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Lyca caste Skinneri with two buds on it. It had only| George's, Bloomsbury. It consisted of a history of the | Among plants grown by the ‘London poor, the 555 poor, the chief 
e à anded from Guatemala a few days, bnt I was| | window gardening and clean and tidy room mo ovement, | favourites are said to be Balm, Lavende er, E 
told that it might be kept in a comparatively cool | originated. a year or two ago by his curate, the Rev. | Peppermint, Myrtle, Musk, Fuc chsias, Gerani ap 
library ege esi |S. H. Parkes, in the po or distr ict of Little. ca annuals. Ot ner plants, however, also receive atten 
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pipes, syringing, s teaming, &c. Tome had t length n Mr. Parkes’ dre ow Pret erra pe do well. windows and 
ales gear not even in my gr cdd the pleasure | been oenl w ith very great success The Virginian Creeper grows well in a large pot, te 
conveyed w eta s quite new to the sensés. * All women, ant d early all men, lore b and it| Convolvulus traiued by the windows Hs Py: 
Loc Reeve ‘Suton, tyr ne am was wonderful," Mr. Bayley said, ‘“ hoy uch affection giving | much plea asure to the infirm ard of 
. Flowe Plants.—In one passage of my for ‘them was infused into the children “ot p arents wh watched day after ¢ df pi a MIN 
dionti o on Ferns published y" p. 508, I find a general he occupation was len stated. to appe ar. Minor we e grown in a pot a the top 
remark whicb, in the condensed form it was necessary have a spirit Ds PaA on those who followed t n a Beg? caused great amazement by the closing of 
to Lowy scarcely expr res es the meaning intended. I | “In a Jone room,” said Mr. Bit dye “at the top of o irginia Stocks 
has been mi istaken, so that | of the houses where every room was the A oF à M “Searle E unners flower well, Leek pl bya 
per! erha aps j u will allow me in a few words to put the family, iher re dwelt an aged. woman, whos sea nty woman in St. Giles’s s Workhouse on the Ist March in 
matter right. It is said tha aa the fronds of £ all t pot, when exhibited in Russell Square Gardens in Jul 
Ferns have a circinate vernation, and t ng | bar The visitor, Mr. Parkes, o observed, | was three feet high. A bes of potato planted d 
plants A ve pee young ped thus dis ith s ome | surprise, a Strawber y ore: wing and|pot greatly delighted 2n astonished a poor woman by 
term TRUE FERNS was used purposely to Pda flo our sis in a broken teapot "d the | growing into pota n little bunches in the earth? 
pares sine of which, e. 2 the ae window-sill. He remarked iow time to time how it| A ragged-school P pene from a eutting seven straw. 
are not circinate in vernation; and in Ba oid to | grew, and with h what was it was tended and watched. | berries, The horse-shoe Geranium thrives best in 
SONIA plants, the meaning was, “that none likely to | At length, one day, he said to this poor woman, * Your | towns, "te fancy kinds all fading fast or becomipg 
taken for Ferns have this kind of ver nation— | plant does well; y i th aph 
the pice occurring amongst the ems it? —‘It’s not for the sake of the fruit I do it,”| The Asis tant- ah ROE then performed some experi. 
order of Cycads. ro wel KAEA Te, ge Ise, replied the woman.— Then why do you take so much | ments intended to illustrate the effects of chloroform on 
sue pe A n Plan tatement made by care of it?" » Mes irto * Well, Sir; she di des EIE une nthe ta e were specimens of Mimosa 
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Manoal al (edition HAI p. 194), respecting leg but it?sa great com bes: to me'to n vethat living plant? plena, Diona muscipula, and one or two o 
nearly if not gute Fxtitpated D an! The first floral exhibition seem the mode in which the motions in thes 
LS erie ryman,” on the station pen the Sow | teristic one. It was held in one Bible Mission Rooms. Out plants ve place, adopting the views of M, Fée 
of Athol, is incorrect. I andowmpanited th e late Mr. raven PET Hi neben a month before, 94 were dis- oth ers, who hold ¢ É they originate in some neryous 
James Cunningham, of Comely Bank, the fivsbetinun ayed. n tis m 1 k 1 e plant puo or similar 
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he made to it, and I can affirm that it was not unduly Sor pots, cracked and antique, jugs with broken noses, We n ntio adl s0 experiments oí p f 7 
robbed; on the contrary hundreds of plants were left. | washing g- basins, and Ree? omestic vessels, served as| which forbade the idea of their being due either t 
1 can only attribute the extirpation of the plant in th H e decked in in gaudy scraps of paper- | electricity, or light, or heat, or auy external influence, 
station just named, to the constant raids made on it by | han nging. The terme of admission were—exhibitors, | and enu Mg a facts which seemed to point to the 
botanists and collectors s, in TUE nce o of th he publicity free; adults, o ne penny; children, one halfpenny. possess of | some nervous power by the bue). 
poena ie it hei our various Briti wo pounds were taken at the door for admissions ; and 
this sum made the scheme self-supporting, payi 1l ts w > of A and the experiments xx 
ee Hieultura al Plagiarism.—Any one conversant Mad expenses. prizes ranged from ls. 6d. t this. Ha eee 
the hornet iteratare of the day cannot fail to | 5s. Encouraged by the success of n "es plant | to tie acd of m A 
remarked th d the xt, in the at year, was made removing it from the vessel, it aad à Tost its 
comparatively grand affair, Russell Squire on irritability, He then attempted to restore it by 
en for the first boss opened to the Pins exposiag the plant to the influence of nitrous iid 
Co Stre au hin g gas. 
4 for Feci Geraniums, and annua ls The V oeirüian then drew attention to some 
ibitors were admitted free to the Square, along | ihe: by Mr. Fuge. of E ide and 
ersons who paid 1s. entrance. After six in the wo fine specimens of I 
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albarhtiane prenne ther his own, probably | was free to enter the square gardens. Lord Shaftes- | Gunnera scabra was also exhibited to the meeting. 
litely abusing A. (i * culi from whom  he|bury gave away the prizes, before an audience of ; 
pee ip Ld pe Me as a foil to erret This, | 2000 persons. Not a flower-bed was trodden, not a 
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plod oF Plagiarists; I 1 E designate Class 1. Again: P aged th through the inclosure for a penny a ax: ES Potires of 3o0k. - E: in 
C. is a clever practical horticulturist, who never puly aet said Mr. Bayley, of the prese of $ Po.79. B y; 
writes; D. Mol aoth of horticulture, although | great a crowd being there, 3 was a little Wratouddg of The Battle of the Standards, $vo. t6 5 her 4 
he writes constantly on the subject. Living near to the eive . This first s in the square- therefor Taylor. 1864. » and con n 
C. he Mog Ris him constantly and “draws” or ge d proved in all respects highly | suecessful. dei v wre pity td ayo this Mr written E 
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is a wonderfully clever man. mes bere and ta talbs place on July 18. Prizes are offered as follows :— | pore feiportgis, dh ald "bé menm by 
to me by the hose, and the P paper I take up I find | Crass I.—Persons living in the Little Coram Street District, | duction of a text of Seri ture, totally inap| 
my very words to him recorded in his iE «i Crass Il.—Person g in ot vei ode of the wegen | the — and grotesquely y commented upon, m 
a memory he must have!” This is Class Crass III.—Domes: aie S Servante, . Bayley were | fashio * that the people who maintain a pi 
deeper lot than either of these is in work. E d t inr sem das Sim gardener =). Kaaka ae | and just Mets and a perfec and just m 
i three different circles, practising the arts of B. and sson tne foon Prizes Srd Prize. | expect lengthened days in t mii ; 
and is tolerated in each on account of his supposed Fuchsias .. 10s. Od. = 0d. =f 6d. “thein 
an in nee others. A friend remarked to me at moe c —— H n " who iced k the sam 
a scientific soirée the other evening, " E. is a great » Ir s n capacity, an , from the earliest 
horticultural writer.” “Pardon me,” I replied, voit Cee I Obr in lion Ina Sunday J Parochial | lene in : ct, md v enjoyed a long eher 
mean a great —— writer.” “Oh no!” rejoined he To the ators | [hs the following pras : Lbe given :— ries of peaceful governm ente" Apart ey 
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“Theg to undeceive ou ie e rely knows mgd | 2nd; Prize. we ier . | arrant bosh, there is a good deal of curious 
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‘the mere reader, = Prize. ae Prize. —— -— Herschel's reasons for * 
his guard, and] 1. Poa Od. “a. of Egypt we with 
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me hief they do | Gerahinms 7 6 d E P P 1 $^ keep our ed English measures, or adopt the - 
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horti iioii ical observations, ich see 
ofa better a. -}-Bxhibitors under Classes ae Se T from the fact, that six out of the nine p) 
MM names and names Gizeh have narrow passages 
by “means Committee recently numbers of the emu nee: e M m ite porte miro aba angles to to the 
aponte iat M Horticultural Society. Tf fairly tate shal shall allowed to $ coma; ie Hoke Classes, | so that at the bottom of every one O d 
(2.) may di: registered at Bloomsbury Vestry any Hë then Pole Star must have been visible 2 
morning between the hours of y* pin 10 and 12; ant culm mination: 
entm" 12, Little Coram Street, during th xt, Mr. Ti ments ofthe 
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3).—The Registered Plants must the parish, and | Pyramid aeo vations, English rm 
emer Dru et meam Qs Shag LO x s th hee 
7 p are brought into wonderful harmony 
ku e inb zd er ofthe Clase ta which the a rid ym observations of Colonel Howard Vyse, who 
(5.)—No Gardener or Flower Dealer may co aput: a casing of black marble, or what we ©) à 
peer 7 "hos 5 Mr. Ba; proe that this "bici he ha de tered about | swinestone, which once covered the ee nam 
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degree, and fen the shams aid Sb» of hor tanis 
will be consigned to a merited oblivion, Hortus Si cous. 
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eom Cometa agen Sane “en d required time in the grow — 1 m ms and furt € at an EE 
ELE Gordon, | to prevent fraud, at LA however, there was s the 500,000,000th part of the s diameter 
e E nec to rius or no attempt, Mr. n Be said that this wae it admit to be a eer ently POET 
si md Aim plan «pi fae, passed Fou or 0 ur base, Sir John Hersch) St 
e on Ja —— e EM A * s of sealing yos This [s m ; > Renata c modulus ees Lr. made by the 
M e or si except annuals, in ling with | of & (P our p - 
» Rector of St. poi there des yet iina Mitto difficulty TS Further, in the King’s chamber of t iiie Gent 
