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gros<:. Tht-y are admirably adapted for Georgiuas, Roses, &c., or any plants 

 that grow in the open giomul. The bevel part may be planted, and receive 

 a number or name at pleasure. They will never decay, and rarely break. 

 They may be made any size to order. If your correspondent, T. J. Risiii', 

 would favour me with his address, I would answer his Query. 



WallinijJ'ord. Jos. Trso. 



I think Mr. T. Risny's better plan would be, — and it is advice which 

 experience has enabled me to give, — before he purchases any of the florist's 

 flowers he mentions in No. II., p. 47, of your Florist's Magazine, to see them 

 first in bloom, and choose for himself. By this means he will please his eye, 

 and accommodate the prices to his pocket. He should at all events be informed 

 that it is not always a criterion of the excellence, that a high price is asked for 

 a new or scarce plant. Florists are not more honest than other men, and I 

 am sorry to say that it is by no means an uncommon occurrence to get a very 

 ditl'erent plant for the one ordered, or a run flower in the place of a perfect 

 one. To guard against these occurrences, 1 should recommend him to go to 

 the gardens of the following highly respectable florists, with whom, if a 

 mistake does happen, it is really a mistake, and not a designed deception. He 

 will pay a little higher than at some other florists I could mention, but he will 

 have the satisfaction of knowing that the flower he purchases is true to its 

 name. Vot Auriculas, t.o Hogg, of Paddington ; and Groom, of Walworth. 

 For Carnations, Picotecs, and Pinks, to Hocc, who has by far the finest 

 collection near London ; Davet, of Chelsea; and Groom. For Ranunculuses, 

 to the Rev. .Joseph Tvso, of AVallingford ; and Groom. For Tulips, to 

 Groom, and Davev. For Dahlias, to Dennis, Chelsea. For Hyacinths, 

 Narcissuses, /^-c, to CnARLWOOD, Coveut garden; Noble, Fleet street; and 

 Flanagan & Co., Rlansion-house-street. Pobjantlmses he will meet with in 

 his travels to the above places. Should, however, Mr. Risur live in the 

 country, he will do well to get the catalogues of the above flo.-ists, and he will 

 there sec the flowers classed in a way that will give him a sufBcient idea of 

 the colours, &c. For I think it would not be fair to your other subscribers to 

 occupy your pages with the names and descriptions of 168 flowers, and after 

 all it would be useless ; as perhaps Mr. RisiiY would shudder at the idea of 

 Riving 200 or 300 guineas for the above KJS flowers; as a catalogue of the 

 best flowers, amounting to that sum, or more, might easily be made. I should 

 lurther recommend him Hogg and Main's works on the management of the 

 flowers he wishes to grow. Snowdrop. 



P.S. — I like No. II. very much ; your lists are very good and valuable. 



April Hth, 1833. 



Note.— We did not perceive the error of the Pinguicula being named wrong, 

 till a remedy was too late for that month. 'J'he reception of the remarks 

 of our correspondent caused us to delay till we inserted them. The 

 florists' flowers will be given— (see Cover of our last Number.)— Cond. 

 tiL'ERV. — I was much pleased to see in the first and second Number of the 

 Floricultural Cabinet, several of your readers make enquiry for a knowledge of 

 the treatment and culture of flowers, and more so with the readiness of those 

 who arc in possession of superior knowledge in those tactics to come forward 

 and make known, through your page.*, the result of experience so valuable to 

 many of your readers; but with none have I been pleased so much as that on 

 the treatment of the Ranunculus, by Mr. Cahu; there are few growers of that 

 beautiful flower but will be pleased with the remarks of your correspondent. I 

 hope he, or some of your readers, will be able to give me the information I 

 debirc on the treatment of the 'I'ulip. I have now two beds in my gaidjD, 

 only a narrow walk between them : one bed, very good, or named sorts, is 

 cankered, and the foliage quite withered, with scarcely a bloom upon it; the 

 bed next to it is mixturen, or common varieties, and looking very well. ] had 

 a inoi.1 beautiful bloom on the same beds lasl year, with the same treatment 

 that I have practised this year. I have exaniiiud some of the decayed parts, 

 and found an innninerable quantity of small wire-worms closely adhered to the' 

 conkcrcd part of the foliage. An old grower, with whom I "am acquainted, 

 iav», he bclievc»j ood sorts are more subject to disease than common varieties 



