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large ; Tubiflora, blush-wliite, the bells very large ; Voltaire, wax-like iu texture, 

 almost a pure white, very symmetrical. The best doubles in this series lead off with 

 Lord Wellington, which may be shown (as it has been by the writer of this) with 

 bells two and a-half inches across, there is nothing to beat it for show purposes ; 

 Groot Voorst, superb, light blush ; Triumph Blandiua, blush, with lake eye, quite 

 waxlike ; Prince of Wales, fine blush ; Anna Maria (a lady correspondent has just 

 sent a spike in a box asking if it is a good one ; it had fifty-four bells on it ; the 

 verdict is " fine") ; Miss Kitty, blush with purple eye, apt to run up too much. 

 The rosy class are much prized. Belle Quirine, pale flesh, striped carmine ; Cavaignac, 

 pink, with deep rose stripe, fine bells ; Chapeau de Cardinal, rich salmon, tinted 

 rose, very distinct and fine ; Emmeline, lovely for colour ; La Dame du Lac, one of 

 the best, bright pink, changing when the green quits the tips to a very delightful 

 shade of colour ; Lord Wellington, the single form, a fine subject ; Monsieur de 

 Feasch, superbly variegated when full out, the colour lively pink ; Temple of 

 Apollo, a rare shade of rose, large and waxlike. Among the double varieties, the 

 best are Acteur, long tirbe, the bells large, and the segments finely recurved, l3lush. 

 Avitli pink stripe ; Czar Nicholas, pale rose ; Frederick the Great, bright pink ; 

 tipped rose ; Regiua Victoria, grand bells, pink with purple eye. Dark reds and 

 crimsons : Garibaldi is the richest coloured of the established kinds, but it is dear ; 

 Robert Steiger is cheap and splendid, a fine deep ricli shade of pinky red ; Solfaterre 

 is a half-guinea bulb, lovely in colour, two distinct shades of rosy scarlet and 

 reddish orange ; Von Schiller, grand dark red, one of the best for cultivation ; 

 Mademoiselle Rachel, lively rosy-red ; L'Ami du Coeur, rosy-red ; Amy, bright 

 rich red, fine truss. The best doubles are Alida Louisa, a capital conservatory kind ; 

 Milton, a grand spike and good bells, colour rich bright red ; Bouquet Tendre, one 

 of the good cheap not)Ie-babited kinds ; Princess Royal, delicate rosy-red, a fine truss. 

 The lif/Jif blue and jyorcelain class give us Couronne de Celle, a fine pale blue; Grand 

 Lilas, a cheap and first-rate variety, a nice shade of porcelain with white shades ; 

 Grand Vedette, also cheap, pale blue changing to white centre, bells large, habit 

 robust; Porcelain Scepti-e, azure tube, pale blue centre with mottling of purple, a 

 fine truss. Here are some fine doubles : A-la-mode, porcelain, with violet eye; 

 Blocksberg, bright azure, striped with white; Madame Marmont, pale lavender, fine 

 bells; Prince Frederick, pale blue, very lai-ge ; Van Speyk, a cheap kind, and one 

 of the grandest. True blue has its representatives in some fine varieties. Argus is 

 o-rand and cheap, blue with white centre; Baron Von Tuyll, massive trusses, rich 

 blue ; Bleu mourant, cheap and superb, the truss very compact ; Charles Dickens, 

 good for every purpose, first-rate for exhibition, and largely grown for market — it is 

 so sure, so good, so showy ; Duke of Wellington, dark shaded porcelain; L'Ami du 

 Coeur, tine violet blue; Nimrod, light blue, rather short, first-rate for conservator}-, 

 border, and market; Orondates, one of the very best, light shaded porcelain, a superb 

 truss, cheap; Prins Van Saxe Weimar, fine dark, shaded blue. The best doubles 

 are King of the Netherlands, rich blue, shaded margin; Sir Colin Campbell, dark 

 blue, fine bells; and Laurens Koster is a grand double, dark blue with violet shade. 

 The darkest kinds are valuable. " Prince Albert, one of the cheapest, is one of the 

 best, though a small spike and thin bells. The way to enjoy it is to place it on the 

 table at night iu a strong gaslight, it is then as black as ink; by daylight it is 

 blackish purple, and decidedly pretty. Othello, Blackbird (expensive). La Nuit, 

 Belle Africaine, William the First, all very dark and very good. The best doubles 

 are General Havelock, fine purple changing to black as it gets old ; Mehemet All, 

 dark violet-blue, a fine flower; Kroon Van India, blackish-indigo; Keizer Alexander, 

 violet, very double, and fine spike. A few of the mauve and reddish-purple kinds 

 are good, particularly Haydn and Unique, both of them nearly a true mauve, or say 

 reddish-puce; Honneur de Overveen, reddish lilac, large bells. Here the best doubles 

 are Hermann, mauve, striped rose; Netherlands Glory, a most curious colour, a sort 

 of orange-mauve, in its way a companion to Solfatewe ; Pyramid of Pearls, a most 

 chaste and beautiful shade of lilac. Yellotos are few, and for the most part bad. 

 Ida is a pure primrose, most beautiful in spike and bells, and shows to great advan- 

 tage among violets; Soleil d'Or, straw-colour; Anna Carolina, good in its way as a 

 yellow; Fieur d'Or, canary-yellow, not reliable, and wants a good heat; Heroine, 

 pale yellow, tipped green, pretty; King of Holland, a good orange when well placed 

 amongst blues or lilacs to bring out the colour, but standing alone thii-d-rate. The 

 best doubles arc Double Heroine, Jaune Supreme, and La Grandeur. 



