Flowers in Pots.

per pot 38,880 Moss Roses at 4d. £648 38,880 China ditto „ 2d. 324 38,800 Fuschias „ 3d. 485 12,850 Geraniums and Pelargoniums (of all kinds) „ 3d. 160 ------ Total annually £1,617

The returns give the following aggregate amount of street expenditure:--

£ Trees and shrubs 1,388 Cut Flowers 6,277 Flowers in pots 1,667 Flower roots 2,867 Branches 2,774 Seeds 200 ------- £15,173

From the returns we find that of “cut flowers” the roses retain their old English favouritism, no fewer than 1,628,000 being annually sold in the streets; but locality affects the sale, as some dealers dispose of more violets than roses, because violets are accounted less fragile. The cheapness and hardihood of the musk-plant and marigold, to say nothing of their peculiar odour, has made them the most popular of the “roots,” while the myrtle is the favourite among the “trees and shrubs.” The heaths, moreover, command an extensive sale,--a sale, I am told, which was unknown, until eight or ten years ago, another instance of the “fashion in flowers,” of which an informant has spoken.