The Ladies

It used to be said that ladies were "those pinks, carnations, roses, and tulips, that required the protection of a bonnet!" Where are all these beauties of the streets; the bonnet part, at least, has disappeared.

A Ladies Horticultural Society

Why not? good idea! making flowers the leading feature of the exhibition. A successful society of this nature exists already in Pennsylvania, entitled the Ladies' Floricultural and Horticultural Society Of Montgomery County, Penn. During the month of June it held its spring fair at Ambler Park, and made an attractive display of flowers and plants, and awarded premiums to the amount of $400. The rivalry was good humored and spirited.

Ladies' Dresses

The Westminster Review has taken up the topic of crinoline, and thus alludes to inconveniences that, doubtless, some of our readers will recognize: "The most delicate flowers in the garden are cut off by the ladies' hems as they walk the path, and the little greenhouse is no place for such tragedy queens; they cannot move without knocking down half a dozen pots".

Ladies' Eardrop Apple

A curiosity, perhaps, and as such, therefore, well enough to figure it; but certainly no fruit-grower of common sense will cumber his ground with a tree of a fruit that is good for nothing but to look at, when there are plenty of sorts like, for instance, the Lady Apple, which are both beautiful to look at and good to eat.

Ladies' Work Table

This department comprises engravings and descriptions of every article that a lady wean.

Lady Banks' Rose

The Agriculturist says: "The Banksian Rose was so named in honor of the wife of Sir Joseph Banks, upon its introduction from China into England in 1807. The plant is a vigorous climber, attaining the height of thirty to fifty feet. Unfortunately it is not hardy in the Northern States, but our friends at the South can avail themselves of it as a most charming plant with which to ornament the pillars to their verandas. The flowers are only about half an inch across, and grow in clusters, which are produced most profusely. It blooms only once a year".

Lady Cullum

Richest in shades of gold yellow and grass green with fine shades of red; a good grower, keeping its color long.

Lady Downes' Grapes

A correspondent referring to the difficulty of inducing this grape to break its buds regularly, was induced to remove the outer covering of the buds with the happiest results. - Got-tage Gardener, p. 323.

Select Variegated Zonal Geraniums, excluding the most expensive: Goldm - Mrs. Pollock, Sunset, Sophia Cusack, Lucy Grieve, Lady Cullum, and Mrs. Benyon. Silver - Italia Unita, Argus, Beauty of Guest-wick, Imperatrice Eugenie, Burning Bush, Silver Star, Bronze, Beauty of Oulton, Bronzed Queen, Mrs. Longfield, Canary Bird, Luna, Circlet. - Ibid., p. 331.

Lady Wiluyughby D'Eresby

Creamy white; form and substance very fine; an excellent variety.

Laelia Praestans

From R. Warner, Esq., Broomfield. A weak plant, bearing one small flower, of a very ornamental'character. The stems were short clavate; the leaves oblong acute or bluntish. The flowers were of a pale purplish rose, three and a half inches in expansion; the sepals lanceolate, the petals ovate, twice as broad as the sepals, the lip rolled up into a curved tubular form, about an inch and a half long, and having inside, near the mouth, four very slightly raised or crested veins, the two exterior of which were the most prominent; the tube-formed portion of the lip was orange-yellow inside, and tinged with purple exteriorly, the mouth being of a deep rose-purple indistinctly margined with white. It was very closely allied to L. pumila.