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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST, 



[DECt.MDER, 



mo, I can o-ivo it no other name. It is a toworing bunch of crescent -formod bracts, at least 

 10 in. high and as many wide, -which will, no doubt, when in the hands of expert cultiva- 

 tors, bo grown to 18 in. high and as much in diameter. Such crowns, upon well-grown plants, 

 v,'ill surpass everything now known for table ornament, conservatory decoration, or the 

 manipulations of the bouquetist. On a recent tour through the grounds of Mr. Isaac Buchanan, 

 the millionaire florist of New York, he drew me towards two plants of familiar outline, but on 

 inspection, I discovered a plant entirely now to me. ' Is this the double Poinsettia ? ' I asked, 

 'It is ; and I paid 1,000 dels, in cash for it,' was the reply. The saddle- like foliage has a 

 more graceful outline than the pi'esent Poinsettia, the nerves of deeper purple, the petiole 

 (foot-stalk) has two erect stipules of about a quarter of an inch high, surmounted by two 

 glands." The inflorescence is made up of numerous ramiQcations, forming a compound head. 



Annexed we give a list of the Floivers Certificated at ChiswicJc, by 



the Floral Committee of the Eoyal Horticultural Society, in the trials of 1873 : — 



Pelargoniums as Pot Plants. 



Forest-Hill Nosegay ...Rosy-salmon nosegay. 



Bedding Pelargoniums. 



Beautiful for Ever Golden variegated zonal. 



Colonel Loyd Lindsay ,, 



Countess of Enuiskillen ,, 



Madonna ,, 



Oriental „ 



Peter Grieve ,, 



Princess Louise ,, 



Circassian Beauty Silver varIog.>t.Nl zonal. 



Fair Rosamond 



Lass o' Gowrio „ 



Laura Silver-margined. 



Golden Brilliantissima ,, 



Crown Prince B.'onze zo:ial. 



Emperor of Brazil „ 



Froelight „ 



Goldo2i Harry Ilieover ., 



Mrs. Elliott „ 



Reino Victoria ,, 



Amaranth Pink-flo vrcred. 



Bella „ 



Cleopatra „ 



Evans' Seedling „ 



Mrs. Ilaliburton „ 



Welbock Nosegay ,, 



Chunder Sen Scarlet zonal. 



Don Giovanni ., 



Dr. Livingstone „ 



Begere Scarlet nosegay. 



Forest-Hill Nosegay ...Rosy-salmon nosegay. 



Fuchsias. 



Alpha Double purple corolla. 



Avalanche „ 



Blue Beauty (2nd) ,, 



Victor (2nd) ,, 



La Favorite Single purple corolla. 



Crown Prince of Prussia ,, 



Noblesse ,, 



Rhoderick Dhu ,, 



Wave of Life ,, 



Weeping Beauty ,, 



Avalanche Double white corolla. 



Delight Single white corolla. 



L'Empereur ,, 



Lustre (2nd) White sepals and tube. 



Schiller „ 



Starlight ,, 



White Perfection ,, 



Phloxes. 



Le Lion Lilac, pale eve. 



Mens. W. Bull „ 



Dame Blanche White, rosy eye. 



Lady Hulse Rosy purple. 



Roi des Roses Rosy crimson. 



Mens. Taillard Rosy salmon. 



Carl Klein Rosy lilac. 



Pentstemons. 



Agnes Laing Purplish rose. 



A. St. Clair Rod with dark throat. 



Paulino Daurant Deep rose. 



Stanstead Rival Carmine. 



JTrom Mr. "W. Thompson, of Ipswich, we have received specimens of a 



fine new hardy perennial, Centaurea americana Ilallii^ which is greatly superior to 

 the type, for while that has pale lilac-purple florets, in the new form they are of 

 a deep magenta-purple ; the flower-heads are very largo, measuring, when expanded, fully 

 4 in. across. In light soil the plant grows from 2^^ ft. to 3 ft. high. The leaves on the flower- 

 ing branches are ovate-lanceolate, sessile, and comparatively small ; while the colour of tho 

 flower-heads is very rich before full expansion takes place. It has been obtained from Texas, 

 and is quite an acquisition in its class. 



• ^ Dwarf "White Celery, known as Tulce's Celery^ was growing at 



Gunnersbury Park some quarter of a century since, and since that date has been 

 grown as the Incomparable. This celery — dwarf-growing, white, very soHd, and 

 of excellent quality— Mr. Sago now grows at Ashridge to great perfection, having obtained 

 itfrorn the neighbourhood of Ealing, some 14 years ago. Mr. Sage grows it in bods 5 ft. 

 wide, in which four rows are planted 1 ft. apart each way, leaving 6 in. clear outside each 



