MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 213 



In the paper I sent you on the Pink, and which is given in pace 101, are the 

 detailed results of my practice — a method which has never failed to answer 

 my utmost expectations; and I am fully ])ersuaded, that if Innovator saw 

 the success I uniformly have uuder it, he would be so far satisfied, as to advise 

 me never to alter the mode adopted, and witness my statements justified by 

 ]iractieal results, i am also glad to be a'ule to refer to many persons who 

 have pursued the same method, and are equally satisfied with myself. I 

 should like Innovator to condesceud to try my plan, before he says anything 

 further about it. 



1 beg to thank Innovator for his good intentions and advice to me; but, 

 with all due deference to him, 1 hesitate not to say, that if I adopted his plan, 

 the result would be labour lost. The oil-cake would be much better given to 

 the cows — the cinders to the road — the lime to the masins — aud the earth 

 and dung to some far more suitable purpose, in the kitchen garden. If Inno- 

 vator virites for novelty alone, 1 hope you will prevent the appearance of 

 similar nonsensical remarks to those inserted in page 146, which appear to be 

 the result of his (stated) fifteen years' practice. Innovator there states, that 

 he grows Pink flowers each one foot in circumference! Astonishing!! If 

 Innovator will send me a few specimens, of the size named, I shall be highly 

 obliged; aud it will then remove the incredulity of which I at present am the 

 subject; and I shall be most ready to apologise for making the following 

 darin:; assertion, as that with which 1 close this article : — / affirm that Inno- 

 vator cannot ijrow a Fink blussum one foot in circiunference. 



Pitsmoor, Sept. 20ti'i, 1833. John Revell. 



Metropolitan Society. — Having by accident met with a Number of 

 your Fluricultural Cabinet a few weeks since, I was so much pleased with it, 

 that I ordered the whole from the beginning, and venture to express a hope 

 that you will not relax in your exertions to make it as extensively useful on 

 all subjects connected with Floriculture, as its past pages promise it shall be. 



In your September Number, 1 observe a letter from An Old F. H. S., who 

 has gratuitously unuertakeu to malign a Society about whose movements he 

 evidently knows but little, for the reason probably that he has been black- 

 balled on his ap))lication for ailmission, and is now rather sore about it. 

 " 'I'he galled jade will wince." 'J'his may also (uruish a reason for his attack 

 on the " pretended literateur," whose name he finds enrolled with his own on 

 the books of the " Horticultural Society." My object at present is, not to 

 defend individual eharacter, — for the party alluded to is, I have no doubt, 

 fully competent to the task of defending himself, — but only to set this Old 

 F. H. S. right as to the Metropolitan Society. He says, " Its meetings have 

 been always hitherto held in some tavern either in Gray's Inn lane, Cornhill, 

 or liillingsgate." Now I beg to inform him that its meetings never have been 

 held in either the one place or the other; that its members, if not as nume- 

 rous, are equally respectable as the one to which he says he belongs; and that 

 its object has been hitherto, and I trust always will be, to prevent such men 

 from becoming " Associates," as endeavour to convert an opportunity for 

 venting their s|)lcen against an individual into a vehicle for abusing a whole 

 Society. " \S'ith what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you again," 

 is a whidesoine piece of advice he would do well to remember. 



Not being able to judge, as you have not published it, whether the prospec- 

 tus sent you by your correspondent C'UITO is the first announcement of the 

 Society or its regular prospectus, 1 beg to enclose you one of the latter, and 

 ho|>e with him, that its transactions are not only "destined to form an inte- 

 resting and important feature in the pages of the Florist's Maijazine" but to 

 givu a tone to Floriculture generally throughout the king<lom, which the 

 fHlablishiiieiit of biuiilar Societies has accomplished in every other science. 1 

 nred hardly draw your attention to the distinguished jiatronage which this 

 Society already enjoys iu the first year of its existence; it will be sufficient to 

 ctate, that the two shown which have taken pla<e this season in London (at 

 the (.'Town and Aniliur Tavern, Strand,) were visited by several hundreds of 

 the noliility and gentry on each occasion, and that the collections of flowers 

 were unrivalled. Looking, therefore, at the circumstances attendant on its 



