Amid the great interest in preparing floral decorations with cultivated flowers, it is certainly an item of curiosity to learn that the first prize at the annual exhibition of the Tun-bridge Wells Horticultural Society, was awarded to a lady, for her skillful decoration of wild flowers. The variety was a large one, and each tazza and trumpet were filled with Dog Roses, blue Forget-me-Nots, brown tinted sprays of Oak leaves and British Ferns, in each tier the flowers and foliage were most charmingly intermixed.

The first prize among gardeners was given to Mr. R. Downing, for the following pretty arrangement: Out of a tazza rose a glass stem, supporting on the top of the trumpet. Half way up this stem projected three tiny curved branches. In the tazza were blooms . of deep crimson Roses, Stephanotis, blue shaded Statice, etc, set off by Ferns and other foliage. The small curved branches contained blossoms of Stephanoti and Statice, intermixed with fronds of Adiantum cuneatum. In the trumpet was an elegant plume of Ferns, Grasses, and flowers, similar to those employed in other portions of the stand; while drooping down from the mouth of the trumpet were long sprays of Selaginella, which gave a certain amount of grace to the whole arrangement.