200 REMARKS ON ARTICLES IN THE CABINET ON TULIPS. 



have exhibited it very fine this summer, of a pure white, beautifully 

 laced with purple. To obtain it thus, I adopted the following plan. 



I had a flat piece of board nailed to an upright support, high enough 

 to come under the flower; a niche was made in the board just wide 

 enough to admit the stem, and the opening, after the stem was intro- 

 duced, is closed up with a little moss. The flower being thus fixed, 

 I cover it over with a tumbler-glass in order to keep the air from it. 

 Over this glass I place another to keep the flower from being scalded 

 by the sun. 



By the above-described simple means I have bloomed the Pink 

 most beautiful for the last two seasons, and the result very amply 

 repays for the little attention given. 



ARTICLE IV. 



A FEW REMARKS ON AN ARTICLE IN THE FEBRUARY NUM- 

 BER, 1840, OF THE CABINET, BY MR. TYSO, AND UPON THOSE 

 BY MR. WILLIAM HARRISON, OF FELTON BRIDGE, IN NORTH- 

 UMBERLAND, IN THE AUGUST NUMBER, 1841. 



BY MR. JOHN SLATER, FLORIST, ALBION-PLACE, LOWER BROUOHTON, NEAR MAN- 

 CHESTER. 



I had purposed some time ago to reply to some articles inserted in 

 your Cabinet respecting Tulips, but want of leisure has hitherto 

 prevented me. 



I must preface my remarks by observing, that what I write is not 

 in anger, nor intended to hurt the feelings of any one, but my desire 

 is to promote a love of Horticulture, and more particularly a know- 

 ledge of the Tulip. 



In the first place, Mr. Tyso, like many of the southern florists, 

 does not think much of the taste, or of what the northern florists 

 raise, as if nothing good came out of the north. We are, I admit, 

 behind them in raising of Tulips and Dahlias from seed ; and the 

 reason is, the length of time it requires to perfect a blooming bulb of 

 the Tulip from seed, has deterred many from paying attention to it ; 

 and another reason is, the humidity of the climate scarcely permits 

 the seed to ripen. In Tulips we are rapidly advancing upon them, 

 and I doubt not in a few years we shall equal, if not surpass, them. 

 It cannot be denied that in Auriculas, Polyanthuses, Pinks, and Car- 



