Mr. Chas. Joly sends us a review of the exhibition of the Horticultural Department, recently, in which he notes that the plants and flowers were arranged with much more taste than usually seen in Paris exhibitions. Double cyclamens were remarkable. Early spring blooming plants, as camellias, azaleas, violets, forced lilacs, primroses, tulips, narcissus, and orchids were prominent. Truffaut Brothers made the chief display.

Chantin had the chief foliage plants and ferns. Teveque was the chief camellia man, and Regnier, the orchid. Robert had the double cyclamens. Salomon, of Thomeray, had the honors on grapes. Though railroads bring fruits from more favored parts at all seasons, dried fruits are attracting more and more attention. Vilmorin made a magnificent exhibit of seeds, Forgeot and Company, of cinerarias and bulbous plants, and their primroses were so remarkable as to receive a gold medal.