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at this time it is requisite you should have 
assistance. 
If you have not been accustomed to tie up 
flovirers of this sort, it will be advisable for you 
to practice on two or three inferior ones a day 
or two before your intended journey, lest you 
should have an accident with the first-rate 
flower you intend to shew. So soon as you 
have arrived at the house appointed for the 
exhibition, take them into a cool room, and 
after you have refreshed yourself (which you 
will allow is no bad hint) take the next oppor- 
tunity to clip the matting alt round with a pair 
of sharp scissars, to liberate them ; be careful 
in this last process : a little water also might 
seiwe to refresh them; place the pips handsome- 
ly with two very small slips of deal, and as near 
the form possible as they were before you 
tied them up, and in the course of two hours 
the pips (if a little relaxed) will have recovered, 
and become bold, firm, and stiff; but most 
likely they will have received no injury what- 
ever in travelling. By this cautious method 
of packing, I do not recollect ever having had 
the slightest accident ttdth my flowei's, and I 
practised it for years. 
The deal box was constructed to carry 
four pots, for fear of an accident ; but as two 
