T H E F L 0 R I S T. 
A FEW LINES 
FROM 
THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THIS WORK. 
For the first time I have to apologise, on the part of the Pro- 
prietors, for the absence of their monthly coloured plate. It 
has been their desire to figure some fine seedlings of the old 
florists’ flowers; and it is owing to the adverse nature of 
the season alone that this has not been done. No novelties 
in Polyanthuses have reached us. Messrs. Dicksons, of Brix- 
ton, have exhibited a fine seedling Auricula—“ Dr. Horner 
but, with every wish to oblige us, they preferred its not being 
figured in the present season. Thus we lost two good sub¬ 
jects. Seedling Pansies of a sufficiently good character are 
only just coming to hand. Of one we have taken a coloured 
memorandum. A seedling Tulip would have appeared this 
month, but we could not get a sufficient quantity coloured in 
time for publication: it will appear in No. VIII. We have 
in hand a plate of seedling Ranunculuses, also one of Fancy 
Pelargoniums. A seedling Verbena and Pink, with some 
Heaths, are also in memorandum. To supply in some mea¬ 
sure the deficiency of a coloured illustration, we have intro¬ 
duced a woodcut of the gardens at Chiswick, taken upon the 
occasion of the last May exhibition. It is difficult to find a 
point of sight from which the whole of the tents could be 
introduced ; but we think it will enable our country friends, 
who have not had an opportunity of attending the interest¬ 
ing exhibitions of the Horticultural Society, to form a toler¬ 
ably good idea of the same. The coloured plate of the present 
number is supplied by myself. It is our first attempt upon 
zinc. It represents a curious race of malformed flowers, 
with which almost every raiser of seedling Pelargoniums 
is acquainted. The one in the centre, “ Harlequin,” is 
drawn from a two-year old plant, which was exhibited at 
NO. VII. N 
