4G8 THE GARDENER. [Oct. 



tiful, brisk light rose, stamped with a deeper rose-purple around the 

 eye ; habit dwarf. George Goodal colour dark rose-purple, with a 

 large clear purple eye, large perfect l. rraed flowers and massive spike. 

 Mrs Austin, French white, with delica.e but distinct touches of purple 

 around the eye ; very telling. Marquis of Lorn, cream white, with 

 brisk rose eye, large spike, splendid. The Queen, white, showing de- 

 licate tracings of faint purple ; a fine old variety, very distinct. The 

 foUov/ing late sorts are taken from a brilliant assortment grown in 

 pots ; they are most diversified in colour, ranging between dark 

 purple and white: — Rosy Morn, dark; the Shah, dark; LadyMiddleton, 

 licrht; Lothair, dark ; Mons. le Baron Deiffe, dark ; Roi des Blancs, 

 white ; Madame Marie Saison, light ; Mons. Plenricq, one of the most 

 lovely and telling, giving light and effect to all other Phloxes it is in 

 contrast to, colour rose madder, with a faint maroon eye, enormous 

 spike; Princess Louisa, light; Memnon, dark; Emblem, light ; John 

 Standish, light ; Mons. Edward, dark ; Roi des Roses, dark ; Madame 

 Andry, dark ; Delicatum, light ; Mons. Malet, dark ; Edith, light. 



NEW PANSIES. FANCIES. 



This section of the Pansy is fast rising in public favour, indeed 

 threatening to supersede the much-esteemed ''' Show " division. The 

 "Fancy," though less refined to the eye of a connoisseur than the Show, 

 has two qualifications which are of much importance. These are, su- 

 perior vigour of growth, and the wonderful splendour and wide range 

 of colours which they embrace. In regard to "finish," of late years 

 this is very much improved. For example, compare the new Fancy, 

 called John B. Downie, and it will be seen that it closely approaches 

 the criterion by which Pansies are judged. Mrs B. Brooks, a large 

 flat expansive flower, with a proportionable great blotch of black, 

 glossed by crimson purple, which gloss extends over the lower portion 

 of its sulphur edge ; upper portion washed with bronze crimson and 

 purple, which commingle, and leave a clear border margin of pale sul- 

 phur, eye yellow, small, of nice uniformity. Picotee, — this is the 

 greatest novelty of the season, which is borne out when consider- 

 ing its tracings, which proceed from the blotch unbroken to the 

 verge, forming a rare network delightful to look at ; blotch large, uni- 

 form, colour rich indigo blue, bordered with sulphur, thickly overspread 

 with dark veins, edged with a neat lacing of deep purple, eye clear 

 orancre, feathered neatly, size much above the average, surface smooth, 

 solid, and glossy. Mrs Hunter, yellow ground of superior merit, 

 blotch shining, brownish black on the wing petals, which changes to 

 a shade lighter of same colour on the under petal, which show clear 

 veins of maroon, eye large, orange margin brilliant yellow, broken 



