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We have long promised to introduce a new way of putting up cut blooms of Chrysanthemums for 
Exhibition, hut of course, said all, such a way would never look well, but admitted that it would be 
worth trying, and also said he would bo a bold fellow who dared to venture in public with a departure 
from the ordinary and original style. We determined, therefore, to present six boxes 4J feet long, 
18 inches wide, as per engraving above, before the Floral Committee at the Royal Horticultural 
Society, and to our delight and surprise before we had completed staging the flowers, all our 
Floricultural critics spoke aloud that our new system was the right and proper one, and there 
and then unanimously resolved that We should bo presented with the Gold Medal— but we never got 
it — probably from the scarcity of material to make it. 
Shirley Hibberd, Esq., Gardeners’ Magazine, Nov. 22, speaks thus “ At the last meeting of the 
Floral Committee, Messrs. Cannell & Sons showed a lot of cut flowers of all the sections mounted on 
green moss in the manner of roses. About nine-tenths of the cultivators of these flowers would find 
it impossible to follow the excellent example, but the practical lesson has its value, for if green moss 
is not everywhere obtainable there may be some suitable substitutes in the world that town amateurs 
could secure for the purpose. For the present we must jog trot with our green boards, and keep tho 
green moss in mind as a pleasant thing to dream about. ” 
At the great National Show at the Royal Aquarium, where we had exhibits extending 40 ft. in 
length, representing all the sections of Chrysanthemums, the entire public was in favour Of the 
system, the mechanical formal green flat boards near on the other side was frequently contrasted, 
and the difference was something immense. We all know that large glaring flowers without green, 
half their charm of beauty is lost, whereas by this system a natural green can be added and their 
own lovely foliage can be shown, which gives the whole an exquisite charm, and all societies must 
evontally offer prizes for the best blooms set up in a rose box in this manner : a box 4 ft. 6 in. long, 
back 6 in. high, front 4 in. high, made to exhibit twenty-four roses, will stage cither of the following 
■—twelve incurved (three to four blooms to the bunch), twelve recurved (ditto), twelve varieties of 
Japanese (ditto), twelve large Anemones (ditto), eighteen Pompons or eighteen Pompon Anemones 
Exhibition blooms (cut) are very expensive to grow, and good flowers cannot be supplied less than Is. each 
