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correct to name. Many of his roots came to this neighbourhood, 

 and I never heard a single complaint. 



Triomphe Royale. — You dispute as to the pointed petals. Perhaps 

 the southern florists have, in this instance, sent something else, for 

 ours are pointed. 



Violet Belle Forme came from your friend, or I should rather say 

 your prompter, and bloomed as described two years together. The 

 same may be said of Voltaire. 



Lastly, Walworth. — You state we must not have got the true 

 strain, but something else for it. How convenient a way to get out! 

 The first root we had came from the raiser at Walworth, for which 

 7/. or 7/. 105. was paid. The florist's name who purchased it was 

 Cowley, and lived four miles from Manchester. 



It is useless to lengthen this letter by answering your remark 

 upon my growing discarded flowers, time will show; and as the old 

 saying is, " The credit got by a falsehood only lasts till the truth 

 comes out." 



I had omitted to notice your recommendation of Madam Vestris, 

 and Princess Sophia of Gloucester, but not a word about their being 

 one variety. If you had been a sincere well-wisher to the young 

 amateur, you would have put him on his guard and stated the truth 

 fearlessly. I shall now take my leave of you, and assure you I shall 

 now leave it in the hands of the public to judge for themselves, and 

 will conclude by recommending to you the following piece of advice — 

 " Civility is a kind of charm that attracts the love of all men." 



ARTICLE III. 



REMARKS ON THE RANUNCULUS. 



BY C. J. M. C, OF ARBROATH. 



Having observed, in glancing over the pages of the February Number 

 of your useful and very interesting Floral Cabinet, a correspondent 

 who asks for the " best and simplest method of growing the Ranun- 

 culus," and as no answer has been given to the querist in the subse- 

 quent month, should you deem the following remarks worth a portion 

 of your space in the May Number, they are* very much at your 

 service. 



