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serious and sober Horticultural e?-:! libit ion, for it is neither more 

 nor less than a Chloranthe (green flower) formed by an un- 

 natural alteration of the corolla to the condition of leaves, of 

 which we have examples in strawberries and potentillas which 

 are plants of the rose family. 



The beautiful tulips of Messrs. Eouillard & Tripet would be 

 worth a fortune if tulip mania was in fashion. The violets 

 (Pensees) of Mon. Vilmorin are very large, round, almost per- 

 fectly so, admirably colored, and in a word, such as Pensees 

 ought to be according to conventional fashion. The enormous 

 pseonies of M. Modeste, Guerin, and those still more beautiful 

 ones of M. Dufoy, (and to close this list) a specimen of the 

 Lilium Giganteum of Mr. Lemicher, a plant stocky, corpulent 

 (ventrue), leafy (feuillue), the thick stalk not above five feet 

 high, bears five or six enormous flowers of a greenish white 

 color; nothing curious or interesting about it, but size and singu- 

 larity. It must be agreed that in the age we live in, and in our 

 country, whatever is Bizarre (whimsical), strange or enormous 

 passes for something fine ! 



A more just interest attaches to the collection of trees in- 

 tended for useful as well as ornamental purposes, to be natural- 

 ized among us; and we look for the day when favored by an 

 intelligent government, the melancholy solitude of much of our 

 south-western provinces will be done away by new and beautiful 

 trees. The rapid communications now being established in France 

 will soon make an intimate connexion between all parts of the 

 empire, and the grand centre, Paris, with its Horticulture, 

 Arboriculture, &c., &c. 



We advise our readers to see the garden of the Exposition, 

 and judge for themselves; for the memory of it as one of the most 

 magnificent displays will be on the records of France. 



On the table to-day were models in plaster; first — of an 

 imported Southdown ewe, four years old, bred by Jonas Webb, 

 Esq., and presented by him to Jonatlian Thorne, as a perfect spe- 

 cimen of the breed; property of Samuel Thorne, of Thornedale, 

 Washington Hollow, Dutchess county, New-York. Also, another 

 of a Southdown, presented by Lewis G. Morris to the Institute; 

 the fleece, in 1854, being ten pounds and a half. 



A third was the prize Southdown ram, a Avinner at the Royal 

 Agricultural Society Show at Lewes, in 1853. Ered by Jonas 

 Webb, Esq., imported by Jonathan Thorne, and the property of Mr. 

 Thorne, of Thornedale, as above. These models are very valuable. 



