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recommended brick -work for your choice 
plants. 
After your bloom is completely over, I must 
beg to recommend you not to be too free with 
tlie Avater-pot — to say more on this is quite un- 
necessary. — But above all, while your flowers 
are in their height of blooming, never, if pos- 
sible, suffer them even to get chilled. If so, 
it is ail over, and you cannot sheAV for prizes that 
season. — I am sure there is no chance of your 
winning a ten-guinea sih^er cup — which I did 
on the 25th of April, 1805, at Islington — it was 
given by Phineas Borritt, Esq,; nineteen or 
twenty pair of flowers Avere sheAvn on that 
day. In fact, I had the three first prizes at 
three different shews that year. The second 
prize AA^as Avon at the Greyhound, at DuUvich. 
For these last fourteen or fifteen years, I sub- 
scribed to four or five sheAVS, and always had 
a prize of some sort, either first, second, or 
third. My mode of blooming Avas always suc- 
cessful — good compost and good management 
are not to be beaten very easily. 
As there are a number of different sorts of 
iVuriculas which produce a multiplicity of pips, 
Avhile others produce a less quantity, all those 
kinds of flowers vou intend to speculate in for 
