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been making for several weeks, in order to have suitable 
accommodation for the live stock, implements, machines, 
and products, which in a few days more will have, arrived 
from all parts of France and every other country in Europe. 
As I am not unacquainted with those editorial difficulties 
which often make the insertion of an article in a certain 
number a matter of impossibility, it may not be too much 
to say, that before these notes leave the press-room the 
great Exhibition in question, including that of the Horti¬ 
cultural Society, will have taken place, and the extent of its 
influence determined. Yet I cannot but think that most of 
your readers may be interested in learning what has been 
done on the part of France, and how her invitation has been 
accepted. 
The Industrial Palace is to be occupied chiefly with the 
implements, plants, and farm produce, together with live 
stock, as cows and oxen. What is called the grande nef of 
the Palais has been transformed by the managers of the 
Horticultural Society into an ornamental garden, which will 
form an agreeable promenade for the visitors. This part of 
the large building will be singularly beautiful and effective, 
as it has been arranged with much taste, and no exjrense 
will be spared to make a brilliant display. 
The bovines will be arranged in compartments, so as to 
admit of an easy inspection. These compartments are 
near the extremities of the Palais under the galleries, 
which will be occupied with implements and farm products. 
Numerous sheds and stalls have been erected outside the 
building, for the reception of sheep, pigs, and such of the 
larger cattle as cannot be accommodated inside. A great 
number of neat inclosures have been put up for the poultry, 
of which a grand turn out is expected. Upwards of a 
hundred cow's and oxen have been entered for England; 
Scotland has an entry of at least two hundred in the same 
class; and it is said that the Durham breeds, sent from the 
other side of the Tweed, are more numerous than those 
which have been entered for England. From Austria, 
Denmark, Belgium, and Saxony, will be sent many sorts 
and types which will be new to most of our breeders in the 
west. It is not improbable, however, that the famed 
English breeds, as the Durhams, Devons, and Herefords, 
together with those from the west Highlands and Ayrshire, 
will take the lead here, as they have done before. 
About four hundred head of sheep from England and 
Scotland have been entered. Move than 1,500 in all, it is 
expected, will be exhibited by the several countries. Fully 
2000 implements and machines will be shown, including 
fifty steam engines for different purposes. There will be 
fanning and reaping machines, but these, for obvious 
reasons, are not to be tested till the harvest. I understand 
that in this class there will be several new inventions which 
have not been shown before. Arrangements have been 
made by the government for testing and trying all the 
machines and implements of any importance. A large 
field has been allotted for this purpose. It is situated near 
the grounds of Neuilly on the banks of the Seine. 
Every effort has been made by the government to make 
this exhibition all that could be wished. The cattle will be 
fed at the expense of the State as long as the Exhibition 
lasts (about a fortnight). Whatever may be necessary, 
whether in men or materials, for trying the machines, will 
also be furnished in the same liberal manner. This Ex¬ 
hibition, according to the first announcement, was to open 
on the 2!)th of the month of May, but now 1 learn that it 
will be opened the day after to-morrow (the 23rd). The 
programme has just been posted. It is about eight feet 
long by three feet wide. The first class comprises all the 
best English, Scotch, and Irish breeds. It is stated that 
the show is to close on the 7th of June, but it may very 
probably last a week or ten days longer. I’. F. Keik. 
MELVILLE’S WHITE MAY BROCOLI. 
We have received from Mr. Melville, gardener to the Earl 
of Roseberry, Dalmeny Park, near Edinburgh, specimens 
of a remarkably fine late white Brocoli, which promises to 
be a valuable acquisition to our gardens. We all know the 
difficulty there is in finding, late in the season, Brocoli 
which is at once hardy and of a pure white colour. In the 
London markets we have had, during the spring, supplies 
of Brocoli from Cornwall, there being nothing to be had 
from the extensive garden grounds round the metropolis, 
except the old Brimstone or Portsmouth variety; and for 
the last month the supply from Cornwall has been com¬ 
pletely exhausted. The specimens we received from Mr. 
Melville, on the 10th of May, were large, each weighing, when 
trimmed ready for the pot, ljlbs.; they were perfectly white, 
and had all the appearance of Cauliflower, and when cooked 
were very tender, nicely flavoured, and eating as tender as 
Marrow. This appears to us to be totally distinct from any 
other variety which has come under our notice, and pos¬ 
sesses many properties which highly recommend it, among 
which are— A dwarf habit of growth, the plant sent us being 
only about a foot in height. Self-protecting — in this respect 
it resembles Knight’s, by the leaves closing over the head, 
and not only most completely and effectually enclosing them 
from tiro effects of frost, but also keeping them from the 
action of light, and thereby preserving their very fine colour. 
When first we examined them, we thought there was no 
head at all, till after searching for it among the leaves we 
found such as we have described above. This variety is 
quite distinct from Dilcock's Jiridc, or any other we have 
seen. Mr. Melville says, “ I had EHetson's New Emperor 
last year; it w as called a dwarf, but my variety does not 
grow much more than half its height. The winter of 1854 
was a very trying one among Brocoli with us in Scotland. 
The half of the Emperor gave way with me, while in my 
own variety I had not an injured one among them.” A pure 
white Brocoli, a pound-and-threequarters in weight, and 
produced in Scotland in the middle of May, is a thing our 
southern friends should look out after. 
HARDY CREEPERS AND OTHER PLANTS 
SUITABLE FOR A LOW WALL 
BeebeEis Daewinii. —'Ibis is perfectly hardy with me, 
and blooms abundantly on a wall, west aspect, situation dry, 
but fully exposed. It also seems to stand out very well; 
but I have not bad it flower with me yet in that way. 
Escallonia Maceantha.—T his is, perhaps, the hand¬ 
somest foliage of all our evergreens ; and though its flowers 
are not remarkable, it is a great acquisition to our shrub¬ 
beries, and is invaluable in covering a low wall. It grows 
with me in all situations. 
Jasminuji NuniiLOEUM. —This has been so often described 
that 1 need not refer to it here, further than say, that all 
that has been said in its favour is true. It grows freely, and 
blooms equally so in January. 
Stauntonia latifoija. —This has bloomed with me this 
year, and is well worthy a place where a considerable space 
has to be quickly covered. Flowers brown and pale green 
or yellow, in clusters at the axils of the leaves; foliage 
liable to get discoloured in winter; still, it is a useful 
creeper, and worthy a place everywhere. 
Ceonothus azueeus. —This is, perhaps, after all, the best 
of its class; certainly it flowers more freely than C. papi- 
losus; but its appearance, when not in flower, is not so good 
as that variety and some others. One or more of the blue 
flowering ones is indispensable ; and nothing can exceed the 
gay appearance a large plant of it has when well covered 
with bloom. 
Coeonilla glauca. —This seems to do best on a west 
aspect, as some plants I have flower beautifully ; and more 
than one stood the winter of 1854-55. It is certainly 
hardier than the Citisus, to whom it is related, and is 
eminently suited to a low wall. 
Vekonica. —These have not done so well with me against 
walls as in the open ground, and even there the old V. Lind- 
leyana seems to bloom best. As an evergreen, it is much 
behind the Escallonia macrantha in appearance of foliage, 
but is, nevertheless, useful as a variety. 
Myetle.—T his much-neglected plant is certainly worthy 
a place in many cases where a low wall is to be covered in a 
sheltered situation, where its glossy, green leaves, and beau¬ 
tiful white flowers,present a gay appearauce for a long time. 
Severe winters, however, injure it, so that we do not see 
large plants of it everywhere; but it sometimes attains the 
size of a large fruit-tree against a wall, and is then an 
object worthy of notice. It thrives best on a limestone soil. 
—J. Robson. ( To be continued.) 
