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Guardsman (Turner)-, Scarlet Bizarre.— A fine large full flower, very briglit 

 anc beautifully marked ; quite distinct, and particvilarly attractive. The largest 

 in its class ; extra fine. 



Mars (Hextall), Scarlet Bizarre.— A grand flower, very large and moderately 

 fuli, fine broad smooth petal, very bright colours, and beautiful markings ; much 

 in the style of Admiral Curzon, but larger, and of a more robust habit. It was 

 awarded a First-class Certificate at Leicester ; extra fine. 



Mercury (Ilextall), Scarlet Bizarre — A fine large flower, with good smooth 

 petals, and very fairly marked ; a good useful variety. 



Saturn (Ilextall), Scarlet Bizarre — A fine flower, very bright and well 

 marked, large and full without confusion. It was awarded a Certificate of Merit 

 at Leicester ; extra fine. 



Superb (Ingrcan), Scarlet Flake. — Fine smooth petals, very bright and well 

 marked ; large, full, and very fine. It was awarded a First-class Certificate at 

 Royal Horticultural Society ; extra fine. — John Ball, Slough. 



NEW DOUBLE-FLOWERED CINERARIAS. 



WITH AN ILLUSTRATION. 



I OUBLE-FLOWEEED Cinerarias are not absolute novelties, for we re- 

 ',yk member having seen exhibited in London, in 1861, by Mr. Kendall, of 

 Stoke Newington, a variety called C. rosea jjletia^ to which a commenda- 

 tion was then awarded, and which was a very pretty, compact-growing, 

 double-fiowered variety, with the flower-heads of a magenta-rose. Whether that 

 was lost or not, or did not perpetuate itself, we do not know, but it was not seen 

 again in public ; nor has a double-flowered Cineraria appeared since that time, so 

 far as we are aware, till this year, when cut blooms of several varieties were sent 

 to us, and were such as to lead us to hope for the permanent establishment of the 

 double-flowered Cineraria as a valuable decorative plant. 



We have to thank Messrs. Haage and Schmidt, of Erfurt, not only for the 

 opportunity of publishing the accompanying figure of this novelty, but also for 

 the pleasure of inspecting, during the past summer, the blooms above referred to, 

 which were of the greatest possible interest and beauty, and were perfectly and 

 evenly double, being entirely made up of ligulate florets, as in the case of the 

 double-flowered Jacobaea, Senecio elegans^ which they very much resembled. There 

 were representatives of all the modifications of colour usually found amongst 

 Cinerarias, namely, crimsons and magentas in various shades, purples both dark 

 and light, as well as flowers tipped with several different tints of violet and magenta. 

 And there were size and symmetry, as the larger detached blooms, represented on 

 the plate of the natural size, fully testify. The habit of the plant, as represented 

 by the principal figure, is exceedingly good, and altogether we look upon these 

 novelties as decided acquisitions from a decorative point of view, even though, 

 as may be possible, the double-flowered character may not yet be thoroughly 

 fixed in the offspring. — T. Moore. 



