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twelve dissimilar blooms, two prizes for the members' own seedlings, 

 and one prize open to all England, and which was awarded to me for 

 a seedling that I named Captain Dean Dundas, and have no doubt 

 but that the ensuing season it will be the finest in the kingdom. 

 There has been a new Pink sent out under the name of the Ne Plus 

 Ultra. Should any grower of it feel disposed to show it against 

 Captain Dean Dundas at the last-named society for the same sum, I 

 will with great pleasure bring the gallant Captain into the field for the 

 third time, and he shall be attended by my Prince Albert; and 

 should he take the right, I will place my Victoria on the left, who 

 will not be afraid to show herself against any Victoria at present 

 sent out. 



P.S. Should the above remarks be found worthy of a place in your 

 valuable Cabinet, I shall at any future time feel a pleasure in for- 

 warding any information that I think may be useful. 



[We feel greatly obliged to our respected correspondent, and shall 

 be glad of any other communication. — Conductor.] 



ARTICLE V. 



ON GROWING THE PETUNIA AS SPECIMENS ON LAWNS. 



[BY MR. G. SPARY, WESTMEON, HAMPSHIRE. 



Not having seen in any number of your Cabinet a method of grow- 

 ing the Petunia as specimens on lawns, I beg to send you my plan 

 of cultivating it, which, though very simple, at the same time by the 

 mode I adopt, I have grown 'plants surpassing any I have yet seen 

 elsewhere of the kind. To some of your numerous readers it no 

 doubt will be nothing new, but to the majority of them it probably 

 will. 



In the beginning of February I take plants that were struck the 

 previous autumn, and had been potted into forty-eight sized pots to 

 the number required, always choosing the best plants I have ; I then 

 pot them into thirty-twos, filled with equal parts of 4 loam from an old 

 melon bed and leaf mould, with a little sand, which when filled with 

 roots I shift them into twenty-fours, and lastly into sixteens. 



After I commence potting in February, I either place the plants in 

 a warm part of the greenhouse, or in a pit having about sixty de- 

 grees of heat, either place I find will do. If I find the plants not as 



