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HINTS TO EXHIBITORS. 
HINTS TO EXHIBITORS. 
In the leisure of the winter months, it is a good custom to 
compare progress, and make arrangements for improved practice 
and more extended endeavours in the next season, for, without a 
due settlement of the necessary preliminaries at a proper time, 
an irremediable confusion arises, of itself sufficient to mar the 
most strenuous efforts. The exhibitor’s first concern is, there¬ 
fore, now to examine the merits of his collection, and endeavour 
by judicious additions to strengthen his prospect of future suc¬ 
cess ; and, in order to assist as far as possible in this important 
consideration, we have prepared the following remarks, noted 
down in our visits to the principal Metropolitan Exhibitions of 
the past season. 
A want of novelty may perhaps be observable in the lists sub¬ 
joined, but our design is rather to show the novice what he 
should possess to be certain of having a really useful selection, 
than, by rushing into an extended recommendation of new and 
untried things, bring disappointment and discouragement on his 
best efforts. The plants mentioned may, therefore, be regarded 
as such only that have an established reputation, and have been 
generally adopted; indeed, a great proportion are esteemed so 
highly as to be present in nearly every group, and a few at every 
show. The figures attached to the several names are intended 
to represent the proportionate number of times the plant was ex¬ 
hibited last year, from which a pretty correct idea of its estimated 
consequence may be inferred. They must not, however, be taken 
for the exact number, but in a relative sense, for occasionally a 
dozen specimens of the same plant are seen. This, together with 
their repeated appearance, has been considered in the forming of 
our average. 
Among miscellaneous plants the following were most pro¬ 
minent : 
Aphelexis humilis, 2, splendens, spectabilis, grandiflora, 3. 
Achimenes longiflora, 3 ; grandiflora, 3 ; patens, multiflora, 2. 
Azalea Indica alba, 6; ledifolia, variegata, 5 ; leucomegiste, late- 
ritia, 4 ; phoenicia, 4; Banielsiana, 2; fulgens, 2. 
Allamanda cathartica, 2. 
