20 THE FLORIST. 



St. Margaret (Barker), rich crimson, violet shot ; beautiful variety. 



♦Tricolor (Dufoy), pale pink, carmine centre ; showy, small, and free. 



•Tomy ( diamine), dark crimson. 



•White Perfection (Smith), fine. 



•Vicomte de Saurra] (Chauviere), rich crimson scarlet. 



Vixen (Smith), grey lilac; good shape, bad grower. 



•Venus de Canova (Chauviere), pale lavender, rich large purple centre 



exfine shape. 

 •Vulcan Superb (Bell), bright crimson, scarlet; rich and fine. 

 •Valentine de Sareuae (Chauviere), finest blue. 

 •Wonder of Scarlets (Ivery), light scarlet. 



Those marked thus * are well adapted for bedding-out purposes. 



wi;ndow greenhouses. 



( To the Superintendent of The Florist). 



Dear Sir, — I must plead guilty to the charge of never having seen, 

 or indeed heard of, The Florist, till you called my attention to it ; but 

 I like the number you were so kind as to send me so well, that I 

 have ordered my bookseller to supply me with it henceforth. 



You ask me the particulars of my " window- greenhouse," in 

 which, as I have been sufficiently successful not only to please 

 myself, but to have imitators because of that success, I have great 

 pleasure in telling you — no, not you, but your readers — how I 

 manage matters. I had last season about 900 blossoms on 35 

 plants, and as I am not aware that the care of them took up time 

 that ought to have been otherwise employed, and was a pleasure all 

 through the year as well as in the blooming season, I really should 

 be glad to see the system more general. I cannot promise that all 

 shall succeed who may try it, but I think I can shew that those 

 who do not may charge themselves with their failure. 



Probably most of your readers have occasionally noticed a most 

 nourishing tree, covered with healthy blossoms, in an old broken 

 teapot in some cottage- window ; and some may have thence inferred 

 the uselessness of care and science in the treatment of plants. I do 

 not draw that conclusion from the fact. For look at that sickly 

 thing in the next window to it. How much better and healthier 

 the flowers look in the one window than the other ! And yet the 

 houses are built on the same plan, and stand next to one another; 

 and therefore the inference I should draw is, that there is a right 

 way and a wrong of growing flowers ; and, further, that a person 

 who uses the right will succeed under great apparent disadvantages. 

 And as a closer inspection always shews the difference to be in the 

 person and not in the place, and that such persons rarely spend much 

 time or pains upon their pets, and yet every thing seems to succeed 

 with them, it is plain that those who will follow their example will 

 make their window-plants flourish as well as theirs do. And this is so 



