... almost can paint flowers ! So that, on an average, more than half the innumerable flower pieces in our exhibition are k by women. In all this there is the confidence of igno- rance; for, as a matter of fact, there are many who e paint flowers creditably, ...

... other English yachts will soon follow. The first flower show for the season in the gardens of the Botanical Society in the Regent's Park took place on Wednesday. The collec- tion of plants and flowers, as a whole, was maignificent, and among the rarer ...

... plants, because tiey, have been found living ontbae! trunks and tbyanche~s-of trees; and a vidt, to Yeitch's nursery, Chelsea, 'spuld show you a- great number of ditferent osohids merely fastened to blocks of weed and suspended. here is no end o the number ...

... agriculturists need ask. AN AUTUMN FLOWER is wanted free from the formality of aster and pompon, from the disorderly raggedness of the Japanese chrysanthemum, and from the general shapelessness of the wall- flower. Is such a flower to be found to succeed the ...

... favourites, but they are the best lady Popham is a usefirI flower-one of tie old-taalioreed build, not quite round in the ortlire, ani riot a first-rate petal, but makes up well, and like reltexed flowers genc- rally tolerably certain and well up; but tllthir ...

... in rivalry with those of the flowers, would be to repeat a story which has already been too often told, even during the present season Suffice it that the show, whether as regarded the ex. quisite collection of flowers, the elegance of the costumes ...

... attention at the time. Attending to the dahlias the few days they give us good flowers, and providing winter quarters for the tender subjects, nosy oc- cupy all our attention in the flower garden; but we ought to have our hyacinths and early tulips all ready to ...

... CRYSTAL PALAmC. y A flower show, announced to bo the show of the e year, and one of the most prominent events of the Lorlea season, was held on Saturday in the Crystal Palace. Not. withstanding a most ?? day, nearly 1;,000 persons were attracted to the ...

... centre of the tent, which was 240 feet in circumference, was occu- pied by Mrs. Marryatt, who presided over an attractive show of flowers, and evinced throughout the day a most exemplary business-like zeal in disposing of her perish- able wares. The stalls ...

... to explain to the public, through your kind agency, the real cause of the non-appearance of the balloon at the Burton Flower Show on August 28th. I had beo engaged some months previous by Mr. Stanley, a member of the committee, and that gen- tieman oi ...

... such groups as the ferns, in whiihthe fructification affords (as compared with that of the flowering plants) so little variety. Experience, moreover, showed that this character, of vena- tion, might be relied on with perfect confidence, because whatever ...

... Temple Gardens, 8 o8r t Bartolomew Church, Smithfield, 8 to6;W bednM ti; Kennel Club Show, Olympi;AlEgadLw Tennis Championships, Wimb Sed n S a'e , We.worti) Flower Show, 3.0 ris Bazaar, Villiers Booms, 3. picture Eshibitious 0 ?? Gallery, Trafal. garassuart ...