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inches apart, in wide-mouth pots ; if a bell-glass is placed over them, 
they will strike all the sooner. After the cuttings are well rooted, 
plant them in 4-inch pots, as before recommended ; and, by proper 
treatment, they will make fine blooming plants in the ensuing spring. 
The following will be found to 
ties for the amateur to begin with 
Yellow and crimson grounds, curious 
veins and spots. 
Masterpiece . . Kinghom’s. 
Van Tromp . . . Ditto. 
Marquetry . . . Ditto. 
Exemplar . . . Ditto. 
Mrs. Woodhouse , Woodhouse’s. 
Mungo .... Standish’s. 
be twelve good and useful varie- 
White grounds, variously marbled 
and spotted. 
Julia .Kinghorn’s. 
Acme .Standish’s. 
Mendicant . . . Ditto. 
Duchess OF Athole Anderson’s. 
Jenny Lind . . Ditto. 
Mrs. Dunbar . . Ditto. 
To which may be added two or three of Plants’ Carnation striped, and 
a similar number of blotched and self varieties; but of the latter 
good ones are rather difficult to obtain, the cultivators having of late 
years directed their attention almost exclusively to the improvement 
of the marbled and spotted varieties, whilst the blotched and self 
flowers have been, in a great measure, lost sight of. However, a 
few of this class of flowers is almost indispensable in a collection ; 
and tends greatly to enhance the rich and varied appearance of a 
stand of this beautiful tribe of florists’ flowers. 
Perhaps the conductor of this journal will in due time give a 
descriptive list of the best varieties which have come under his notice 
during the last season.* In some future number, I may, with your 
permission, add a few remarks on raising seedlings. 
Tr/n%, Dec. 7, 1847. M. W. 
ON PACKING FLOWERS. 
There are few persons who have been accustomed to receive cut 
flowers by post, who have not experienced the mortification, on 
opening the box, of finding them all fallen to pieces, crushed, or 
otherwise injured. We therefore propose to give a few directions 
upon the subject; and believe that if they are attended to, both the 
sender and receiver will be spared the mortification alluded to. 
Always cut the flowers early in the cool of the morning, 
and when in their prime. Take a piece of cotton wool, wet it, and 
wring it out, then twist it about the stalk. If tin boxes are used, 
they must not have sharp corners, or they will be rejected at the 
Post-office ; but when properly made, they excel all others for the 
purpose in question. At the bottom of one of these place a piece of 
stout brown paper (if thin, double it), let this be well damped, then 
lay the flowers carefully in, placing a piece of silver or tissue paper 
between each, to prevent their bruising each other. Over all place a 
piece of the same paper, and on that a little cotton wool. Cover 
* This will be done in the next Number, accompanied by an illustration. 
