This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V28", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
A correspondent calls our attention to the exhibit of Chrysanthemums made by Mr. P. Conlin, gardener to P. Roberts, Jr., Esq., who took the first prize for the best 25, and second for the best 12, in the amateur's list at Philadelphia. He thinks in our notice the most of these were overlooked. There were a large number of other excellent exhibitors whose names could not appear in our notice for want of room. As our Magazine goes over the whole world, and has as many persons subscribing in New York, Boston, Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati, New Orleans, and other places perhaps, as in Philadelphia, we cannot put in a long list of successful exhibitors in any one city, without putting in those from all. It is plain that this cannot be done. We never attempt it. All we try to do for our readers is to note a few points of excellence or novelty here and there that will be of as much interest to a reader in California as in Nantucket.
It would be very pleasant if we had space to do more, but we trust all our readers will appreciate the difficulties that surround this question. The local newspapers are the mediums through which full lists of successful exhibitors should appear.
 
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