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has to compete at exhibitions, it cannot be expected that a detail of what gives 

 him the pre-eminence would be given. Our correspondent must try to equal. 

 A list of sorts for showing is very liberally given by Mr. Cock, in our present 

 number. — Conductor.] 



On Plans of Geeenhouses, &c. — One of your earliest subscribers wishes to 

 remind you that the promises held out in the prefaces to the third and fourth 

 volumes of the Floricultural Cabinet have not yet been fulfilled. I allude 

 to the intention of giving a number of plans of conservatories, greenhouses, cut- 

 ting houses, pits, frames, &c. I have looked in vain for information on such 

 erections, and the preface of the volume just concluded does not hint at such 

 subjects being soon discussed. I therefore beg to call your attention to this 

 matter, and I dare say that many other of your subscribers will be glad of 

 information on these points, so intimately connected with the preservation of 

 their choice plants. 



The gradual improvement in the colouring of the plates must call for the ap- 

 probation of your numerous supporters, and by proving your efforts to please 

 them, ensure you an increased number, and extend the circulation of your very 

 useful publication. A. Z. 



[We will fulfil the promise made. — Conductor.] 



On Seedling Flowers, &c. — Would it not be most proper for all Horticul- 

 tural and Floral Societies to pass resolutions that no prizes be awarded to seed- 

 lings of any flowers that are not superior, in every respect, to those already in 

 cultivation ? If this was done, I think it would prevent so many inferior kinds 

 being offered for sale, and which are stated to have been exhibited and obtained 

 several prizes, such as some of the dahlias that came out the last season, which, 

 when bloomed, were not worth sixpence. C. P. 0. 



Stowmarket, Dec. 17, 1840. 



[No doubt the kinds our correspondent refers to which obtained prizes were 

 considered by the judges at the respective meetings to be deserving of them, and 

 probably superior to every other of the class that they were acquainted with: 

 but had such flowers been exhibited at some other show, the judges would have 

 considered them undeserving, because they knew much superior ones in the same 

 class of colour. Or in the former cases, the standard of merit was a very dif- 

 ferent one from what would have guided the decision in the latter. It is evi- 

 dent that there ought to be but one rule whereby to decide the merits of flowers, 

 then the object of our correspondent might be more fully realized than at the 

 present. We do not agree with our correspondent that no seedling flower is to 

 have a prize unless it be superior in every respect to any other of its class that 

 have been sold out, because a seedling flower may be superior in some desirable 

 particular over every other, when it may be inferior in another way. We could 

 point out, if necessary, many instances to illustrate this, if required; but our 

 readers, no doubt, are acquainted with such. 



In an early number of the Cabinet we shall insert a rule, which relates to 

 dahlias, and which, if judges adhere to, will lead to a correct decision. — Con- 

 ductor.] 



REMARKS. 



On a beautiful Lily, &c. — In passing through France lately, I saw in several 

 towns an elegant white Lily, growing (in pots) about 2 feet higb, having very 

 broad leaves, ribbed almost like the Saxifrage leaf— the flowers drooping, not 

 much expanded. I think that the calyx and spathe were something like my 

 sketchy representation of it, but I did not pay particular attention to its botanical 

 characters, and my memory is not over good. The name attached to it was 

 Lilium mirocale. I do not find it in the first fifty volumes of Curtis, which are 

 all I possess of that valuable work. I do not find it in the seven volumes of 

 your still more useful work, barring the fifth volume, which I have not, and can- 



