent ; who, for instance, ever beheld such a bank of these 

 plants as was at that this time brought from Mr. Rucker's garden, among 

 which was an Aerides odoratum, to have produced which alone would have 

 made the reputation of any gardener. Then the fruit, which was so mea- 

 gre in May, did honor to the skill of English gardeners, and so the Pacha 

 seemed to think, although, from the remarks of a correspondent in another 

 column, it appears that the judges were of a different opinion. The heaths 

 were better than before, and a single plant of Erica ventricosa purpurea, 

 from the garden of Sir George Stanton, was as fine a thing in its way as 

 the Cyrtopod of the previous exhibition. Of such things as these we can 

 only say that high gardening can go no further. 



More novelties were present than before. The Royal Botanic Garden at 

 Kew sent the charming Torenia asiatica, whose indigo stained flowers 

 every body stopped to admire, although by some oversight it had not been 



