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we have reluctantly placed on the list of promising sorts, Miss 

 Helen Wright^ Da7icing Maid and White Swaji. We shall try 

 them again and secretly hope that they may be able to hold a 

 place amidst increasingly severer competition. It is hard to pass 

 over New York and Gov. Matthews, which were first-class in 



83. — Miss Magee. The best that can be done with poor stock. 



every respect but too much like Mrs. R. W. E. Murray (re- 

 commended in Bulletin 112) to be mentioned except as worthy 

 substitutes. Gov. Matthews, it is true, is advertised as a pink, 

 and so were i^rj. Haj^ry Toler, Sibyl Kay e, 2in6.Rosy Emperatrice, 

 but they all speedily turned white and were well worth the price 

 as such, the two last, particularly, being an almost even choice 



