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people's route, passim: ruwily down to the Strand s*n.a 
through the City. 
The ocr:vdr;i of the Reform Bill riot in i B j ;■ when 
the windows were smashed in Apsley House, is well 
know nd from 1855 to 1866 Hyde Park witnessed 
many . Am lent demonstrations. The first occasion was 
in July 1855 against Lord Robert Grosvenor’s “ Sunday 
Trading Bill,” when some 150,000 people assembled, 
and various scenes of disturbance took place. More or 
less serious riots were of frequent occurrence, until they 
culminated in the Reform League riot in July 1866, 
he flower-beds 
Ag ve large, glaring 
C i \ing as possible, or minute 
irried out in carpet bedding. Now 
been considerably modified. The process of 
alteration lias been slow, and the differences in some cases 
subtle, but the old stiffness and crudeness has been 
banished w ever. The harmony of colours, and variety 
of plants used, are the principal features in the present 
bedding out. It . seems right that the Roy id 
should lead the way m originality and bcr.r ,y md 
undoubted success h frequently achieve, run, ugh 
even the style of to-day has its opponent 
objection from the more practical g^rdrnt w die 
