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miseration is excited along with our regard. 
Duchess of Westminster and Pearl are others 
of the same class, which are the result of 
crossing varieties very widely separated in 
habit of growth, and none of the progeny 
have constitutions of any vigor. In Duke of 
Connaught we have the offspring of President 
crossed by Louis Van Houtte; both parents 
are smooth-wooded sorts, but no nurseryman 
can, by ordinary culture, grow from cuttings 
plants of Louis Van Houtte that will be 
salable after one season’s growth. With 
such a parent we cannot wonder that the 
propagation of good plants of Duke of Con- 
naught has been found so tedious and dis- 
couraging by those who have undertaken it. 
I understand that some of the New Jersey 
florists are growing this variety with profit, 
but this simply shows what great skill can 
do, and does not prove that the variety will 
be generally useful. 
Jean Sisley and Hon. George Bancroft are 
two others of Bennett’s which fade very 
quickly; besides this fault the former sort is 
very difficult to open and we condemn it as 
utterly worthless; the latter variety, if grown 
so that the original color is retained, will 
generally give satisfaction, though many 
more malformed blooms are produced than 
