... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... Mar_ quis and Marohioness of Weaerford, Lord and Laedy Longford, Count Menkorff, and Sir David H Hnarrel Viscount Chelsea, Viscountess Chelsea. and Lord and Lady Phi-aret will join The oveal I circle after dinner. All the musical arrannemen.te made at the ...

... in London the Nationalists PcrUd their English allies are not idle. Last week I attended a Radical meeting in this ?? of Chelsea. convened to hear Mr. Clancy, M.P. for North Dablin. deliver an address on *- The Irish question. The chairman was a Church ...

... ndivisa. In the other houses were f 6pe-iyne of Dicksonia antartica, Alsophila Ox(e-'sa, Eucharis, s- Spring flowering. Achimes are here flowered mag. re niiceatly, quite equal to the fine plants we used to m- see at the London exebitioe,, bat now neglected ...

... blue ribbon round the edre, but the colour must de. peud on the colour of the flowers. No one now-a- days mixes colours and flowers of many kinds in one bouquet. OQe flower, or two winter ferns or ivv leaves is all that is per,nitted. The ribbon tied ...

... and $25 each. The memorial-stones of a new chapel, to cos't £5,100, are to be laid next Thursday at Walhxml Green, in the Chelsea Circuit. This is a growing neighbourhood, where increasing provision faio the spiritual needs of the people is wanted urgently ...

... Firth, the ool- league of Sir Charles Dilke in Chelsea, are mentioned: but Mr. Gladstone hesitates to chiallenge the verdict of a metro- politan ?? y, and Mr. Firth bows and retires. A contest for Chelsea without Sir Charles Dilke in the running would ...

... Lord and Lady Lurgan will not ha-vs a London establish- ment this season, but will be the guests of Lady Lurgan's parents at Chelsea House. The feature of the court dresses on the coming occasion will he the bodice off, instead of rising over the shoulder ...