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Report on the Exhibition of Implements, 
The Society were under considerable obligations to certain 
seedsmen for their enterprise in utilising and embellishing the 
railway embankment which projected into the grounds, and 
would otherwise have been a very unsightly object. Foremost 
in this good work were Messrs. Carter and Co., of High 
Holborn, who occupied several hundred feet of ground with 
their grass seeds, similar to those used in Paris. Though only 
sown at the end of May, so rapid and uniform had been the 
growth, and so unremitting the attention, that the surface was 
entirely covered, and the appearance was that of a well 
established turf. The effect of these various plots of bright 
green, separated by well-arranged plants, was very striking, and 
reflected great credit upon the taste and enterprise of that 
world - renowned firm. Messrs. Little and Ballantyne, of 
Carlisle, a firm which have not hitherto been exhibitors at the 
Royal Shows, but were probably stimulated to exert themselves 
as conspicuously and successfully as they did by the desire to 
become better known to the habitues of the Shows before the 
Meeting of 1880 — when being at home they will doubtless 
make a great display — occupied a considerable space, and 
showed an admirable collection of coniferous plants, including 
most of the pine tribe worth growing in this country, whether 
for timber or ornament, from the elegant junipers and retino- 
sporas of China and Japan, to the gigantic pines, cypresses, and 
cedars of Himalaya and California. The arrangement was very 
good. In a series of circles and half-circles, each genus had 
its typical representative in the shape of a well-grown tree in 
the centre of the bed, whilst around it were grouped the species 
and varieties belonging to the family. The effect of this 
grouping, due care being exercised as to the variety of hue, was 
very striking as well as instructive. Golden yews, junipers, 
cypresses, arbor-vitae, and retinosporas, vied with each other in 
varied forms and hues, and made a very pretty display. One 
bed was devoted to miscellaneous plants of recent introduction, 
including the Osmanthus ulicifolia variegata, a holly-leaved 
shrub from Japan ; Coprisma bameana, a hardy variegated-leaved 
shrub ; a novel tricolour-beech ; a black-leaved oak and birch ; 
and the weeping Wellingtonia — all of which Messrs. Little and 
Ballantyne have been instrumental in introducing. They also, 
like Messrs. Carter and Co., had devoted a portion of the 
ground to grass seeds, which looked well. 
Messrs. Paul and Son, of Cheshunt, occupied a considerable 
space with artistically arranged beds of tricoloured geraniums, 
their brilliant foliage adding much to the effect. They had a 
varied and numerous collection of cedars and deodars, and splen- 
did cut roses, for which this firm have long enjoyed notoriety. 
