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tion of high colour, such as cockscombs and the like. One of the most 
fashionable, at present, is the Kalosantkos splendens, of which as fine 
specimens may be seen in the streets as ever graced a conservatory. 
All the gayest-flowering pelargoniums and double-flowered myrtles, 
hydrangeas, balsams, heaths, tiger lilies, &c. &c., are plentiful. 
The prime cost varies from sixpence to half-a-crown; but the re¬ 
tailers chiefly barter them away for cast-off or faded garments of any 
kind, particularly those which have been worn by ladies; so that every 
lady of taste may every year furnish her windows or balcony with the 
gayest flowers at a very cheap rate. 
It is wonderful what a change and general love of flowers have been 
created by this mean and laborious kind of traffic; for it may be ob¬ 
served that there is scarce a parlour window to be seen that is not 
decorated more or less with beautiful flowers, obtained, perhaps, for a 
pair or two of old slippers, a shapeless bonnet, or a tattered dress. We 
mention these trifles merely for the purpose of showing how much com¬ 
mercial men depend upon a grade of auxiliaries which they would 
hardly acknowledge as such. We have heard of a florist who clears 
between two and three hundred pounds per anuum from off an acre 
and a half of ground, and who cares not whether he ever sees other 
customers than the “ basket-women” and purveyors of bouquets! But 
this traffic, small as it is, furnishes abundant proof that the love of 
flowers is on the increase among us, and, moreover, evinces an advance 
in mental refinement, which every friend to floriculture must rejoice 
to see. 
The same order of venders are also fruiterers, or itinerant green¬ 
grocers, when the season for gay flowers is over, and thereby earn a 
very fair living—in fact, realise a higher per centage upon their capital 
employed than do the producers of the fruit and flowers. 
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Edwards’s Botanical Register, continued by Professor Lindley. 
The September number contains 
1. Gilia tenuiflora. Slender-flowered Gilia. A hardy annual, 
raised from Californian seeds in the garden of the Horticultural 
Society, where it flowered, for the first time, in August, 1834. A 
single plant only was at that time raised, but it seeded plentifully, and 
is now not uncommon. 
It is altogether a very attenuated plant, and will make no great 
show in the flower-border ; but the flowers, small as they are, will bear 
