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winning flowers at the principal exhibitions gives us an idea of the criterion of 

 their merits. What flower obtained the premium seedling prize ? — [We endea- 

 voured to procure the account, but, with our correspondent, we regret we were 

 unable to do so, from some of the parties who obtained prizes failing to furnish 

 the names of the flowers composing their stands. Mr. Widnall's Argo succeeded 

 in obtaining the first seedling prize, but in our estimation Hedi.ey's Penelope, 

 which received the second prize, was a considerably better shaped bloom.] 



4. How do you define an amateur Dahlia grower? — [A person who does not 

 dispose of (or his servant for him) Dahlia plants for sale in any way, whether to 

 be paid for in money or goods. — Conductor.] 



5. Are amateurs allowed to show in the nurseryman's class ; that is, is it not 

 generally considered open to all P — [Certainly not ; the title is expressive enough. 

 — Conductor.] 



6. Are not Hero of Wakefield and Springfield Rival one and the same flower ? 

 — [There is a slight difference in them, the former being generally larger and 

 lighter, but the distinction is not sufficient to allow their being placed in the 

 same stand. — Conductor.] 



Lancaster. Charles Mitchell. 



Dahlias. — You will much oblge me by giving your opinion in the next 

 number of the Cabinet, whether Widnall's Argo or Cox's Yellow Defiance is the 

 best show flower. I cannot afford to purchase the two, and am therefore de- 

 sirous of having the best. 



Boston, Mar. 6, 1840. H. Cooper. 



[We saw six bluoms of each at the Stafford Hall show in September last, and 

 our minute of them stands thus. — Defiance, mure compact in the arrangement 

 of its petals, and a better centre, also the outline of the flower far superior, 

 forming as near a circle as any Dahlia fluwer we ever saw. Argo, a little larger 

 than Defiance, but thinner of petals, and consequently presented au imperfect 

 outline, by au angular formed space between the petals. The colour of Argo 

 was a shade deeper. — Conductor.] 



On Arnott's Stove. — I beg leave to ask the Rev. James Browne whether he 

 finds his Aruot's Stove diffuses its heat equally. At the beginning of April I 

 saw a house not above ten or twelve feet long, with the stove at one end, and 

 while the vines immediately over it had formed grapes, those at three feet dis- 

 tance had no appearance of breaking. 



Birmingham, May 16. J. G. 



ANSWERS. 



On awarding Prizes at Floricui.tural Shows. — In answer to an Old 

 Subscriber, I beg to mention one plan adopted by a Society of which I have been 

 a member, and which has been found to answer satisfactorily. The gardener 

 brings cards inscribed severally with the aiticles for competition, and delivers 

 them to one of the Committee who inserts the list in a book with the sender's 

 name ; a member puts the same number on the cards, and they are then placed 

 on the different articles. The Gardener, to prevent disputes, has also a card with 

 the same number delivered to him. After the prizes are awarded, the names of 

 the successful are written on the cards. A book ready ruled thus — 



will much assist your correspondent. The prize and number are inserted as the 

 judges award them, the subscriber's name afterwards, by reference to the other 

 book. However, to pievent the trouble of two books, the gardener may be re- 

 quired to bring a list with the sender's name, and these being filed, reference to 

 them will obviate the necessity of a book. It would certainly be rather hard for 

 any one assisting to arrange the plants, or fill up the book, to be prohibited 

 exhibiting for competition, and there must be, in my opinion, a little confidence 



