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M aim's Duchess of Buckingham, Davey's Britannia, Wood's King of Roses, 

 and Reynolds's Adelaide. These are line large flowers, possessed of the 

 best properties, and growing at least three inches in diameter. I will ven- 

 ture to say, that a single petal of Hopkins's One-of-the-Ring will completely 

 cover a whole bloom of Bow's Cato, that beau ideal of a Pink of you northern 

 growers. Innovator. 



1836. 



On Pinks. — In perusing your Ftoricultural Cabinet for October last, I 

 find in page 235 a few remarks on Pinks, &c. by Mr. Smith, of Faversham, 

 in Kent. I feel great pleasure in replying to his observations, heartily con- 

 curring with him in wishing you a " very extended circulation"; feeling 

 also surprise, indignation, and shame, on finding there should be any one 

 base enough to rob a grower of his fair fame, by representing under a falso 

 name a flower as his own, which has been raised and grown by another 

 person : any one guilty of such an act, should be excluded from all Florists' 

 Societies. I observe that Mr. Smith states he has been a Pink grower for 

 the last twenty years, and has won the first prize many times, of which 

 statement I have not the least doubt. He also says that he has more than 

 once advertised to show against all Kent. I shall feel obliged if Mr. Smith 

 will bo kind enough to state when, and where; feeling assured, that had his 

 advertisements been seen, there are many gentlemen connected with the 

 Woolwich Society, who would have backed the Woolwich Pink-growers 

 against any town in England; and Mr. Smith would not have gone without 

 a competitor. Should that gentleman feel disposed again to show with any 

 man in Kent, on making the same known to me, he will find his challenge 

 accepted. — I perfectly agree \iith his observations relative to the size of 

 Pinks as stated by Innovator. I have seen many very large Pinks, but 

 there was neither beauty, form, nor any thing in them, worthy the notice 

 of a florist. In answer to Mr. Smith's inquiries where he can get the new 

 and first-rate sorts, I respectfully beg to inform him, he will not find a 

 better collection of Pinks in the kingdom than at Woolwich ; and I further 

 beg to state, that I have three new sorts to be sold out next September, — the 

 first named the Victorious ; the second, the Triumphant ; the third I have 

 not yet named. Not wishing to speak in praise of the quality of the flowers 

 myself, I beg to refer him to the following approved judges, viz. Mr. Nevil 

 and Mr. Smith, of Walworth; Mr. Mortiuoy, of Holloway ; and Mr. Cou- 

 sins, of Welling,— who saw the flowers in bloom last season, and can 

 speak to their quality, &c. ; merely observing, that Mr. Smith, of Walworth, 

 savs, " there was never raised by one man, in any one year, three flowers to 

 equal them." A respectable artist has kindly offered to give me a drawing 

 of them: if so, I shall feel great pleasure in presenting the same to the 

 Fluricultural Cabinet.— In answer to Mr. Smith's last question, concerning 

 the protection of Dahlias from the ant, I beg to reply,— Give them plenty of 

 water, and the ants will quickly disappear. Being a Dahlia grower myself, 

 I shall feel obliged if he can furnish me with a remedy against caterpillars 

 and earwigs. Thos. Ibbett. 



Mount Pleasant, Bull Fields, Woolwich, Jan. 14, 1836. 



P.S. In reviewing a former Number of your Cabinet, I could see great 

 room for improvement in the mode of cultivating Pinks, having grown 

 from 5,000 to 6,000 annually, upon a plan which will not require so much 

 ground by one-fourth, nor so many glasses by one-fourth, as mentioned in 

 a former Number of the Cabinet. The method 1 adopt I will transmit in 

 the course of next month. 



[We shall be obliged by the promised favours. — Conductor.] 



On Mr. Rivers's List of Roses, &c. — I have observed wth regret that 

 although 40 pages of your valuable little work have already been devoted to 



