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florist transplant some of the most beautiful indigenous tribes into 

 bis own garden, and treat them with care and attention, I venture 

 to predict success to his undertaking. For my own part, I intend, in 

 the spring, devoting a piece of ground to their culture, and try the 

 different effects of various soils on each of them ; and should the 

 result be in any way serviceable, I shall have great pleasure in com- 

 municating it. Are the race of wild flowers to be cast away, how- 

 ever beautiful, because they are natives of our own country ? It seems 

 so ; for do we not see any puny exotic extolled to the skies, while 

 the more splendid hedgeflower is left neglected in its native place? 

 Let the exotic flower in the artificial climate of the stove or green- 

 house, and I admire them ; but more, much more do I admire those 

 flowers to which are linked a train of sweet recollections of childhood's 

 days, when we roved over the green fields among cowslips, butter- 

 cups, and daisies. But some will say this is prejudice ; if the exotic 

 is to remain in its own place with only a share of attention, why not 

 confine the wild flower to its wilderness ? but I would not have you 

 make a field or a hedgerow of your gardens, I would only have expe- 

 riments tried aiming at advantage to floriculture and the general 

 good. 



Cornwall, December 2, 1842. 



ARTICLE VI. 



FLORI CULTURAL GLEANINGS, No. 9. 



DESCRIPTIVE REMARKS ON ADDITIONAL CARNATIONS. 



(Continued from page 57, vol. x.) 



BY MR. WILLIAM HARRISON, SECRETARY TO THE KELI'ON FLORISTS' SOCIETY. 



The following descriptive remarks on a few additional varieties of 

 the Carnation were taken down carefully when the plants were in 

 bloom this last season ; but more important engagements, and, more 

 than all, want of health, have prevented me from forwarding them 

 till now. The hiatus which has occurred in my series has, however, 

 been well filled up by the very excellent descriptive and tabulated 

 remarks furnished by Dianthus in the November Number; and as 

 many of the varieties which he describes are only partially known 

 in the northern counties, the thanks of the north-country florists are 



