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best white ground varieties. Lord Napier is another 

 fine variety, and the new Mrs. Walter Heriot is 

 superior to both. Lady St. Osivald is even better 

 than Childe Harold as a garden flower, but it is not 

 so perfect. Abbot is an ideal Picotee, and has a 

 purple margin. Kate Coventry, Lady Sophie, St. Just, 

 and Rabelais are also yellow grounds with purple 

 margins. This colour has been plentiful for years 

 amongst white grounds, but is new in this class. 



Another quite new type produced at Hayes are 

 the varieties with broad crimson margins. The best 

 of these are Mazarin, Othello, and Dalkeith. Some of 

 the choicest of recent date are Mrs. Walter Heriot, 

 with rose-coloured margin ; Aone, rose-red ; Mrs. Fox- 

 Pitt, large flow^ers, with reddish purple margin ; Alla- 

 din, broad margin, purple in colour ; Merry Duchess, 

 rose-red ; Astarte, medium edge, reddish-purple ; and 

 Lady Avebury, a fine variety, with a light red edge. 

 These are the latest introductions, and the following 

 is a list of twenty-five of the finest older varieties. 

 All of them are from the Hayes seed-beds : Alcinous, 

 purple margin ; Aldeboran, rosy-scarlet ; Ainphion, 

 rose-red ; Argosy^ red scarlet ; Borderer, bright red ; 

 Caracci, rose ; Childe Harold, deep rose ; Daniel Defoe, 

 rose-red ; Empress Eugenie, rose ; Evelyn, bright rose ; 

 Gertrude, rose-red ; Glee Maiden, clear rose ; Hesperia, 

 rosy-lilac ; Lady Bristol, deep red ; Lady St. Oswald, 

 bright red ; Lauzan, purple; Mrs. Durrant, deep red ; 

 Mrs. Treniayne, scarlet ; Mohican, rosy-red ; Onda, 

 deep rose ; Pamela, rose lilac ; Professor, scarlet ; Vol- 

 taire, rose ; Wanderer, rosy-red ; Pilgrim, red ; and 



