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sightly ? Then why not more freely introduce them ? I am very glad 

 to see that the cultivation of" this charming class of plants is become 

 so popular — aud justly so — for I am sure that no admirer of nature 

 can pass one of those most unobtrusive of all her works without feeling 

 a thrill of delight, and which must lead — as has elsewhere been justly 

 said — 



" Through Nature up to Nature's God I" 



It is not my province or intention, here, to write a treatise upon the 

 cultivation of those plants, which has so often and ably been done by 

 far wiser heads than mine ; but I merely throw out these hints, to 

 endeavour to show what a very wide field there is open for the more 

 natural cultivation of them ; sufficient, I trust, to induce many of your 

 readers to find some nook or corner where they can try " effect ;" and 

 if once a trial be made, I will vouch there will be no stopping short, for 

 be it understood there is no such word as finality admitted into the 

 gardening vocabulary. 



Ribston Park, Wetherhy, York. Thos. W. Abbott. 



NOTES ON THE NEW PANSIES OF 1856. 



Jeannie (Downie & Laird). — A very smooth dark puce self, of fine 

 substance. Bottom petal rather small. 



Indian Chief (Dickson k Go?) — Rich purple self; form and substance 

 extra ; size small. 



Glory (Hampton). — Pure white self, very smooth and flat ; fine 

 eye, substance rather thin, form good, full size. 



Defiance (Hampton). — ^Yellow self, of no value whatever as a show 

 flower. 



Mrs. Dodwell (Fisher). — The best yellow self out; imperfect in 

 form ; still, all points considered, the best in its class. 



Gem (Syme & Middlemas). — A very smooth beautiful dark self; 

 in its composition perfect, but with me under-sized. 



Red Rover (Schofield). — A very distinct yellow-ground variety, 

 beautiful in every point, rather under-sized. 



Cyrus (Dickson). — Rich chrome yellow ground, bronze crimson 

 belting ; large, smooth, and of fine form. 



Rubens (Dickson & Co.) — Rich yellow ground, clear bronze belting. 

 A fine sort, but a bad doer. 



Charles Napier (Dickson & Co.) — Yellow ground, rich puce belting, 

 very fine and very small. 



Splendid (Schofield). — A worthless yellow-ground variety. 



Earl of Cardigan (Holland). — A good pale yellow-ground flower, 

 much in the style of Pandora (Hunt), on which it is a slight improve- 

 ment. 



Empress Eugenie (Stuart).— A white-ground flower, of no value 

 whatever. 



Princess (Dickson & Son).— White and clear blue purple ; large, 

 smooth, and of fine form. Deficient in substance. 



