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well done, Chasselas Musque is no mean substitute for it, and we are glad to hear 

 that it does well with you. Tour letter came too late for reply in the August 

 number. That it was not answered privately must be ascribed to want of time, and 

 not to want of politeness. 



Select Eoses. — T. R. Zee. — If you want a very select 18 hybrid perpetuals for 

 pot culture, you cannot do better than take the followinp; : — Beauty of Waltham, 

 Madame Cambaceres, Madame Victor Verdiei, Oiirier Delhomme, Charles Lefebvre, 

 Centifolia Eosea, Due de Eohan, Princess Mary of Cambridge, John Hopper, George 

 Paul Dr. Andry, Jules Margottin, Duchesse de Caylus, Madame Derreux Douville, 

 Baron A. de Eotlischild, Madame Moreau, Marguerite St. Amand, Madame Charles. 

 "Wood. It has been impossible of late to answer correspondents privately, on account 

 of our m^ny engagements. 



Variods — Commelina. — The flowers were shrivelled and shapeless, but from 

 what we could make of them they appear to belong to the classes under which ''the 

 old gardener" places them — Damask and Hundred-leaved. — Amateur., etc — It is quite 

 impossible to give the names of varieties of geraniums from leaves and flowers sent 

 by post. We could name hundreds of varieties for you if v/e saw the plants, but 

 after being pressed and dried in transit, and then remaining at the publishers a few 

 days before we see them, etc., etc., the identification is beyond the power of any 

 ordinary mortal. 



Bulbs fob Pkesext Planting. — Robert. — It scarcely matters what you buy in 

 the way of hyacinths, early tulips, and crocuses, for none of them are bad. If you 

 want cheap and effective kinds to use in quantities, the following will suit 

 admirably : — Hi/acinths, Amy, crimson ; Baron Von Tuyll, blue; Charles Dickens, 

 lilac ; Emicus, blue and white ; Grand Vainqueur, white ; Herstelde Vreede, dark 

 red; L'Ami du Coeur, red; Madame Hodgson, pale pink; Orondates, porcelain 

 blue ; Voltaire, blush. Early Tulips, Canary Bird, yellow ; Couleur Cardinal, 

 dark red ; Couleur Ponceau, crimson and white ; Gesneriana, crimson scarlet ; Lac 

 Van Ehyn, purple and white ; Standard Eoyal, white and crimson ; Yellow Prince, 

 gold and yellow. Crocus, Large yellow, Cloth of Gold, Albion, striped; Ne plus 

 ultra, clear blue ; Queen Victoria, white ; Sir Walter Scott, white and blue ; Prince 

 Albert, purple. Any of the first-class houses will supply these at the following 

 rates -.—Hyacinths, 4s. 6d. to 6s. per dozen, or 25s. to S5s. per hundred ; tulips, Is. 

 to 2s. 6d. per dozen, or 7s. to 16s. per hundred ; crocuses, 2s. to 3s. per hundred, or 

 15s. to 30s. per thousand. The following are the best hyacinths for exhibition and 

 conservatory decoration : — Single red, Amy, Cavaignac, Cosmos, Duchess of Rich- 

 mond, Florence Nightingale, Howard, La Dame du Lac, Lina, Reine des Jacinthes, 

 Solfaterre, Von Schiller. Smgle lohite, Alba supersissima (this is the best of all the 

 whites) ; Grandeur a Merveille, Madame Van der Hoop, Mont Blanc, Queen of the 

 Netherlands, Tubiflora. Single blue, Argus, Feruck Khan, Grand Lilas, Lord Pal- 

 merston. Mimosa. Single black, General Havelock, Piince Albert. Single mauve, 

 Haydn, Honneur d'Overveen, L'Unique. Single yellow. Heroine, Ida. Double 

 j-erf, Koh-i-noor, Lord Wellington, Milton, Regina Victoria. Double tohite, La Tour 

 d'Auvergne, Prince of Waterloo. Double blue, Blocksberg, Garrick, Laurens 

 Kostcr, Murillo, Van Speyk. The m:ijority of these may be obtained at from Is. 

 to 3s. 6d. each, but a few of them will cost from 10s. to 21s. each, and it will be 

 well, therefore, to consult a catalogue as to prices. It is impossible to make abetter 

 selection ; we happen to be familiar with almost every variety in cultivation, and 

 the above is such a selection as we should make for ourselves, were quality and 

 variety of the first importance, and price a secondary matter. Early single and 

 double tulips are admirably suited for decorative purposes in spring. The doubles 

 are coarse, sometimes vulgar, but they are tremendously showy, and we cannot do 

 without them. Tlie best are La Candeur, Duke of York, Blue Flag, Purple Crown, 

 Eex Rubrorum. The following singles are suitable for pots, as indeed are all those 

 in the first list -.—Thomas Mooi-e, Proserpine, Pottebakker (white and yellow), Mo- 

 liere. Rose Luisante, Queen Victoria, Archduc d'Autriche, Cardinal's Gold, Couleur 

 Cardinal, Le Matelas. The following varieties of Polyanthus narcissus are superb, 

 and cost only 3s. to 6s. per dozen : — Bazelman major, Gloriosa, Grand Soliel d Or, 

 Paper White, Queen of the Yellows, Staten-General. The pretty Narcissus junci- 

 foha is a gem for pots. We put a dozen of the little bulbs in 48-sized pots, and 

 have a stock sufficient to make a line in a long border when the plunging begins in 

 spring. 



