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Crimson AND RED.—Thomas Goodwin, James Service, Henry Walton, Lord 
Palmerston, Sir Greville Smythe, Charles Backhouse, James Cocker, Marl of 
Radnor, John Standish. 
Purpre AnD Maroon.—Countess of Pembroke, Ovid, Indian Chief, Queen’s 
Messenger, Alexander Cramond, Willie Eckford. 
Lizac and Rosz.—Memorial, Juno, Lilac Queen, Criterion, Mrs. Boston, 
William Pringle Laird. 
Best Tuirty Suow Dautras. 
(Arranged according to their Colours.) 
Srrivep AND Sporrep.—Miss Lillie Large, Rev. J. B. Camm, Carnation, 
Mdlle. Nilsson, Attraction, Octoroon, Ebor, Jolin Salter, John Bunn, Remarkable, 
Butterfly, Flora Wyatt, Flossie Williams, Grand Sultan, Leopardess, Viceroy, 
Marquis of Lorne, Parrot. 
Tierep.—Beauty of Wills, Laura Haslam, Lady Paxton, Pauline, Pluto, Queen 
Mab, Prospero, Fanny Sturt, Le Dominie Noir, Gem of the Grove, Mrs, Saunders, 
Mrs. Bennett, Monarch. 
Best Twenty-Five Bouquet ox Pomponr Dantas. 
Annie, Little Dear, Little Nigger, Tom, Rover, Bessie, Fairy Child, Little 
Dorrit, Fireball, Guiding Star, Sacramento, Burning Coal, Dr. Webb, Northern 
Light, Pet of the Village, German Daisy, Sunshine, Pretty Gem, Conqueror, Little 
Wag, Little Willie, Nemesis, Golden Canary, Perfection of Lilliputs, Voltaire. 
NEW BOOKS. 
Skercnes or Bririsu Insects. By Rev. W. Houcuton (Groombridge). —This 
is a very valuable addition to the elegant handy books Messrs. Groombridge have 
for some years past been producing, and which now constitute quite an unique 
library of natural history, specially adapted for young people, but useful and 
perhaps delightful to people of all ages. The volume before us by Mr. Houghton 
is characterized by the author as “a handbook for beginners in the study of en- 
tomology,” and a very comprehensive, entertaining, and trustworthy handbook it 
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with the stocking and arranging the insect cabinet at home. All the orders of 
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Domestic Froricurrure. By F. W. Burernce (Blackwood).—This pretty 
and useful work was introduced to our readers on its first appearance, as worthy of 
their confidence, and it has attained to a second edition so quickly that there 
remains no question of its enjoying the confidence of the world at large. The pre- 
sent edition contains some additions, and is rather more nicely turned out than the 
first, though there was no fault to be found with that. We can but beg such of our 
friends as need a handy and not over elaborate work on the management of small 
greenhouses, window gardens, and the preparation of floral devices and embellish- 
ments, to add to their happiness at once, by ordering this handsome work by Mr. 
Burbidge. 
Hanpy Hook or tue Frower Garpen. By Davin THomson (Blackwood).— 
This is the third edition of one of the best books of its class. It has and always 
had the faults common to books written by big gardeners for little people—that of 
shooting over their heads in some things, as, for example, in the lists, which are 
mostly too large for the size of the book. But it is so sound, so explicit, so full, 
$0 nicely toned, that we feel uncomfortable in finding fault, and make an end of 
the matter by heartily recommending it. The amateur gardener will find it in- 
valuable, and it will constitute a capital cheap present to a young gardener who 
does not as yet profess to know everything. 
Business. By James Purarr (Simpkin).—This is a noble treatise on the philo- 
sophy of money-making, and the moralities of trade. It is short enough to serve 
as a sermon for a business man who is open to good impressions, and would like to 
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