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1'IVE MINUTES ADVICE TO A YOUNG FLORIST. 



every exhibition in the " Gardener's Gazette," also those published 

 in the York and other local papers ; and taking these as a standard, 

 I find my notes upon the flowers stand as follows : — 



In the first class (green-edged ones), Booth's Freedom and Oliver's 

 Lovely Ann have each taken eleven prizes. Page's Champion has 

 taken ten prizes. Warris's Blucher, seven prizes. Lee's Colonel 

 Taylor, and Howard's Nelson, five prizes each ; and Stretch's Alex- 

 ander, four prizes. 



In the second class (grey-edged ones), Kenyon's Ringleader has 

 taken twenty-two prizes ; Warris's Union, eight prizes ; Metcalfe's 

 Lancashire Hero, seven prizes ; Waterhouse's Conqueror of Europe, 

 Taylor's Ploughboy, Grime's Privateer, and Ryder's Waterloo, each 

 four prizes. 



In the third class (white-edged ones), Taylor's Glory has taken 

 fourteen prizes. Popplewell's Conqueror, twelve prizes. Lee's 

 Bright Venus, eight prizes. Hugh's Pillar of Beauty, six prizes. 

 Taylor's Incomparable, five prizes. Pott's Regulator, and Wood's 

 Delight, three prizes each : and, 



In the fourth class (Self's), Berry's Lord Primate has taken eight 

 prizes ; Hey's Apollo, seven prizes ; Whittaker's True Blue, six 

 prizes; Grime's Flora's Flag, five prizes; Redman's Metropolitan, 

 four prizes ; Schole's Ned Ludd, three prizes ; and Berry's Lord 

 Lee, two prizes. 



Now mark you ! I do not mean to say that these are the only good 

 flowers among this tribe of plants ; or that these are the only prizes 

 the above have taken this season. There may be, and no doubt 

 there are, many as good flowers as those I have named ; but better 

 there need not be ; and as I have grown most of them, and seen the 

 rest grown by others, I can testify of their merits and confidently 

 recommend them. There is, however, one of the kinds that you will 

 find very bad to keep when you get it, — I mean Lee's Colonel Taylor. 

 It is so impatient of wet, that unless you keep it constantly housed, 

 and also a piece of glass over it into the bargain, to secure it from 

 any droppings of water falling into the heart of the plant, it is ten 

 to one but you will lose it. I lately heard an experienced florist say, 

 that in the neighbourhood of Sheffield he could go bindfold to any 

 auricula house and point out every plant of Colonel Taylor that was 

 grown in it : and he afterwards told me that the above method of 



