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of them at the exhibition. If they pretty nearly agree, you may 

 make your purchase of the kinds as first chosen : but if the flowers 

 in general appear much smaller— angular in their shape — or undu- 

 lated and wavy at their surface — strike out all such from your list 

 (they are inconstant, and will not fail to disappoint you), and fill up 

 their places with others whose habits 'are more to be depended on. 

 Those with undulated surfaces, you may rest assured had had one of 

 the florist's tricks played upon them, namely, that of pressing, to 

 make them appear as you saw them at the show. 



One sentence more and I will close this paper; and if the editor 

 approve of my friendly advice, I shall, as opportunity offers, present 

 you with a few more papers on the choice of other florists' flowers. 



As soon as you have made choice of a plant, take up a handful of 

 the soil near it, and examine minutely its richness and texture ; and 

 be careful to notice, whether its situation be fully exposed to the 

 solar rays, or partially, or wholly shaded ; and as far as is in your 

 power, when you get it home, give it the same soil and aspect. If 

 you attend to these plain simple directions, you will soon be able to 

 procure a splendid collection of constant, good-habited flowers ; and 

 only make up your mind never to bloom your plants more than one 

 season, but strike cuttings frcm them, and plant those rooted cuttings 

 for the next year's bloom ; then, and only then, you will continue to 

 maintain a healthy, handsome, and strong-blooming collection. 



ARTICLE IV. 



OX CATALOGUES OF TULIPS, AND THE CULTIVATION OF 

 FUCHSIA FULGENS. 



BY DAHl., OF MMEHOUSE, LONDON. 



It was my intention to have fully responded to the urgent call of your 

 worthy correspondent Mr. William Harrison in a late number, to the 

 growers of Tulips who were readers of the Cabinet : with that in- 

 tention I made minutes of my own bed, and visited several select beds 

 in the neighbourhood, feeling the very great importance of the subject. 

 I think that no person, however contracted his means of gaining or 

 giving information, should refuse to lend a helping hand if he can 

 in any way do it, unless he is "sure that that information can, or will, 



