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SELECTIONS FOR 1866. 



HE following selections comprise the best varieties in the several classes, 

 any, or ail, of which may be purchased with the most perfect safety. 

 Generally speaking, the selections include varieties that may be obtained 

 at a low rate of cost, but it miist be understood that all the newer kinds 

 are comparatively expensive, and in giving orders for them, that must be taken into 

 consideration : — 



Antirkhinums. — Ackergill, Beadsman, Bravo, Crimson King, Eugenie Scribe, 

 Lord Clyde, Mammoth, Modesta, Optimum, Queen Mab, Striata perfecta, William W. 

 Wardrop. These twelve are various in style and colours, and will form an excellent 

 small collection, the strong selfs among them being admirable for bedding. 



C.-vLCEOLAPaAs FOK Beds. — Amplexicaulis,* Canariensis,* Cloth of Gold,* 

 Gaines's Yellow, Aurea floribunda. Prince of Orange,* Viscocissima, Gem, Victor 

 Emmanuel, General Wolfe, Prince Louis of Hesse. The best four for bedding pur- 

 poses are distinguished by an asterisk. 



Dahlias. — Fiflt/ of the finest show flowers in classes : — 



Light : Miss Henshaw, Umpire, Hon. Mrs. Trotter, Lady Popham, Mrs. Pigott, 

 Peri, Charlotte Dorliiig, Anna Keynes, Alexandra, Princess. 



Yellow and Orange: Norfolk Hero, Chairman, Golden Drop, Hugh Miller, 

 Charles Turner, General Jackson, William Dodd, Fanny Purchase, Willie Austin, 

 Golden Admiration, Leah, Queen of Primroses, Lady M. Herbert, Mrs. Wyndbam. 



Crimson and Red : John Keynes, Triomphe de Pecq, British Triumph, Pioneer, 

 Bob Pvidley, Edward Spary. 



Purple and Maroon: Andrew Dodd, Lord Derby, Midnight, Earl of Pembroke, 

 Favourite, George Wheeler. 



Lilac : Juno, Marquis of Bowmont, Jenny Austin, Criterion. 

 Striped and Spotted : Garibaldi. 



Tipped : Stafford's Gem, Lady Paxton, Norah Creina, Queen Mab. 

 Dahlias for bedding : Queen of Whites, Golden Bedder, Golden Ball, Beaute 

 de Massifs, scarlet ; Scarlet Gem, Rose Gem, Tom Thumb, purplish crimson, fine ; 

 Captain Ingram, crimson ; Crimson Dwarf, Purple Zelinda. 



Bouquet Dahlias : These are invaluable to plant in mixed borders and fronts of 

 shrubberies to furnish cut flowers at a time when they are much wanted. The 

 flowers of the varieties here named are very small and globular, the largest scarcely 

 equal in circumference to the size of a crown piece. Annie, Little Darling, Little 

 Philip, Little Puss, Tom Rover, Fairy Child, Pet of the Village, German Daisy, 

 Pretty Polly. 



Show Dahlias of 1866. — The foUowingare the best of the new dahlias to be sent 

 out this season : — 



^wWioJi (Turner), gold yellow; Lpaulette (Turner), gold, tipped with purple. 

 Fanny Stvrt {2 o^a), cXmxry red, tipped pale fawn ; Freemason (Turner), rosy pur- 

 ple; John Bunn (Keynes), buff, boldly striped vermilion red; John Gibson 

 (Keynes), scarlet ; Le Domino noir (Turner), maroon, tipped white ; Marquis of 

 Winchester (Keynes), maroon crimson ; Sunlight (Turner), reddish orange, changing 

 to buff orange. 



Bedding Dahlias of 1866. — Little Beauty (Rawlings), crimson with buff 

 yellow base, very showy and novel ; Q«ee« of Roses (E. G. Henderson), pure rose. 

 Scarlet Tom Thumb (E. G. Henderson), scarlet, beautiful, ver}' dwarf. 



FUCHSIA'S, best twelve, with dark corollas. — Always Ready, Charming, La 

 Favourite, Lord Elcho, Exhibition, Bacchus, Lucretia Borgia, Marvellous (fine for 

 standards), the Lord Warden, Troubadour, Rosa Salvator (fine for standards), Me- 

 dora (dwarf). Six with white sepals and red corollas. — Bianca Marginata, Brides- 

 maid, Gipsy Girl, Madlle. Tietjens, Minnie Banks, Reine Blanche. Six toith tvhite 

 coroWas.— Conspicua, Madame Cornelissen, Puritani, Sanspareil, Emperor of 

 Fuchsias (not good till it gets old, and is then fine for the conservatory), Vainqueur 

 de Puebla. Twelve various. — Prince Alfred, Emblematic, Finsbury Volunteer, 

 Rifleman (dwarf), Grand Duke (double dark), Hercules (double dark). 



Fuchsias of 1866.— J5ea!f^2/ (Banks), carmine sepals, lavender corolla ; Dread- 

 nought (G. Smith), massive double, corolla violet ; Enoch Arden (E. G. Henderson), 



