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brought forward asters taken up from the border and potted — 

 ■whole plants, flowers and all — had cut off these flowers and 

 shown them, with a few more, in bottles on a small stand, they 

 might have gained a very favorable judgment ; as it was, they 

 had their labor (ticket included) for their pains. 



Take another example. The Ten "Week Stock or Double 

 Gilliflower, is a plant every way deserving of the attention of 

 cultivators. It can be raised from seed at any time of year by 

 proper management, and all through the summer and autumn 

 with very little management at all. In color it rivals the 

 Verbena, claiming, like that, every shade of red, purple and 

 white, and only failing to afford the pure blues on one hand, 

 and the decided yellows on the other. Beauty of form it em- 

 inently possesses ; if not in the separate flower, at least in the 

 cluster, and peculiarly so in the entire plant ; while its hardi- 

 ness is such, that we have known most resplendent boquets 

 gathered from it on Thanksgiving Day. 



Now had the pains that was laid out on inferior boquets, 

 been taken to cut and exhibit this fine and worthy flower, we 

 should have had a show finer by a large per centage ; and per- 

 haps have been obliged to complain of the scanty appropria- 

 tion of our funds more loudly than we have now any con- 

 science for. But so far from this, a single dish contained all 

 the Gilliflowers on exhibition, so far as we discovered, and 

 those, though very fine, were too scanty to properly represent 

 a flower so fit for autumnal honors. 



Let us revert to the Dahlia for illustration of another point. 

 Personal rivalry, local feeling, or some other cause, (we neither 

 know nor care what,) has created a pleasant competition in the 

 production of this flower between the upper and lower parts 

 of the County. Salem and Beverly on one side vie with Law- 

 rence on the other ; and the result is the display of blooms by 

 both with hardly a flaw of character. Now however much a 

 generous emulation may be praised, or a sectional jealousy 

 deprecated, we yet rejoice in a good result from either ; and 

 something of the sort has given the Dahlia a perfection not yet 



