... more coal on; Lct us push about the flagon, And the children play snap-dragon. .Make the most of moments flying, Whilst asparagus is tdying, And the green peas looal more distant, With the weather inconsistent. Loss of Spring a Fogy grudges, Morv, as ...

... new kidneyv Pots- tons was wedged in between another of ,!rapes and a box of luscious strawberries. Although i the giant asparagus, included in the collection, was not quite two feet long, asd is con- sequently dwarfed into insignificance bv thac recently ...

... some fine cauliflowers, turnips, &c.; several dishes of tempting, healthy, new potatoes, and a few bunches of magnificent asparagus, sent merely for exhibition by the Bishop of Down and Connor. Of fruits, the display was scanty, but what was shown appeared ...

... bouquet was handed on to the stage. The bouquet, which was composed of lilum lancifolinem ruLram, lapageria alba, swainsonia, asparagus pliunosa, and adiantum, wvith streamers of smiia: and liliums, tied with bows of satin ribbon, was arranged by Messrs. Alexander ...

... vegetables. He can carry the truffle with him to Spitzcergen, and from Nantes he can be supplied with ortolans and Jbie gras and asparagus. It is only just that an honor- able fact shoutl be recorded of the house whose case I am describing. Some years ago, when ...

... S. Craw- ford, Esq., Craford's-burn (Denis Mp'Dinald). FRUEIaTlSEs. Cucumbers-besv brace-lst prize, W. S. Crawford, Esq. Asparagus-best dish-lst prize, F. D. Finlay, Esq. Sealiale-best dlish-lst prize, W. S. Crawford, Esq. Mushrooms-best dish-lst prize ...

... the hedges have no fresh shoots, and the banks no primroses; though our gardens grow blacker instead of greener, and our asparagus refuses to swell-(laughter)-yet, out come our short-horns and our Kerrys with more rounded proportions of form, and more ...

... evergreens. Over the vestry door was a neat arch of white chrysanthemums and maidenhair ferns. The pulpit was trimmed with asparagus plumosos, white cactus dahlias, and Virginian creepers (veitchii); the reading desk was some. what similarly treated, and ...

... and carpets, all of native mnanufricture; 'with wax and candles, Siberian oil, seeds, hops, &c.- 'Specimnens of the wild asparagus are shown, the downy seed of wiich is said to be well calculated for the ma- nufacture of felt; and the whole collection ...

... -First prize, IMr. Wtnl. M'Coy. Becst collectiott ?? nbles. -First prize, -Ms. Wins. M'Coy. Fort ExaitritroN. Soeie hne asparagus from the gardens of the Bishop of Down and Connsor, Artichokses by R. T. elir Rsq. ; also, a collection of sca-swceds liatdsotely ...

... phlox, the bright yell ow of the calceolaria, and the delicate azure of the (cgenita grvusdijlora. Graceful plumes of the asparagus plant drooped their feathery heads over the miniature parterre, and a neatly hiter- laced rim, beaded with the snowberry ...

... r-imimed wt dah li as. The plumnage of the bdwsnety imitate with leaves of tile palmi-fir, and the delicate feathers of' thle asparagus. Trhe fruit departmennt of the Exhibition was the finest We ?? Seett for Som1e y)ear's past. We noticed twoI splendid hearing ...