128 THE GARDENER. [March 



the ensuing year, no one can find fault with the liberal amounts offered; and 

 ■what will please many is that some of our neglected but most beautiful florists' 

 flowers are laudably included in the list. This we cannot help thinking is, 

 indeed, a step in the right direction. Who amongst us but remembers the 

 delighted groups that used to surround the stands of Carnations, Pinks, Dahlias, 

 &c., in years gone by ?— but there has of late years been a sad falling off among 

 these old favourites. But we think — as we have reason to know many others do 

 —that such liberal and energetic measures as the Metropolitan Floral Society 

 are using, and the cordial co-operation of florists in general, will once more raise 

 our old favourites to their proper place at our exhibitions. We think it will not 

 be out of place if we venture to name some of the best varieties of the dififerent 

 florists' flowers that we know possess every qualification for exhibition pur- 

 poses. 



Auriculas. 



Green-edged. — Smith's Lycurgus, Lee's Colonel Taylor, Page's Champion, Hud- 

 son's Apollo, Headly's Conductor, Traill's General Neill. 



Grey-edged. — Headly's George Lightbody, Cheetham's Lancashire Hero, Tur- 

 ner's Competitor, Lightbody's Richard Headly, Turner's Ensign, Turner's Colonel 

 Champneys. 



White-edged. Heap's Smiling Beauty, Taylor's Favourite, Lee's Earl Gros- 



venor, Taylor's Glory, Campbell's Robert Burns, Cheetham's Countess of Wilton. 



Sdfs. — jSTetherwood's Othello, Martin's Mrs Sturrock, Turner's Cheerfulness, 

 Sim's Eliza, Spalding's Blackbird, Turner's Webster. 



Carnations. 



Scarlet Bharres. — Daniel's Dreadnought, Paxley's William Pitt, Holliday's 

 Lord Rancliffe, Bunn's Lord Lewisham. 



Crimson Bizarres. — Wood's Rifleman, Kirtland's Colonel North, Wood's An- 

 thony Dennis, Wood's Eccentric Jack. 



Pink and Purple Bizarres.— May's Falconbridge, Paxley's Shakespeare, Sealey's 

 Princess-Royal, Young's Twyford Perfection. 



Picrple Flalces.— Foster's Dr Foster, Taylor's True Blue, Sealey's Florence 

 Nightingale, Elliott's Earl Stamford. 



Scarlet Flakes. — Gibbon's Mr Battersby, Jackson's Anuihilator, Wood's William 

 Cowper, Hedderly's Sportsman. 



Pose Flakes. — May's King John, Brook's Flora's Garland, Whitehead's John 

 Keet, Wood's James Merryweather, __ 



PiCOTEES. 



Red-edged. — Fellowes's Linda, Elkington's Exhibition, Kirtland's Lord Yalentia, 

 Norman's Colonel Clerk, Taylor's Miss Turner, Taylor's Forester, Turner's Mrs 

 Reynolds Hole, Norman's Mrs Norman. 



Pmyle-cdgcd. — Turner's Admiration, Simmonite's Mary, Simmonite's Mrs 

 Summers, Read's Frances, Fellowes's Nimrod, Turner's Jessie, Simmonite's 

 Ganymede, Turner's Lady Elcho. 



Pose-edged.— Kirtland's Empress Eugenie, Payne's Purity, Wood's Mrs Rol- 

 lings, Taylor's Mrs Fisher, Gibbon's Gem of Roses, Fellowes's Pauline, Norman's 

 Miss Williams, Taylor's Lucy. 



Pinks. 



Turner's Eustace, Turner's Mildred, Turner's Blondin, Turner's Bertram, 

 Turner's Sebastian, Turner's Sabina, Turner's Maude, Hooper's Attraction, 

 Maclean's Device, Battersby's Emily, Kirtland's Invincible, Turner's Lord Her- 



