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

 Helen Wright, Dancing Maid and White Swan. 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.— iJ/w 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 J/>'5. Harry Toler , Sibyl Kay e , and Rosy Emperairice , 

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

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



