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We now walked a long distance through the most stately avenues, till 
we came to 
The Petit Trianon, 
Where there was nothing very remarkable excepting the blaze of beauty 
produced by the great number of Salvia fulgens, which are used there. 
This is a plant always bright and beautiful, but here it was brilliant 
beyond description. We pursued our way to 
The Grand Trianon, 
Where the display of Dahlias was quite as admirable as the Salvias 
just mentioned. 
Indeed, the superior brilliancy of aU the flowers here strikes an 
Englishman very forcibly, and forms one of the most striking proofs of 
the climate of France being superior to that of this country. On my 
way home I called at the nursery of M. Truffaut, at Versailles. This 
gentleman is renowned for the great improvement he has made on the 
dowers of the China Aster. He has a nice establishment, most notice¬ 
able for his plan of planting out Camellias and Indian Azaleas in span- 
roofed houses to make specimens rapidly. This seems to answer 
perfectly. I also saw the nursery of Thebaud and Keteleer, a large 
and well managed establishment. 
On another occasion I went to 
St. Cloud, 
A palace of the Emperor, situated charmingly in a grove of fine 
Chesnuts (almost the only really fine trees I saw, except the Oaks at 
Fontainbleau). It commands from a terrace walk a fine view of Paris. 
It is a nice quiet secluded place, full of green vistas, but the gardening 
deserves not a passing remark. In going to St. Cloud we crossed a 
beautiful reach of the Seine. 
At Neuilly is the nursery of M. Le Michez, who has a fine collection 
of Camellias in a large curvilinear house, which he calls a Jardin d’hiver. 
In it is a futile attempt at the picturesque; a crooked brook writhes 
to the house in the most agonising forms. 
Henry Bailey. 
THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY’S EXHIBITION. 
Notwithstanding the opinion we have heard expressed within 
the last eighteen months that Chiswick and its exhibitions were dead— 
or, if not altogether so, in that moribund state that success was next to 
impossible if exhibitions were attempted, we have now the great fact 
to record, that not only have they been revived, but that the experiment 
has proved eminently successful; and that, confessedly, the best exhi¬ 
bition in many respects seen for years—if ever seen at all—was that 
witnessed at the Society’s Gardens, on the 3rd and 4th of June last. 
It was argued by those in favour of the abandonment of Chiswick and 
its exhibitions, that the Gardens were too far from town j independent 
of which, it was said that the monster horticultural fetes of the Crystal 
Palace Company, with their attractive building and grounds, and (to 
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