le exotics of the East.

Some idea of the dimensions of the two principal works may be
gathered from the fact, that the shades are nearly six feet high,
the largest ever blown in England, and the flowers occupied nearly a
year in modelling. It was the intention of Mrs. Peachey to forward
these beautiful specimens of her skill to the Great Exhibition,
where a prominent place on the ground-floor was assigned to them;
but it appears, that, owing to subsequent arrangements, another
space, in one of the galleries, was allotted to her, and not at all
adapted to such costly and fragile productions. The heat of the sun,
in such an exposed situation, would have damaged the flowers
irreparably; and even if this objection did not exist, it would be
impossible to have the enormous shades, with their delicate
contents, raised by any machinery at command into the desired
position. The exhibition is one of so novel and beautiful a
character, that it will well repay a visit.--_Morning Post._

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The art of making flowers in wax has been brought to a very high
degree of perfection by Mrs. Peachey, Her Majesty's artiste. There
is not a floral production that she cannot truthfully and delicately
reproduce with her kindly material, and she has lately executed a
work which we believe defies competition in the department to which
it belongs. This is an enormous bouquet, containing flowers of the
most intricate structure, and supported by a rock, which peers from
a lake of the brightest looking glass, decorated in its turn with
waxen aquatic plants. All the flowers were modelled in the first
instance from white wax, and the beautiful colours are all produced
by painting. The whole group is enclosed by a shade, composed of
four glass plates, so curved as to meet at the top.

The work in question is to be seen in Rathbone Place, but it was the
intention of Mrs. Peachey that it should be seen at the Crystal
Palace. According to her statement, she was led to believe that she
would be allowed a ground-floor situation, but was only allowed a
place in the gallery, so exposed to the sun, that the first hot day
would have performed a work precisely the reverse of her own
labours. Under these circumstances she has deemed it better that her
flowers should blush unseen, than