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THE LADIES' FLORAL CABINET. 
Capicine, Adam , Isabille Sprunt, Duchess de Brabrant, 
Comtesse Riza du Parc, Andre Schwartz, Beauty of 
Stapleford, Duchess of Westminster, Yellow Tea, Alfred 
Colomb, IPerle de Lyon, Wm. Francis Bennett, popu¬ 
larly known as the $3,750 Rose, and many varieties of 
Moss Roses. In all this vast number there was not to 
be seen an inferior flower, not even one of mediocrity, 
but each and every one was shown in its most exquisite 
beauty. And when such choice Roses were to be seen 
by the thousands, as they were there, the magnificence 
of the exhibition was astounding. 
A large group of standard Roses, in pots arranged in 
a pyramidal form, the centre being fully eight feet high, 
was a prominent feature of the exhibition. In this 
collection was to be found all of the leading hybrid 
perpetuals, and, had they had a personal interest in the 
exhibition, they could not have appeared to a better 
advantage. Although many of the flowers were not 
up to the high standard of those in vases on the tables, 
yet, we never saw standards in greater perfection. A 
La France, with fifteen perfect flowers and three times 
as many buds, was certainly no mean object to look 
upon. 
The Rose was by no means the only flower that graced 
the occasion. 
“And what a wilderness of flowers 1 
It seemed as though from all the bowers 
And fairest fields of all the year, 
The mingled spoils were scattered here.” 
The Narcissus, a very extensive family of well-known 
and popular garden-flowers, was well represented by 
several of the best-known varieties, as were the white, 
scarlet and yellow Tulips. En masse, as these were, 
nothing could have given more pleasure. The Violets, 
including that desirable novelty, Swanley White, are 
nearly as great favorites as the Rose, and they were 
never shown to better advantage, both in bunches, and 
as flowering plants. Some of the pots wore masses of 
bloom. Carnations, of all the varieties worthy of cul¬ 
tivation were to be seen in profusion. The Lilacs, both 
the Persian white and purple, made very showy pot- 
plants. The gardener’s skill in cultivating this, the 
loveliest of all shrubs, so that a plant not two feet high, 
in an eight-inch pot, can be made to furnish half a 
dozen trusses of bloom, is something remarkable. The 
Callas were in perfection, beautiful and pure, but ne¬ 
glected and unnoticed, because “fashion” has selected 
some other of Flora’s forms for admiration. Lilies, in 
clumps, were abundant, and remarkably good. One 
ten-inch pot of Longiflorum had a number of stems, 
on which were thirty-five buds and flowers, as fine a 
specimen as we ever saw on exhibition. There were 
also Pansies, Spiraea, Lilies-of-the-Vallev, French Mar- - 
guerites, Hyacinths, Cinerarias, Bouginvillia, English 
Wall Flower and Gardenia (Cape Jassemin) in pots, all 
really fine specimen plants. The Gardenias were worthy 
of special mention, as the plants were specimens of 
health and vigor, and well furnished with flowers, some 
of which were as large as Camellias. The new forms 
or varieties of Mignonette were noticeable because of 
its size, freshness and fragrance; single heads, six 
inches long, and nearly two in diameter were very 
common. 
THE ARRANGEMENT 
of the plants and flowers, and the decoration of the 
hall with Palms in variety, Ficus elastica, Crotons, 
Dracaenas, Bay-trees, etc., etc., was absolutely perfect, 
and reflected great credit on Mr. Klunder’s skill in 
floral decoration. The base of each group of plants 
was of the most beautiful of all Ferns, the Adiantum 
cuneatum, hundreds of which plants, a foot or more 
in diameter, were used for this purpose. All the pots 
of larger plants of every variety, as well as all other 
unsightly objects, were completely hidden from view by 
these beautiful forms. The walls were paneled and 
tastefully draped with Smilax, and other plants suit¬ 
able for such purposes. 
This enterprise of Mr. Klunder shows plainly what 
well-directed individual taste and labor will accomplish 
in contrast to the workings of a Horticultural Society, 
where the president has his views, the secretary his, 
and the executive and arrangement committees theirs, 
and all in conflict, the result being an evolution of bad 
feeling and discontent on all sides; while in this in¬ 
dividual enterprise, where there were more really good 
flowers than we have ever before seen on exhibit, there 
was nothing but the most perfect harmony and good 
feeling with all present. At this exhibition everyone 
was judge, and no one found fault with the awards. 
Mr. Klunder was the only one that was entitled to a 
premium, and that he received—the golden medal of ex¬ 
cellence, for good taste, good flowers, and a good word 
to all who love flowers, that are as Wilberforoe said, 
“ the most beautiful gifts of God’s goodness.” 
HOW I MISUSED MY DAPHNE. 
I have often seen the inquiries, “What shall I do 
with my Daphne?” “What is the matter with my 
Daphne ?” 
When my plant was of moderate size we used to have 
it in the sitting-room, where it was nursed, watched 
and watered with great care, and were rewarded by a 
growth of flowers, very fragrant, very pretty, but of 
very short duration, so that in two or three weeks it 
was a green bush simply; then came the yellow leaves 
dropping off,which now I think was from too much wet 
or heat. In time, as the plant grew it occupied too much 
space in a small sitting-room, and so was reluctantly 
stowed away in the cellar with the Hydrangea and the 
winter vegetables. Instead of its getting put out by 
such a retirement, early in December came the usual 
flowers as pretty and as fragrant as though in the most 
favored place in the conservatory. Although lighted by 
only one window, and that eighteen feet distant, it has 
bloomed for the last five years as freely as ever; and 
when the weather gets warm, the men will be called 
and it will be rolled out and still left in its tub until 
next fall, to be again returned to its winter quarters 
where it now, at this present writing, March 26th, is 
covered with fine trusses of bloom, and has been since 
December. Time seems to have but little effect on them, 
but when the weather is warm and the plant is taken to 
the light and air, the flowers will all be gone in three or 
four days. N. Hallock, Creedmoor, N. Y. 
