Summer Treatment, 
I am sorry to say, I have seen very great 
neglect, during the summer months, with this 
plant; and but little notice taken of it after 
the beauty of the bloom was completely over: — 
it is ungenerous not to weed, and supply it with 
water four or five times a week, if dry weather, 
during the end of May, the whole of June and 
July; as for the month of August, if it is a little 
neglected, the fine dews which fall at night 
will greatly assist it. I will venture to say, 
during the summer months, they will not re- 
■quire more than half the trouble that many 
<:’ommon geraniums, or some other green-house 
plants, would do ; and they are by no means 
to remain confined on the stage, or deprived 
of a full current of natural air. 
I shall now beg to give my opinion as to 
the best time calculated for the days on which 
to shew for prizes, in and about London ; I 
shall name four days ; hy reason, I subscribed 
to four annual shews. I have also calculated 
the average of seasons for seven or ten years. 
It is a very bad custom to fix your shew day 
too soon : it has been customary to have a 
sliew at Islington on the 23d of April ; this, in 
