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in form and colour, but indistinct about tbe eye. Gliffe 

 (Dickson and Co.) is one of the largest Pansies grown ; it is 

 a little coarse, but will be a favourite. Lady Emily (D. and 

 L.) is fine in form and large, but the lines from the eye run 

 into the margin, which is a great drawback. Peacock (Dick- 

 son and Co.) ; Pluto (Kimberly), a large Lucy Neal like 

 flower ; Pompey (Hale), not large, but very good dark ; Adela 

 (Turner), yellow ; with Euphemia, Diadem, Alfred the Great, 

 and Chieftain ; Favourite is a nice yellow-ground flower in the 

 way of Supreme ; Black Diamond is perhaps the darkest, but 

 it is a bad grower ; and Sultan (Hooper), comprised the best 

 of those of 1851. If we have omitted any, it is because they 

 have not come under our notice. 



The following are not generally known or much out, but 

 they are very good, viz. Great Britain (Parker), fine yellow- 

 ground; Eoyal Visit (Dickson and Co.), straw-ground with 

 rich top-petals and margin, one of the best Pansies raised ; 

 Lord Walsingham (Thomson), yellow ground ; Africanus 

 (Dickson and Son), rich dark-mulberry, large, and of good 

 form. 



Of old kinds that can be depended on, and which have 

 flowered most satisfactorily with us during the past season, we 

 would mention Blanche, Constantine, Duke of Perth, Lucy 

 Neal, Ophir, Polyphemus, Rainbow, Sambo, White Sargeant, 

 Addison, Duke of Norfolk, Elegant, France Cycole, Juventa, 

 Keepsake, Mr. Beck, Ophelia, B. Burns, Sir P. Sydney, 

 Supreme, Sir J. Franklin, Thisbe, Aurora, Almanzor, Caro- 

 line, Mrs. Beck, Mrs. M. Hamilton, Penelope, Queen of 

 England, and Sir B. Peel. 



Any seed that has been saved should be sown at once 

 under glass, but with plenty of air. 



Cuttings of choice kinds should still be put in, and planted 

 out as soon as they have become rooted. 



ON ROSE-STOCKS. 



A WORD or two perhaps may not be unwelcome to your readers on 

 the subject of Rose-stocks, particularly as the time has now arrived 

 when the chief budding must be done. Presuming that the stocks 

 have been properly treated, such as have not already been worked 

 with a pushing-bud ought now to be fit to undergo the important 

 transition from the wild to the cultivated Rose. 



I prefer to work with a pushing-bud all kinds of summer Roses, 

 i. e. those which bloom but once in a season ; for they will then gene- 



