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New Michaelmas Daisies. Royal Horticultural Society of Ireland. 



To any one who has not seen the latest, varieties 

 a real treat is in store. Varieties ol recent intro- 

 duction have more flowers open at the one time, 

 a jfreat point of advantage over the old kinds, from 

 which decayed flowers require to he cut when using- 

 the branches for decoration. But it is in the colours, 

 graceful habit, and size of flowers tliat the greatest ad- 

 vances have been made. Climax is a fine new one much 

 in demand for its clear blue flowers, two inches across, 

 and also Lil Kardell, with equally large rich pink flowers ; 

 there are now several splendid pink kinds. Keston Blue 

 is, perhaps, the bluest of any ; Beauty of Colwall is the new 

 double. flowered variety, bearing blue flowers ; Winnie 

 Brazier is soft lavender pink, with deep golden centre, 

 flowering in graceful sprays with heath-like foliage ; 

 Thirza is a dainty pink with cream shading, producing 

 perfect pyramidal branches well in flower at the one 

 lime ; Spiendens is a rich blue, w^ith fine erect habit and 

 long graceful sprays. It is hard to beat Maidenhood, 

 with small pin-e wliite flowers, borne in profusion on tall 

 tapering stems ; fiaiety has a graceful pendulous habit, 

 with a marvellous amount of white flowers suftused with 

 delicate rosy lavender. One of the most striking sec- 

 lions is the niiiellKs type, of which several grand new 

 hybrids have been raised. Never exceeding two feet in 

 height, they give broad masses of the largest flowers 

 obtained in Michaelmas Daisies. Another section of 

 great artistic beauty is the cun/i/o/tiis class, with myriads 

 of minute flowers, such as Photograph, with its shimmer- 

 ing mists of rosy lavender-shaded flowers on erect stems. 

 All the varieties here mentioned and many other lovely 

 kinds are more fully detailed in the new publication — 

 " Garden Flowers, 1912"— turned out by Messrs. Watson 

 & Sons, Clontarf Nurseries, Dublin. They will send a 

 copy free of cost to any reader of IiilsH CIariumng. 

 and now is the time to plant. 



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At the monthly meeting of the council held on the 

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 society to subscribe for the "Irish Cup," for presen- 

 tation to the Royal International Horticultural Ex- 

 hibition, which was considered very satisfactory, 

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 towards the expense and liability incurred by the 

 Ulster Rose and Floral Society (in the interest of the 

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 daffodils and tulips from the Royal Nurseries, Balls- 

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