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There seem to be at least four itaportant factors that have to do 

 with intensity of color, — quality of stock, time of rooting cut- 

 tings, food supply, and shading. How they are related and 

 which are the most important, it is impossible to say at present. 

 This much is clear, that mere vigor of plants is not all. We 

 never had better plants in any way than Rosy Emperatrice and 

 Sibyl Kaye, but the color simply showed itself, and was gone. 



85. — Rosy Emperatrice. Reduced Irom a ten-inch flower. 



Of the various combinations of red and yellow, two are recom- 

 mended, Pluto and Helen Owe7i. Perhaps their forms are not 

 entirely new, but Pluto was apparently ideal in all respects 

 within its natural limitations of form and color, and Helen Owen 

 was surely the second best of all the English varieties received as 

 regards vigor and productiveness. Six other combinations of 

 these colors were condemned for various reasons and five placed 



