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the woods. Match-sticks, or wood prepared for lucifer-matches, of good 

 quality, are shown by Heidenreich, a manufacturer of Affolterbach, in 

 the Grand Duchy of Hesse ; and toothpicks of great excellence, made of 

 the Spindle-tree wood (Euonymus Europoms), are exhibited by Carl Wol- 

 fert, of Dresden ; there are four kinds, with the prices attached. No. 6 

 is 2s. per 1,000 ; No. 7| is 3s. per 1,000 ; No. 10, 4s. per 1,000 ; and No. 

 15, 4s. 6d. per 1,000. This manufacture is said to employ large numbers 

 of the peasantry during the winter evenings. Wilhelm Geyer, of Plauen, 

 Saxony, has shown a large assortment of carved picture-frames and fancy 

 boxes, which, as very cheap manufactures, are worthy of notice ; and a 

 large collection of very well made shoe-lasts and boot-trees are exhibited 

 by C. Behrens, of Alfeld, in Hanover ; the last range in price from 

 2s. 3d. to lis. 6d. per dozen. 



Several exhibitors have sent wicker-work in great variety, chiefly in 

 the shape of ornamental chairs, perambulators, &c. The principal are — 

 Samuel Zinn and Co., of Red-witz, in Upper Franconia ; Walter, Ernst, 

 and Son, basket-makers to the Court, Brunswick ; F. Fuhrberg, Berlin ; 

 Auguste Herbst, Bonn ; Johann Friedrich Reichardt, Erfurt ; Herrmann 

 Winckler, of Berlin ; and Oscar Merz, jun., of Dresden. All of them 

 display more or less of taste as well as good workmanship. 



Of manufactured corks, one exhibitor, B. H. Lurssen, of Delmenhorst, 

 in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, makes a large display ; he shows 

 sixteen sorts, all well made, and of excellent material, varying from 

 Is. lOd. to 60s. per 1,000. 



The Hanse Towns exhibit only wicker-work and walking-sticks in 

 this division. The wicker-work is in the form of chairs, tables, &c, and 

 is very good and tasteful. The principal exhibitors are Henning Ahrens> 

 of Hamburg ; C. Lampe, of Bremen ; and Meyer Brothers, of Hamburg. 

 The exhibition of walking-sticks, by H. C. Meyer, of Hamburg, is very 

 remarkable, both for its extent and the great variety and excellence of 

 the goods shown. 



France shows but little in this division, if we excej>t the admirable 

 collections of Vibmorin-Andrieux and Co., M. Leopold Java!, M. P. Cham- 

 brelent, and Dr. Eugene Robert. That of "Vilmorin and Co. contains a 

 most perfect series of forest woods, and many ol their applications are 

 also shown. Nothing can surpass the very admirable arrangement of 

 this collection ; the specimens are so prepared as to illustrate every 

 peculiarity of the material, and, besides the wood specimens, there are 

 collateral series showing the foliage and the fruits of the trees, all pre- 

 pared and named with the greatest care and scientific accuracy. This is 

 the only collection in the Exhibition which reminds us of the magnifi- 

 cent exhibition of similar products by Messrs. Lawson of Edinburgh, in 

 1851. 



The collection of M. Javal is a very remarkable one ; it is intended 

 to illustrate the extraordinary results which he has realised by a sys- 

 tematic cultivation of the previously barren district called the " Landes " 



