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T NE GARDENING WORLD 
March 9, 1907. 
Horticultural Exhibition at Mann¬ 
heim. —In connection with the Inter¬ 
national Exposition of Art to be opened 
on the 1 st May next at Mannheim on the 
Rhine (Germany), there will be held a 
horticultural exhibition, which will par¬ 
take of an international character. It is 
hoped that gardeners from all parts of the 
world will contribute to the various depart¬ 
ments, which will include flowers, fruits, 
and vegetables, horticultural novelties, 
and examples of the latest methods of 
fruit culture, etc., in various countries. 
A great feature will be made of Orchids 
and Cacti, among the latter, as a Ger¬ 
man correspondent informs us, being 
“gigantic Cactus plants from Mexico and 
South America, the pains and charges of 
conveyance of them being pretty high.” 
The same correspondent informs us that 
in this exhibition “a number of most ex¬ 
quisite artists will participate by creating 
special gardens, each of them promising 
to be remarkable by its originality. Pro¬ 
bably,” he adds, “modern horticultural art 
will obtain numerous new incitations and 
great impulse from this exhibition.” 
In the Days of the Topiarius.— In 
the days when topiary work flourished 
there were protests against the mutilation 
of trees by the great shears of the toipiarian 
artists. “We run into sculpture,” writes 
an essayist in the “ Guardian ” of 29th 
September, 1713, “and are yet better 
pleased to have our trees in the most awk¬ 
ward figures of men and animals.” In a 
delightful vein of humour and satire he 
concludes his paper by describing a cata¬ 
logue of Yews, Box and other evergreens 
to be sold by an enterprising gardener. 
Some of the lots run as follows : — 
“Adam and Eve in Yew; Adam a little 
shattered by the fail of the tree of know¬ 
ledge in the great storm; Eve and the 
serpent very flourishing. 
“ The tower of Babel, not yet finished. 
“A pair of giants, stunted, to be sold 
cheap. 
“Divers eminent modern poets in bays, 
somewhat blighted, to be disposed of, a 
pennyworth. 
“St. George in Box; his arm scarce 
long enough, but will be in a condition to 
stick the dragon by next April. 
“ Noah's ark in Holly, standing on the 
mount; the ribs a little damaged for want 
of water.” 
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many plants that the white men find no 
value in, among them Seaweeds, Fungi, 
Lichens, and Ferns. 
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