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scales represent the four gradations of height. The tallest varieties 

 are placed in the middle or 4th row, and are called fourth row flowers, 

 the shortest in the outside rows, and the others of intermediate 

 heights should be placed in the 2d and 3d rows. In several of the 

 Trade Catalogues the row in which each variety should be grown is 

 given, which is a great assistance to amateurs ; but in cases where a 

 root has not attained its full size, though a blooming root, it should 

 be planted one row farther from the centre of the bed than marked in 

 the Catalogues. 



To keep a bed well regulated, some changes are necessary every 

 year, which should of course be noted down, when the tulips are in 

 bloom. 



Having trespassed too much on your space, I will conclude with a 

 hope that the foregoing observations will not be altogether useless to 

 your readers. 



ARTICLE II. 



ON THE CULTURE OF PELARGONIUMS. 



BY J. M., STOKE NEWINGTON, LONDON. 



When you informed the readers of the Cabinet about the splendid 

 geraniums exhibited at the Horticultural Society, you promised them 

 that you would give, in a future number, the mode of treatment they 

 had received ; but that I have not seen yet, in which (I must say) I 

 am disappointed, for I wished very much to know if there was any 

 thing new in their treatment.* 



A subscriber in the November number of the Cabinet asks you for 

 the said information. But the number for the month of January has 

 come out, and still the said information has not appeared. It is 

 desirable it should be given, for many an amateur in the cultivation 

 of that splendid tribe of plants has looked forward for the said infor- 

 mation with delight, thinking it would be a guide for them, to bring 

 them that was under their care as nigh the same perfection as,they 

 appeared at the Horticultural Society. But that desire they must give 

 up for another season, A floriculturist in Devonshire has been so 

 kind as to give us his treatment of that splendid tribe ; but I hope he 

 will not think it too much of me in saying his mode of cultivation is 



* The person who promised it us has not j r et fulfilled his engagement. — Con- 

 dvctok. 





