... and other flower shows, were on Thursday last disposed of at public auction by Mr. S. R. Force. Mr. Lawless decided on taking this step in consequence of the illness of his gardener, the labour entailed in maintaining such a collection in show oondition ...

... 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, ...

... brightest garien un a midfsummer Jay-are the blooms of a lofty bank of plants. This is known as Jones and Co,'s Christmas Flower Show,: and this yearthe blooms are more natural and the gradations of colour more true than over. Evea the delicate form and ...

... Borneo is a vegetable paralise, and has many strar.ge and beautiful exarnples .f plants and flowers, Among other things our traveller saw pitcher plants with flowers as big as a man's hat. He made anl extensive selection from the flora of I the island, and ...

... Messrs-B, C. Iurray and Co.; £ 3s; t also gifts of vegetables and flowers from Mr S; Budgbtt ; ditto from Miss Tyndall; flowers from the New streeti Mission hall Band of Hope; also from the Flower Mission. LOCAL CoiMUSIssONS;-The Londoan dahette contains tie- ...

... was an action brought by Samunelfymea, market gardener, C George cottage, Lower Swaurwick, agasinst George ki Meggait, 5, Chelsea place, Ballbiook, to recover Al 4s e' damages for trespass. There was a counter claim for fi damages for plaintiff's cutting ...

... butterfly from Iloswer to flower. But )k her sister was gazing at the lark as it aiose from its low nest and warbled among the clouds. And when it was noon, the child said er agaiin, Come, my sister, and pluck with me the flowers of the aarden* for they ...

... and flowers in trellis pattern, b19w c pair of hawthorn pattern jars, with covers, conplete, £3210; a set of three jars, with covers, and pair of beakers painte d vases i, trellis bordeM o105, a large jar and cover painted with baskets of flowers in white ...

... Comspson, Mises Farquhar, and Miss Park M:rs L. Whlte prosided at tha tea and coffee stall, and Mrs. Blake at the fruit and flower stall, with lady friends, tbe. Mics ?? all assbting at the refiflboser,~ Mr. Mockler to costuntn as an eastern . erchant did ...

... the resolution, and gave some particulars of the work of the institution duridg the present year, He said the total receipts showed a decrease of £1082 compared with the coiTe. spond lag period of 1890,but this was entirelyacounted for by a reduction In ...

... past year, which were of a satisfactory nature, showing a profit of £13 on the last exhibition, wbich was added to the reserve fund, which now amounts to'£40. The accounts were passed, and the next show iwas fixed for Angust 1st, 1899, the Tuesday prior ...

... sources, and in one of them I am especially interested. The Duchess of Albany has been in the habit of sending flowers to the patients in the Chelsea Hospital for Women, and only in July last she and her husband opened the new building in which the patients ...