Aagnbt 16, 1805. ] 



JOUKNAL OF HOKTICULTUKE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



in 



RUSSIAN VIOLET THE CZAR. 



nificent flowers and foliase, tho plants exhibited being growu 

 ill imrc loam without liiiuid manure. 



The flower is of a deep blue colour, of great substance, at- 



TuiB fine flower was raised by F. .J. Graham, Esq., of Crau- 

 ford, and obtained lirst-elass certilicates in ISC') from tho 

 lloyal Horticultural and Koyal Botanic Societies for its mag- 



taining 1} inch in depth, and on very- stout footstalks 9 inches of the plants in pots produced 130 flowers to a root, and others 



long. One of our highest authorities has publicly said of it, 

 " The Violet is evidently a genuine seeilling, and not only is 

 the plant remarkable for its extreme luxm-iance, but the smell 

 BUrpasses that of any other Violet I have ever met with." Bome 



had two flowers on one stalk. 



The accompanying engraving of the flower was measured 

 by compasses. The leaf is accurately copied from a tracing 

 from life. 



