VEGETABLE BOUQUETS. - At the north gate of the Floral Tower at the Mechanics' Fair, are two handsome bouquets, which have been much admired by the ladies, who usually take them for real flowers, and then smell them and decide that they are ingenious wax-work. But they are not; they are ingenious vegetable work, and were carved out of turnips, beets, etc., by Raphael, the Pavilion Restaurant cook. They small moderately good, but a little turpentine might improve their flavor.
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NIGHT BLOOMING CEREUS. - A fine specimen of this rare flower sits beside the north entrance to the Floral Tower in the Pavilion at the Mechanics' Fair, and is an object of great interest to the curious in such matters. It is very regular in its habits, and those habits are bad -- it runs all night; that is to say, it comes out in full bloom in the evening, and punctually shuts itself up in the morning and sleeps all day; its personal appearance, under the latter circumstances, is suggestive of a snake with a goose's head on it. This specimen is from the Golden Gate Nursery.
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FOR THE EAST. - "Jack" Perry, the popular Marshal of Virginia City, will leave for the East by the next Panama steamer.
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