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Beesley's New Metropoli- | Vett's King 



tan I Porter's Queen 



Faulkner's Hannibal | Doctor Syntax 



Mount Pleasant | 



Next in order of time came Thomas Hogg, formerly 

 a schoolmaster at Paddington, but afterwards a florist 

 at the same place. In 1812 he published a "Prac- 

 tical Treatise on the Carnation, Auricula, &c.," full 

 of excellent directions for their culture, but it is 

 equally well known of him, as he says it was of Mad- 

 dock, that he excelled in the cultivation of other 

 flowers (the Carnation, Pink, and Piccotee) more 

 than in that of the Auricula. He says, in his " Sup- 

 plement" to that treatise, published in 1833, that he 

 aided James Emmerton in the writing and compila- 

 tion of his " Plain Treatise on the Culture of the 

 Auricula," first published in 1816. 



Emmerton was a florist at Barnet, and an enthu- 

 siastic admirer of this flower ; and, when he first pa- 

 tronised it, he says there were not more than a dozen 

 persons near London who were favourably known as 

 cultivators of the Auricula. He is the best authority 

 we know on the management of this flower, excepting 

 in the preparation of the compost for it. That which 

 he recommends is, beyond all doubt, too rich and 

 stimulating. 



Mr. Hogg observes, upon this point, that the in- 

 gredients which Emmerton recommends, for the most 



