114 FLORAL EXHIBITIONS. 
THE SWEET VIOLET. 
Ir is such an universal favourite that it should always be sown, or 
planted, near walks, clumps, at the edges of belts and plantations, in 
wildernesses, in large borders under the trees by the sides of drives up 
to a mansion, and in all the otherwise neglected places about an estate. 
The air should be redolent of its sweets, it should occupy a space in 
all the shady nooks, for the drawing-room should be supplied each 
morning with abundance of its flowers, and no place where they will 
grow should be without them; once sown they require no more care 
in those waste places, because every plant that thrives will spread 
enormously, and if they be not burned up with the sun they are sure 
to flourish. How many fine estates abound in shady walks and drives, 
totally neglected as to flowers and other attributes of a garden, where 
one day to turn the soil here and there, and bestow a few plants or 
seeds of the Violet, would give a charm to many wealthy people 
wholly unknown. The general disposition to do no more than they 
are obliged to do, operates greatly against the preservation of those 
natural beauties which, however insignificant in themselves, yield a 
charm in combination with other features. A bed of Violets near a 
mansion, surrounded by gorgeous exotics and fragrant aromatic plants, 
might indeed seem nothing, if not out of place; but in the retired 
shades of the richly-wooded domain, with nothing but the humble 
Daffodil for its companion, the Violet asserts its empire and maintains 
its sway. Never then neglect the Violet. ‘The chief sorts are single 
and double-flowering, white, purple, dark blue, and pale blue. 
FLORAL EXHIBITIONS. 
Tuer Roya Sournu Lonpon Society held their first exhibition for 
the season, on the 17th instant, at the Horns Tavern, Kennington. 
The stove and greenhouse plants exhibited, were, in every instance that 
we noticed, well grown specimens of their kinds, and reflected much 
credit to the growers. The florists’ flowers were more numerous than 
we recollect to have seen on any previous first show. The Cinerarias 
were numerous, well grown, and in the seedlings there were some 
valuable acquisitions to this charming tribe of flowers. 
In Avrico.as, the first prize was obtained by W. Ginger, Esq., for 
the best pair, Taylor’s Glory and Page’s Champion. J. Chapman, 
Esq., second, for Dickson’s Duke of Wellington and Hogg’s Waterloo. 
Mr. Edwards was third, with Waterhouse’s Conqueror of Europe and 
Cleggs’s Crucifix. For four varieties, W. Ginger, Esq., again received 
the first prize for Kenyon’s Ringleader, Stretch’s Emperor Alexander, 
Dickson’s Duke of Wellington, and Taylor’s Glory. J. Chapman, 
Eisq., the second, for Hogg’s Waterloo, Hedge’s Britannia, Water- 
house’s Conqueror of Europe, and Smith’s Waterloo. Mr. Edwards 
was third, with Dickson’s Unique, Page’s Champion, Waterhouse’s Con- 
queror of Europe, and Clegg’s Crucifix. Mr. James Dickson exhi- 
bited four magnificent plants, Dickson’s Duke of Wellington and 
