114 THE FLORIST. 



1st Class. Plain Variegation, white and green, with scarlet flowers. 

 Alma (Turner), clear foliage, abundant bloomer, flowers scarlet. 

 Annie (Kinghorn), very white edge, flowers bright scarlet 

 Bijou (Wcstwood), a most beautiful variety, strong free grower, scarlet flowers 

 *Jane (Lennox), beautiful variegation, flowers bright scarlet, very freely 



produced 

 Hendersoni, a scarlet-flowered " Flower of the Day." 

 Perfection, very handsome, not so free as " Bijou," but very white edge, and 



green very dark. 



2nd Class. White and Green Variegated, with Pink or Crimson Horseshoe. 



Attraction (Kinghorn), edge good, horseshoe pink, habit not good. 



Burning Bush (Halley), similar in foliage to above, but much dwarfer in habit, 



very pretty 

 Hotel de Cluny, clear white, pink horseshoe 



*No. 25 (Henderson), clear foliage, pink horseshoe, scarlet flowers 

 *Picturata, clear white edge, with pink or crimsou and pink horseshoe ; small 



scarlet flowers, very striking 



3rd Class. Golden Edged. 

 Golden Chain, foliage very clear and good, habit dwarf, flowers poor 

 *No. 50 (Henderson), a free grower, small scarlet flower. 



I by no means wish to imply that my opinion is worth anything as 

 a guide to others ; I have certain ideas of what things ought to be, 

 and, judging them by that standard, so far the opinion is correct. Tbe 

 question is, is my standard the right one ; and now, before closing this 

 paper, I would add a few words respecting a misconception which, I 

 grieve to find, has been made relative to my article on Chrysanthe- 

 mums, in that I omitted the names of some of the largest growers 

 in the kingdom. When speaking of them, I did not of course mean 

 to infer that the nurserymen I named were the only or the largest 

 growers ; they were the ones whose plants I had seen. I believe, for 

 example, one of the largest is Mr. Bird, of Stoke Newington, the 

 peculiar home of the flower. He is, moreover, one of our most success- 

 ful exhibitors. D. 



Deal, March 19. 



CHISVVICK AS AN EXPERIMENTAL GARDEN. 



We are glad to hear that the gardens of the Horticultural Society at 

 Chiswick (or at least a large portion of them), are to be converted into 

 experimental grounds, for the trial of vegetables on a large scale, to 

 assist which purpose we learn, through the Gardeners' Chronicle, that 

 contributions of seeds are being sent for trial by the principal seedsmen. 

 If tbe gardens are to be kept at all (which under all the circumstances 

 we now greatly question), we do not see that they could be devoted to 

 a more useful object. Much, however, indeed everything, will depend 

 on the kind of person whom the Society may be able to secure for their 

 new Superintendent, who should unquestionably be a man of sound 

 practical knowledge and acute powers of observation, to draw up the 

 reports with that degree of accuracy without which they will be compara- 

 tively valueless, and the time and expenditure of the Society will have 



