ON EXHIBITING FLORISTS 3 FLOWERS, 
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as was his modesty, must have been felt as peculiarly honourable, 
even by himself. 
About the year 1836, he was appointed Professor of Botany 
in King’s College ; which situation he held jointly with the Libra¬ 
rian and Curatorship of the Museum. In the mean time he got 
married; after which he resided in the house of the Linnsean 
Society in Soho Square ; but he never had any family. 
He was seized with his last illness, in a serious form, in the end 
of April, or the beginning of May. It may be regarded as a 
general breaking up of the system, which assumed a topical cha¬ 
racter, and defied the skill of the most eminent men. Though 
latterly his disease became a very painful one, he bore it with sin¬ 
gular equanimity of temper, until delivered both from the evil and 
the good of this world, on the 8th of December, 1841. On the 
15th of the same month he was borne to his resting-place in St. 
Agnes’ Cemetery ; his remains being followed to that mansion of 
repose by Mr. Brown, Sir William J. Hooker, Mr. Bennet, Mr. 
Anderson, Mr. Smith, and various other first-class botanists, who, 
no doubt, felt the blank which had been made in their circle. Of 
his character, we need add nothing to what has been already 
embodied in this brief notice. 
ON EXHIBITING FLORISTS’ FLOWERS. 
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FLORIST’S JOURNAL. 
1 hat the present age is one of improvement in all departments 
of horticulture, the splendid annual exhibitions in different parts 
of the kingdom fully testify; yet, from practical observation, it 
forcibly occurs to me, that an evil exists in many Societies, in the 
mode of exhibiting florist^’ flowers, which requires immediate 
amendment; and I therefore trust the consideration of the subject 
will be taken up by committees of every Society where this practice 
is permitted, to the end that it may be fully discussed in all points. 
It is the prevailing custom at various shows to judge flowers in 
classes; and in many places where this plan exists, the same variety 
of flower is not permitted to be exhibited more than once in its 
