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plants (one of each sort) are only required to 
be shewn, you can make your own election as 
to the number. The size of the deal box was 
fi'om 18 to 20 inches high in the clear, on ac- 
count of the pot being 8 inches high; it had 
four partitions, each of a size sufficiently large 
to hold a single pot, with a little spare room to 
admit some moss between for wedging the pot 
(juite tight, with doors on each side to lock up ; 
so that my flowers were always secure fiom 
being inspected before they were exhibited fov 
the different prizes. By no means convey these 
flowers in a jockey,, or what is called a taxed 
cart; an instance seldom occurred but that 
they received more or less injury in such a 
vehicle, and frequently could not be shewn at 
all. The best way to convey them is in the 
front of a single-horse chaise, placed between 
your knees, and it is most advisable to go 
at the rate of seven or eight miles an hour, 
at which pace the springs of the chaise would 
act more freely, and the flowers be less 
likely to shake than if you travelled at a 
slower rate. I have conveyed flowers in 
this expeditious manner for years to three 
or four annual shews without the slightest 
injm 7 ; as a proof of it, I carried the same 
flowers in this way to two diflerent shews, 
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