SEPTEMBER, 209 



WORTON-COTTAGE MEETINGS. 



Our two last plates and the present one have been prepared 

 from coloured memorandums taken by Mr. Andrews of flowers 

 exhibited at these Meetings. This was one of the great objects 

 we had in view in tlieir establishment ; and now that the 

 season is drawing to a close, we are enabled to state from our 

 experience that meetings of the same kind held in a more 

 central situation, and on a more convenient day than Wed- 

 nesday has proved, would be attended with singular advantage 

 to every raiser and lover of Florists' flowers. 



The great point to be aimed at should be a good room in 

 an open situation, surrounded, if possible, by a garden in 

 which such objects are well cultivated, thereby affording the 

 means of comparing seedlings with the best varieties in culti- 

 vation; for however conversant a person may be with the latter, 

 the judgment is often at fault unless such means of compa- 

 rison be at hand. 



We have always set our face against the exhibition of our 

 favourites in the murky air of the great city or our large 

 towns. In the purer air and better light found in their 

 suburbs, they are seen to much greater advantage, and have a 

 far better effect ; and now that the means of communication 

 are so rapid and abundant, there is little to urge against our 

 proposition. 



The increasing beauties and excellences of form apparent 

 in the great bulk of flowers sent for our examination have 

 been very striking, making it a truly difficult task to select 

 the objects for our illustrations. Mr. E. G. Henderson, 

 of the Wellington Road Nursery, who is so well known as 

 an improver of the Cineraria, supplied Madame Sontag and 

 Lady Hume Campbell ; the third was raised by Mr. G. Smith, 

 of Lorrimore lload, Walworth. 



It is unnecessary to say any thing here with respect to the 

 cultivation of the Cineraria, as that is fully treated of in our 

 Almanac at the end of each Number, as well as in articles by 

 Mr. Kendall in our former Volumes. 



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