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  2. The Garden.

    AMONG exotic bulbs, there is none more worthy of generals attention than Amarylis (more properly speaking, Hippeastrum) in its many varieties. Whether we regard the family from a purely ornamental point, or from the facile ...

    Article : 2,086 words
  3. Plants Eligible for Australian Culture.

    OPUNTIA VULGRIS, Miller.—Central America north-ward to Georgia, southward to Peru. Adapted for hedges and like the rest inflammable, thus particularly valuable along railway lines. The fruit almost smooth, also eatable. ...

    Article : 1,239 words
  4. Fine Arts.

    IN the Art Journal for May appears a paper on the above subject, from which it is intended to take a few extracts from time 10 time. The writer of tie article is M. J arras, of Florence, who thus introduces his subject:— ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 521 words
  5. ENCOURAGEMENT TO THE FINE ARTS.

    The late Mr. Thomas Smith, of Glaasingill, Perthshire, and of Fitzroy-square, London, left a sum of £22,000 for the erection in Stirling of an institute for the promotion of the Fine Arts. The same donor also bequeaths a ...

    Article : 77 words
  6. ART NOTES.

    The trustees of the National Gallery, London, have purchased of Captain Vivian, Mantegna's "Triumph of Scipio," for £1580. Two paintings have recently been bequeathed to the ...

    Article : 85 words
  7. PICTURE SALES.

    The English papers report several sales having lately taken place. At Brussels, Roybet's "The Smoker," fetched £400; Bianchi's "The Parade," £220; L. Rossi's "The Master's ...

    Article : 332 words
  8. Peach Pruning.

    THE peach is one of those fruit trees that the more pruned the better it is for the well-being of both tree and fruit. The shape aimed at should be a roundish low bushy head, and this can only be attained by a careful system of ...

    Article : 433 words
  9. EXPLORATION IN NORTH WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    WE have been courteously supplied with the following telegraphic report sent by Mr. St. K. Kauckey to the Superintendent of Telegraphs in referents to his search for Nation, who knocked up on his journey from Queensland ...

    Article : 1,859 words
  10. OBITUARY.

    WILHELM VON KADLBACH.—This distinguished gnat German artist died at Munich, on 6th April last. He was bora in 1805, in a small town of Arolsen, in Westphalia; studied under Cornelius of Dusseldorf, and in 1826 became ...

    Article : 218 words
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