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photographs, dried specimens, and notes on botanical and 

 horticultural characters being taken. In color determinations, 

 the chart of F. Schuyler Mathews proved as satisfactory as with 

 the dahlias. It answered our purpose well, but the florists and 



86. — Lenawee. From a white flower eleven inches in diameter. 



cataloguers can hardly be expected to use the terminology of the 

 artist. In trying to help the raiser of novelties and the purchas- 

 ing florist, we shall this time try an experiment. Instead of 

 writing technical descriptions which are apt to be dreary and 



