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man who deliberately goes to work to turn them up, will reap a great 

 reward, — one well worth trying for, and calculated to excite the envy 

 of us poor hacks of editors who sit patiently waiting for the good fruit 

 to come. The French already have a kind that bears for four months, 

 — a poor miserable thing, 'tis true, grown merely as a curiosity for 

 edging borders, as it throws all its energies into flowers instead of 

 runners ; but no matter about the quality, — that is, perhaps, better 

 than the grand aborigines of our present Strawberry-beds. 



Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we must have perpetual Strawberries. 

 All that we have yet had have been myths, — all that we now have 

 may be no more than that ; but who will be the man to show us a real 

 genuine article — one that will stand the test like an English Elton or an 

 American Hovey? He is not far in the future. 



NATIONAL CARNATION AND PICOTEE SOCIETY, 

 CHESTERFIELD, 1859. 



We are the flowers 



Born of sunny hours. 

 Think, whenever you see us, what our beauty saith : 



Utterance mute and bright 



Of some unknown delight, 

 We fill the air with pleasure by our simple breath. 



All who see us love us, 



We fit all places ; 

 Unto sorrow we give smiles, and unto graces, graces. 



Thursday, August 4. — A fine bright morning. We journeyed with 

 a train, not of florists from Nottingham, but of visitors who, attracted 

 by the cheap trains, availed themselves of the opportunity. Indeed, we 

 must say that it was with pain we saw so few of the Carnation and 

 Picotee growers with us ; but whatever was the reason — whether the 

 exhibition being too late, or otherwise — so it was, there were but few 

 present. When we arrived, too, we must say we were disappointed ; 

 for spite of the earliness of the season, we had hoped that some of the 

 southern growers — at all events, Mr. Turner — would have been there. 

 But no. Take a map, and make your furthest point south Chesterfield, 

 and, drawing a line, you would find all your exhibitors come northward 

 of that line. The flowers on the whole, considering the season, were 

 better than we had anticipated. Dreadnought, a new flower, vastly 

 like Admiral Curzon, in many instances occupied a prominent position 

 in the stands, it being exhibited no less than nine times, and standing 

 in point of numbers second in its class. Nurserymen w r ere represented 

 by Messrs. Dodwell & Co., Mr. R. R. Oswald, &c. ; while amateurs 

 were well represented by the Lancashire and Yorkshire growers. In 

 Mr. Openshaw's pan of Twelve Carnations an exceedingly fine bloom of 

 Lord Milton was shown ; while in Mr. Baildon's pan of Carnations a 

 very fine seedling in the style of Lady Ely attracted much attention. 

 The premier Carnation at the meeting was a bloom of Dreadnought, 

 exhibited by Messrs. Dodwell & Co. ; while the same honour was 

 awarded to Mr. E. Wood, of York, for Mrs. Bayley, in the Picotee class. 



