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season we intend to make a particular descriptive list of them and 

 insert it in the Cabinet. 



No. 2.— FUCHSIA LAMII. 

 This very fine hybrid was raised by Messrs. Lanes, of the Berk- 

 hamstead Nursery, and is now offered for sale by them. 



No. 3.— FLORA.— (Harrison'*) 

 This is one of the seedlings we sent out last summer. It is one 

 of the loveliest grown, a most profuse bloomer, of a beautiful rose 

 colour. Many of the flowers have six or eight sepals, and a double 

 portion of petals, which gives additional interest to them. 



No. 4— PULCHERRIMA.— (Harriton's.) 

 This is one of the handsome kinds we now advertise to come 

 out. (See Advertising Sheet in March and April Numbers.) 



ARTICLE II. 



A FEW PLAIN REMARKS UPON THE ARTICLE WRITTEN BY A 

 MIDLAND FLORIST. 



BY MR. JOHN SLATER, FLORIST, PEACOCK-HOUSE, CHAPEL-LANE, CHEETHAM-HII.f., 



NEAR MANCHESTER. 



I have hesitated whether to reply to the remarks of a Midland Florist, 

 as it is anonymous, but thinking, if silent, that it might be construed 

 that I had made some false statement, I am induced to make a few 

 observations in reply to his article. Previous, however, to entering 

 upon the subject, allow me to suggest the propriety of appending his 

 name for the future, as it will enable the readers of the Cabinet to 

 judge respecting flowers, &c, in dispute. It does not, in this in- 

 stance, look well in this case, as the flower he has brought promi- 

 nently forward was raised in his district; and it often happens that 

 there is a strong partiality evinced to such in their own locality. 



If the Midland Florist would read the remarks which has induced 

 him to come forward as the champion of Don John, he would see 

 that it was only slightly alluded to, and that no mention is made of 

 its not possessing some approved qualities ; the sentence meant, that 

 in the north we wanted flowers with good properties, and had I said 

 that Don John was deficient in all, I should have written a falsehood. 



