A fair, which is held as soon as the frosts are over, and which lasts a whole month, viz: from the 25th of May, to the 25th of June, is almost exclusively a flower fair; it is at this fair that the nobility and country gentlemen make their purchases for decorating their country houses, to which they are about to retreat. The flowers are supplied almost entirely from Germany. We remarked the hundred-leaved and four-seasons Rose, planted in a sort of hamper; Cherry, Apple, Plum, Service, and Sweet Chestnut trees, a few Pear trees, all shrubs, and selling for double what they do in Paris; the Lilies of the Valley, especially, seemed to bear a most exorbitant price. We saw, too, Paeonies, and all sorts of perennial and shrub-like plants.

Flowers are sold, too, by travellers, who go from house to house, carrying upon their heads boards upon which the flowers in pots are closely packed. But these pedlars offer their purchasers neither variety nor beauty, a few Wallflowers, Pelargoniums, Fuchsias, Lilies, Echi-nm. Gesneras, Roses, Mignonette, Cinerarias, Verbenas, Phlox, and Justicia, form the whole of their collection.

Although there are many more florists in St. Petersburgh than in Paris, the collections of the former are much more meagre than those of the latter. Their trade in bouquets, and flowers in pots, is prodigious, far surpassing what we had imagined. - Masson's Report.