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THE FLORIST’S JOURNAL. 
flower-gardens, lie guards himself against it being supposed that 
he would recommend the same style in planting a park, lest it 
should cause the reintroduction of the odious feature of round 
clumps , which disfigure so many of our modern parks, and which 
have been deservedly condemned. 
This style of planting in circles being the newest idea and 
advice offered on the subject, it is fit that the readers of this 
Journal should be apprised of the same. 
Chelsea, 
February 17, 1841. 
NEW AND CHOICE FLOWERS AND ORNAMENTAL 
PLANTS ON SALE. 
We resume this department of our Journal; but owing to the 
great length of some of the original articles, we must, for the 
present month at least, confine it to rather narrow limits. 
MR. CATLEUGH, OF HANS-STREET, SLOANE-STREET, CHELSEA, 
Has a choice collection of Geraniums (Pelargoniums,) Calceo¬ 
larias, Heartsease, Chrysanthemums,Verbenas, Fuchsias, Picottees, 
and Auriculas, many of which are of the most improved sorts, 
and raised by the most approved breeders, especially what may 
be called amateur breeders. And here we may, in passing, 
remark, that amateurs who have the requisite capital, facilities, 
and spirit, may render vast service to the floral art by obtaining 
new and choice varieties, and distributing them to the trade for 
propagation, and the supply of the public. We feel convinced 
that an amateur may do much more in this way than is in the 
power of nurserymen, generally speaking. The trade of breeding 
plants, though it has been greatly improved, and is now im¬ 
proving rapidly every day, has not yet arrived at that stage in 
which the division of labour can be applied to it in the most 
efficient manner. The nurseryman who supplies the public must 
have a variety; and that variety must consist, in almost every 
