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K. D. Smith, so Ihat we have been eimUIed to insert it in our Magazine, we 

 are under lasting: obligations to onr valued correspondent Snowdrcp. We 

 only received information of llie 'I'ulip being in possession of Mrs. Davkv, 

 relict of the late Mr. Thomas Davey, Florist, King's lload, Chelsea, a few 

 days before the public sale of the plants of that once spirited, ardent, and 

 successful cultivator of what is usually termed Florist Flowers. It will readily 

 be seen by our readers that the tlovver, when the Drawing was taken by Mr. 

 Smith, was in au advanced stage of blooming, and ou that account its colours, 

 shape, and other previously regular and deservedly esteemed properties this 

 flower possesses, was far from being as perfect as otherwise it would have ap- 

 peared if taken at a more early season. At the sale of Mr. Davey's effects 

 it was purchased, having two oBsetts, by John Goldham, Esq., of Pentonville, 

 London, for £72 10s. We have much pleasure and satisfaction to be enabled to 

 give a more particular account of the Tulip, as given by a cullivator of florist 

 ilower', and an intimate friend of the late Mr. Clark, who raised it. The 

 following account is token from Mr. Hogg's very excellent Supplementary 

 Treatise on the cultivation of flowers — (see Cover of the June Number of this 

 Magazine.) 



" Among the new Tulips raised from seed by our own florists, w hich have 

 been recently broken into colour, there are a few, beyond all doubt, of sterling 

 merit, and worthy of every encomium ; but 1 consider it the extreme of folly 

 to endeavour to create and inspire a longiiig for any flower, which, in all pro- 

 bability, will not be gratified for five or six years to come ; therefore, every 

 florist must not expect to find in me a willing herald, ready to sound the 

 praises of any such new flower. A really good flower wants no blazonry; it 

 best bespeaks its own praise, and the fame of it soon gets abroad; if this fail, 

 let those immediately interested undertake the oflice at the time they have 

 any bulbs to dispose of. Yet, out of respect for the well known veteran florist, 

 Mr. Uavey, of Chelsea, now in his seventy-fifth year, and in whose breast the 

 fancy for Tulips is as predominant as ever, who gave last Autumn one hun- 

 dred sovereigns to the executors of the late Mr. Clark, to eutitle him to the 

 possession of that loveliest of all Tulips, ' Miss Fanny Keinble,' 1 feel bound 

 to attempt a short description of this flower, which was the pride and boast of 

 its late owner, and which excited the envy and admiration of all the amateurs 

 who went to view it. This ' precious gem,' a Bybloemen Tulip, was raised 

 from one of Mr. Clark's seedling breeders, and broke into colour three years 

 ago; it has produced two ott'sets since, and is adapted to the second or third 

 row in the bed ; the stem is firm and elastic; the foliage full and broad, of a 

 lively green ; the cup large, aud of the finest form ; the white pure, and wholly- 

 free from stain ; the pencilling, ou the petals, is beautilully marked with black 

 or dark purple, and the feathering uniform aud elegant; it preserves its shape 

 to the last, the outer leaves not sinking from the inner; in a word, it is con- 

 sidered the first flow.'r of its class, and the best that has ever been produced 

 in England ; being now in the possession of Mr. Davey, it may be viewed 

 -.vheii in bloom at his garden, in the King's Road, Chelsea." 



PART III. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



QUERIES. 



Request of Snowdrop, &c. — Snowdrop asks if milk has been used to 

 plants? Evelyn mentions a MILK DIET as beneficial for plants, orange trees 

 if I recollect right, which are not quite healthy. 1 hope Snowdrop will give 

 the result of his experiments. — Would not re-pottiug the Cactus speciosissinius 

 in Spriug into rich soil, aud cutting ofl" the tops, tend to throw the plant into 

 flower T 



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