... be done to render a w; wilderaess one of 4 the ?? of Lendon, where Ithe display of flowers has surpassed that of both the t Vest End parks. The writer goes on to show how the fpeople appreciate the beauties of the parks ?? Cases tof llower picking are ...

... submitted documents with reference thereto, arrangements were made with regard to the forthcoming Spring Show-fixed for Thursday, April 26th-and the other shows of the year. Some other matters having been disposed of, the attention of the members of the committee ...

... there will be an excited crowd seeking to purchase these relics. 'he deal chair upon which Lady Proudheart sat at some flower show, giving a look of recognition to her female friends and remarking when they passed upon their bonnets, may sell at a sacri6ce ...

... was a rose show at the Horticultural, and the girls had coahe in their scores and their hundreds till they hedged round the roses with a living wall of loveliness, and made it hard even for the connoisseur to keep his gaze fxed on the flowers he had come ...

... art workmanship, table spoons, forks, tea, salt, and des- sert spoons, soup ladles, waiters, a magnificent salver, fruit and flower stands, oval dishes, toast racks, cruet stands, &c., and an exquisitely finished card case. The following inscription is engraved ...

... not confined to the weaker sex, and that the initiative is a case of honours divided. The gold medal of the show fell to Messrs. Veitch, of Chelsea. for a most remarkable collec- tion of pitcher plants with bottles of enornmoun silk. Now when Africa is so ...

... comment on last year. La Cbarmeuse isa very free flowering kind of the Japanese section, vwith flowers of a bright puce colour, and is one 3 of the best now in floer. Reverie is also a very a good kind flower, brick-red, the petals well re- - fexed and close ...

... al show for the year was held last week. It in is a question for the ingenious to decide Ca whether the brilliancy of this file owes Ea] most to nature or to art. The flowers, which an are always admitted to be unsurpassed at any gra of the shows held ...

... interior of the esane tuary was richly carpeted, and the higb altar blazed with wax lights, interspersed with the choicest flowers of the season, The fine interior of this noble Gothic pile presented an im- t posing eight as thousands of the faithful, rich ...

... intervals down a long table, the most inexpensive of ornsaments where flowers are scarce, Chrysanthemums are holding out in spite of the weather, and these, with the great variety of white flowers now cultivated. or imported, make chaste dinner-table dreising ...

... faco of Londonl. Not only is nature doing her part in the parks6 and gardens, setting trecs and grass &ll 'a grow~ving and flowers all a blowing, but art is lbnsy also pretltrinog all sorts of surprises for the tainintial visitors whlo will come to ILoudon ...

... Na- tional school, in which Miss Hourighan showed samples of needlework and knitting work by the children. An address of welcome was read by one of the pupils, Bridget MT'Cabe, and a pretty bouquet of [flowers was presented to the Countess, who thanked ...