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The amateur, who loves everything that grows, feels no fail- 

 ures. To the florist, disappointment means dollars. What does 

 the lover of plants care for shipping qualities or the lastingness of 

 cut flowers? The enthusiast's standards do not know the ox- 

 idizing touch of trade! 



To the introducer and to the florist, we merely report that the 

 varieties named below seemed failures to us for reasons that we 

 will gladly communicate privately, just as we are glad to furnish 

 an account of the behavior of any collection of numbered seed- 

 lings, which may be sent us. No variety has been dropped for 

 any one reason, and particularly not for misbehavior during one 

 season, for such failure is sometimes a matter of variety and some- 

 times a matter of individual plants. We give in brief compass 

 some hints as to the most obvious defects in the varieties named 

 below. To avoid multiplication of words, numbers are used in- 

 stead of names : 



Lacking size i6, 19, 91 ; poor habit 32, 39, 58, 68 ; lacking productiveness 

 18 ; too much center 6, 39 ; raggedness 7 ; coarse and heavy 1 1 ; seasonal 

 (not early or late as advertised) 16, 91, 35, 65 ; crimson pink (color unstable, 

 or badly laid on) 3, 5, 6, 7, 11, 19, 24, 35, 37, 57, 65, 75, 85 ; foreign to Amer- 

 all the Chinese ; dark colors unpopular for cut flowers 43, 55, 58 ; red-and- 

 ican taste 49, and yellows more popular in England than here 22, 67, 70, 83 ; 

 no improvement over old sorts known to us 22, 39, 41, 43, 52, 59, 65, 68, 70, 

 73. 77, 78, 83, 91, 100. 



7. Alonzo. 



3. Amaranth. 



5. d^Ang-leterre, Reine. 



6. Antoinette. 



16. Battles, Mrs. H. H. 



II. Biddencope,J. 



18. Budd, Gov. 

 22. Claretice. 



19. Consuelo. 



24. Dalskov, Miss Agnes £-. 



32. Edible. 



35. Glory of the Pacific. 



39. Golden Harvest, 



37. Great Port. 



43. Headlight. 



41. Hurrell, Henry^ 



49. Jones, M. H. J. 



52. Keim,J. P. 



55. Lear, Miss M. » 



59. Liberty. 



58. Looinis, Adelaids, 



57. Louise. 



67. Mars. 



