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necessary. In a desirable open situation, a strongish loam, very freely 

 enriched, and in dry seasons abundance of water at the roots, will 

 grow the plants as vigorous as requisite, and by due regard to having 

 them well secured, by each plant having three or four strong stakes, a 

 judicious pruning away of lateral shoots, pinching off the flower buds 

 so as to leave as many as the necessity justifies, in general the flowers 

 may be brought to the size recpiisite for competing at exhibitions. 



We have drawn up some regulations as a guide for judging at ex- 

 hibitions ; but to avoid making our remarks in the present number too 

 long, we omit them till a future number, when, before the season of 

 exhibiting arrives, we shall insert them. 



ARTICLE II. 



CURSORY REMARKS ON THE TULIP. 



BY MK. WILLIAM HARBISON, 

 SECRETARY TO THE 1-ELTON VI.OKICULTURAI. SOCIETY. 



Being an ardent admirer of the various beauties of Flora, which are 

 generally denominated "florists' flowers," I take the liberty of offer- 

 ing you", for insertion in your very useful and widely circulated 

 Cabinet, the following cursory remarks on the tulip, which I trust 

 will not prove altogether uninteresting to some of your young readers 

 who may he admirers of that most magnificent of all flowers. 

 If it be true, as is asserted by the poet, that there are 



" Son^s in the trees, tongues in the running brooks, 

 Sermons in stones, and good in everything;" 



and to the attentive observer of the beauties and wonders of nature, 



this is strictly true ; then most assuredly the voice which speaks 



most loudly of the wisdom and beneficence of that Omnipotent Being 



who created and overlooks all things, speaks from a bed of fine tulips ; 



fur who that has ever beheld the gorgeous Sight of a bed covered 



with finely painted tulip cups, but would feel his mind at the same 



time elevated above the scene of mortality and change that lies about 



him, and directed to the Source from which all life and beauty first 



■prang into exist, nee V or in the beautiful language of Thomson, 



w ho would not be induced to 



" Look thrdugri nature up to nature's <*o<l ?' 



