220 DIALOGUE, kc. 



may naturally be depended upon by a comixture of any two 

 principal colours in the flowers. It is a most interesting attention 

 to be paid to this charming, sweet, flower, to raise the plants, 

 watch their progress, and to daily, in the season, see the first 

 opening flowers of new varieties. It far more than compensates 

 for any attention bestowed. 



ARTICLE III. 



DIALOGUE BETWEEN BLOOMWELL, AN OLD FLORIST; AND 

 AVOULDKNOW, A NEW BEGINNER. 



BY BIZARRE. 



Yi ouldknow. Good morning to you, Mr. Bloomwell, you see 

 I am come again to admire your carnations. 



Bloomwell. I assure you, Sir, I am very glad that my flow- 

 ers have sufficient beauty to attract your notice ; allow me to 

 introduce you to no less a personage than the Queen of Sheba. 



Wouldknow. You mean Lasselles' Queen of Sheba, purple 

 flaked, I suppose ? I have heard much talk about it. 



Bloomwell. Now, you see it, what do you think of it. ? 



Wouldknow. I think it a most beautiful flower, and an in- 

 dispensable one hi every good collection. 



Bloomwell. You are right, it has high colour, good white, 

 and sufficient size. These are very desirable properties, but it 

 is apt to throw the petals too much out of the calyx, and by that 

 circumstance soon becomes loose. 



Wouldknow. I heard Mr. M,, lay a wager the other day atS. 

 Show, that he had paid particular attention to it, and was con- 

 vinced that Turner's Princess Charlotte and it, were one and the 

 same flower, do you agree with him in that opinion? 



Bloomwell. Certainly not, there may be, and is, a great 

 similarity, but the Queen of Sheba was raised by a gentleman, who 

 could notfor a moment be suspected of such a gross deception, as 

 to give out as a seedling of his own, an old and well known flower. 

 A scientific botanist would perhaps sooner point out the difference 

 than a florist, I think Mr. M. could not have paid a greater com- 

 pliment to the Queen of Sheba than by indemnifying her with the 

 Princess Charlotte, a flower which has stood at the head of its 

 class for many years. 



