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HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
The sheaves then to be carried together by all hands, as expeditiously 
as the nature of the case may require, to be placed in a round circle, 
leaving room within the circle for the small rick or stack to be built, 
which is to contain about a wagon or cart-load; this is to be regulated 
according to circumstances, as to the bulk of the crop, and length of the 
sheaf. The rick to be built in the same way as a small one would be 
in the stack-yard, by going round on the knee, keeping the crop of the 
sheaf well up under the knee, in the middle, rather above, or higher, 
than the butt. The small sheaves to be put aside till the largest are 
stacked, as the small ones can be easier brought up to a point, and will 
prevent the rick or stack from becoming top-heavy. The topping-sheaf 
is banded rather nearer the butt than the others, and is inverted over 
the top to be fastened down ; thus a roof is formed like the thatch of a 
bee-hive, which effectually shoots off the rain, and although the top- 
sheaves are exposed, by their pendulous situation, in which every grain 
is preserved from the wet by its own individual husk, they are thus 
preserved from receiving injury to a great extent. Should these few 
hints be found useful at a future untoward season, the writer will be 
amply paid by its adoption. A little practice, with a handy farming 
man, will soon remove all the difficulties, and the wheat-grower will be 
amply remunerated for his perseverance .—Morning Post , Sept. 3, 1834. 
Horticultural Society of London. —The third exhibition of 
choice specimens of flowers and fruit, for various medals given by the 
Society, took place on Saturday afternoon (the 4th inst.), in the garden 
at Chiswick. As it was announced to be the last exhibition of the 
present season, and the day was exceedingly propitious, between four 
and five thousand persons of rank and fashion assembled. Among the 
company, we noticed the Duke of Cambridge, the Earl of Mansfield, 
Lords Downes, Farnham, Dartmouth, Feversham, and Strathaven, 
Admirals Lambert and Southeron, Baron Gurney, General Phipps, 
the Russian and French Ambassadors, the Bavarian Minister; Sirs 
Charles Cockerell, R. H. Vivian, Felix Booth, Charles Morgan, Moore 
Disney, Charles Monck, W. B. Proctor, Charles Lemon. An immense 
assemblage of ladies of distinction also honoured the Society by their 
presence, and gave additional lustre to the delightfully animated scene. 
The Coldstream and Grenadier bands, with that of the Royal Blues, 
were stationed in various parts of the garden, and throughout the after¬ 
noon played many popular pieces of music. The exhibition, as usual, 
took place under extensive tents, in the southern part of the grounds. 
The show, as a whole, was certainly not equal to the last exhibition ; 
but there were numerous specimens of both flowers and fruit which 
could not fail to excite general attention and admiration. The Thun- 
