... polyanthi, Alpino and fancy auriculas, and violets, slot to mention black and white grapes, strawberries, ecumn- bers, asparagus, and brocoli. The visitors were enlivened while they inspected the flowers by some excellent music, played by the Coldstream ...

... 'Po-sideiit. What do you Wanit to see hilis toriP I want to show l:ill exatctly vhere I svcnt my piictuirc hu ng. The First Asparagus of the Season.-Farmer (at market ?? I Well vn'elunen, I dumino %cot be th. e'rect wvay o se, inr'tbe isle but I gouen ly ...

... very oftim higbly.prized luxuries, and sometimes an acttal ' necessity. To be sleat the end of a day's travel to include asparagus, green peas, end other vegetables in v thie buh lme 'agand o premre a veritable least f swp, 0 fis, eutroe, meat, aad wesrt ...

... those who breathe hard and are obliged to cough are undesirable. Eat and drink noiselessly; don't cut bread, break it; eat asparagus with a fork, and never carry your knife to your mouth. 'Tis inexpressibly vulgar to drain a wine-glass to the last drop ...

... luxuriantly within a walk of Dijon do not supply its markets. They follow the Normandy eggs and butter, the Brittany salad and asparagus, to London, with the result that the inhabitants no longer get them for nothing in the place where they ripen. What the dairy ...

... intervals on the tables which surround the room, and a few excep- tional oxamples occupy the centre. NXet to gigantic E asparagus au I the perfect radishes grown near Paris are elaborate structures of the kind koovu 1 to ChaucLr's England as *-sotiltees ...

... the stone pine of Italy and Southern' France. Mrs. Stone speaks of it as being not really a tree, but a kind of gigantic asparagus, of growth so slow that the dragon tree of Oratava was by the most moderate botanist considered to be six thousand years ...

... subtermrlean system of mushroomn oulti- vatioII at Paris, and on the admirable economy with which an enormous growth of asparagus is 1 locahiSed, afford Cur1ioUs examples of FTenc' dex- terity in the adaptation of meenns to ends. The author peremintorily ...

... some specmens of tbe rwing strawberrv plant. Consider- able space Was worthily allotted to line specimeens of incs, fig, asparagus, cauliflowerscabbages, peas, cu- Maibe turnps, potatoes, onions and radishes. Particu- Masty sturng, too, was the dis aYof ...

... young pro- fessor of medicine whined about the diseases he had inherited from a rakishl father-perhaps he was tot fond of asparagus, says Nora-and discoursed of death and the grave. ALMA STANLEY'S DRESS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ERA. Sir,-In your last issue ...

... salads raised, will no particular advantages of climate, long before English cultivators produce a lettuce, the acres of asparagus, and the caves of the mushroom growers. At every turn we find something ve 1aaY learn from France-though many things that ...

... studies of still life -that dqteqtable Belt of picture whioli shows us beer- jugs and loaves of bread, dead game, fish, asparagus, and so forth. One of the ijrst pictures likely to attract the notice of the visitor is from the band of a Belgian artist ...