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Pink and Pueple Bizaeres. — Falconbridge (May) ; Shakes- 

 peare (May) ; Captivation (Taylor) ; John o' Groats (May) ; 

 Sarah Payne (Ward) ; William Catleugh (Puxley). 



PICOTEES. 



Heavy-edged Red. — Ne plus Ultra (Headly) ; Mrs. Norman 

 (Norman) ; Favourita (Kirtland) ; Countess of Wilton (Kirtland) ; 

 Mr. Lachner (Turner); Exhibition (Elkington). 



Light-edged Red. — Eugenie (Turner) ; Mrs. Reynolds Hole 

 (Turner) ; Miss Holbech (Kirtland) ; Ada Mary (Smith) ; Duke of 

 Wellington (Turner) ; Lauretta (Smith). 



Heavt-edged Pueple. — Lord Nelson (Norman) ; Rival Purple 

 (Headly); John Linton (Headly); Duke of Buckingham (Elking- 

 ton) ; Mr. May (Turner) : Countess (Fellowes). 



Light-edged Pueple. — National (Kirtland) ; Amy Robsart 

 (Dodwell) ; Princess of Wales, ex. ex. (Kirtland) ; Eliza (Payne) ; 

 Rev. Gr. Jeans (Kirtland); Neah Robinson (Kirtland). 



Light-edged Rose. — Rosy Circle (Payne) ; Bertha (Warris) ; 

 Lucy (Taylor) ; Mrs. Taylor (Taylor) ; Mrs. Sewell (Kirtland) ; 

 Rev. H. Matthews (Kirtland). 



Heavy-edged Rose. — Flower of the Day (Norman) ; Elise 

 (Kirtland) ; Princess Alice (Kirtland) ; Miss Meeking (Kirtland) ; 

 Princess Alice (Kirtland) ; Lena (Kirtland). 



CAN PEAT PLANTS BE GROWN WITHOUT PEAT ? 



ijHIS is a very important question for persons who live in 

 districts where peat is not to be found ; for in common 

 with all such materials, the cost of carriage any great 

 distance is so expensive, that none but the most wealthy 

 can ever hope to use it in any quantity. Peat is of 

 many kinds ; that from Wanstead Flats is very different in texture 

 from that dug at Shirley ; and these again both difler from Wimble- 

 don peat. Nevertheless, except in the case of a few species of plants 

 ofpeculiar constitution, any of these peats answer equally well for 

 all the purposes for which peat is required in gardening, and to 

 imitate any of them, therefore, would be a very desirable undertak- 

 ing. The best bog earth or peat consists chiefly of vegetable mould 

 and siliceous earth, mixed with the roots of brake, ling, and other 

 plants indigenous to such soils. If there be any doubt as to cutting 

 peat on a common, the cultivator of ericas and rhododendrons, etc., 

 may always make sure of securing a suitable material by selecting 

 the soil only from spots on which the native heaths flourish ; where 

 these grow the soil is sure to be found more or less peaty or sandy ; 

 if very sandy, the addition of any yellow loam in which the brake 

 grows luxuriantly will render it sutficiently nourishing for all kinds 

 of plants requiring peat. It may serve, perhaps, to assist in forming 

 an opinion as to the suitableness of any particular soil required for 



