HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The pedestals are instructive, showing, as they do, what may 

 be done with very plain and modest materials properly applied ; 

 and they harmonise well with the statues. The shaft is of red 



brick, and the base and capitals are of white Portland stone. 

 The jiedestals as well as the statues are due to H.E.H. the 

 Prince Consort, he having not only suggested the idea of the 

 pedestals, but corrected and modified their various proportions. 



In the centre of the Maze is placed a very pretty terra- 

 cotta statue of Galatea, presented to the Society by Messrs. 

 Minton & Co. 



A number of other interesting objects is to be seen in the 

 Garden. Among these may be specially mentioned the stem 

 with the leaves of a Talipot Palm, from Ceylon, which is at pre- 

 sent lying in the Western Milanese Arcade. This Palm (Coryplia 



