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It is requisite there should be an article in 
every society, to prevent any flower, or pair 
of flowers, being shewn a second time the 
same year for a prize, provided either one or 
both have been shewn at a public meeting, and 
won the first prize. This is the custom in 
Lancashire, and a good one, for by mere acci- 
dent it may so happen that a florist has such 
a superior pair of flowers tliat season (and to 
which I have been an eye-witness) as to enable 
him to win all the first prizes at the ensuing 
shev^s, and deprive many, equally meritorious, 
of that honour ; besides, it will have another 
good effect, it will oblige many florists to keep 
a larger stock, and probably a better assort- 
ment, than they otherwise would do, as also to 
be more choice of their old established plants. 
The best Time for Shelving around London, 
will he nearly as under, viz. 
26th of April for the first, 
29th of April for the second, 
2d of May for the third, 
5th or 6th of May for the fourth. 
But if in the counti^, and where there is 
only one shew in or about that neighbourhood, 
