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valuable Journal, and perhaps gome reader may point out a good 

 mode of obtaining the greatest degree of warmth by such a method 

 of heating. 



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ARTICLE VI.— COLLECTANEA, 



BT J. K. 



Floricultural Tmposters. — Our neighbours the French, ever 

 and anon, make experimental visits to this country, with a cargo of 

 nominal rarities for our flower amateurs. Last spring, an elderley 

 man with a youth, who spoke broken English, for an interpreter, 

 visited Nottingham, Leicester, Birmingham, and Bath, with yellow 

 moss roses, black moss roses, yellow camellias, yellow lilacs, and 

 other articles with names equally tempting. It is well known, that a 

 yellow cammelia or black moss rose would be invaluable, therefore, 

 these most alluring names, tempted many of the neighbouring gentry 

 to become purchasers, at large prices ; but, however, last summer, 

 when the plants flowered, and showed their characters, the roses proved 

 to be of the most common description, and the yellow camellia only 

 the common red one. Some adventurers of this description sold, what 

 proved to be common yellow laburnums, for scarlet and dark red labur- 

 nums by auction at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, and at the Mart 

 last spring, and realized such high prices, that the imposter must 

 have returned to his brother florists in France, with more money than 





