FIVE MINUTES ADVICE TO A YOUNG FLORIST. 5 



cuttings struck in sand or sandy peat. No doubt it will flourish in 

 the open ground, and become one of its greatest ornaments. It de- 

 serves a place in every greenhouse, conservatory, and flower garden. 

 Besides this noble and truly splendid species, it is noticed in the 

 "Flora Peruviana" that there are still more magnificent kinds; 

 viz., F. serratifolia, growing in the manner of F. macrostemma, and 

 its varieties, having flowers an inch and a half long, of a pretty pink 

 colour. F. apetala and simplicicaulis are more striking than F. 

 corymbijlora ; whilst F. denticulata is stated to grow four yards high, 

 loaded with flowers larger than F. corymbiflor;i, of a beautiful purple 

 colour. Those of our readers who have friends in that part of 

 Mexico would render an essential service to the floricultural public 

 by obtaining seeds or roots of all the kinds not yet introduced into 

 this country. So extensively does this beautiful tribe of plants 

 abound in Mexico, that it is said forests are richly adorned with 

 them, whilst the rivers and brooks are most interestingly ornamented 

 with the profusion of their pretty drooping flowers. Poets have been 

 enraptured by it, and sung — 



" The babbling brooks, the fall 

 Of silver fountains, and the unstudied hymns 

 Of cageless birds., whose throats 

 Pour forth the sweetest notes ; 

 Shrill through the crystal air the music swims ; 

 To which the humming bee 

 Keeps careless company, 

 Flying solicitous from flower to flower, 

 Tasting each sweet that dwells 

 Within their scented bulls; 



Whilst the wind sways the forest, bower on bower. \ 

 That evermore, in drowsy murmurs deep, 

 Sings in the air, and aids descending sleep." 



WlFFEN. 



ARTICLE II. 



FIVE MINUTES' ADVICE TO A YOUNG FLORIST. 



BY MK. WILLIAM WOODMANSKY, HARPIIAM, NEAR DRIFFIELD, YORKSHIRE. 



PAPER 1st. 

 [N.B. Owing to a Post Office accident, this paper is misplaced; it 

 ought to have appeared in the August number of the " Cabinet." — 

 Conductor.] 

 My Young Friend, 



I will suppose you have long been an admirer of the beauties 

 of Flora ; you have travelled far to behold, and have not failed^ to 



