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Edinburgli, Horace Vernet, Le Rhone, Reynolds' Hole, a rather 

 new variety of considerable merit, and Prince Camille de Rohan. 

 More than these are not required, excepting in the largest collec- 

 tion. 



All the foregoing are Hybrid Perpetuals. Tea-scented and Noi- 

 settes were well represented at the exhibitions, but all notice of 

 them must be deferred for the present. 



riRST-CLASS BULBS IN POTS. 



BY E. OTJBKIDGE, 



Church Walk Nursery, Stoke Newington. 



iJARKET growers require very few sorts of bulbs, but 

 they use large quantities of those few, the selection 

 being regulated by the price and the quality, dood 

 sorts they must grow, and those they depend oii are 

 certainly the best, price being considered. In hyacinths 

 the favourites are, Homer, Valnqueur, Voltaire, Charles Dickens, 

 Grand Lilas, Alba superbissima, L'Ami du Cceur. lu tulips the 

 favourites are Van Thols, Pottebakkers. In narcissi, the polyanthus 

 section, of which there are several splendid varieties. 



The amateur needs more variety, and consequently while the 

 market sorts are equally useful in tlie private garden, they are not 

 all-sufficient. A lady or gentleman taking a pleasure in the garden, 

 does not wish to see the same kinds repeated and repeated. Hence 

 it is desirable for amateurs to grow collections, but for special deco- 

 rative purposes some of the very cheap showy kinds should be 

 grown in quantity. I was greatly interested in a collection of five 

 hundred sorts of hyacinths grown by Mr. Hibberd two years ago, 

 and the more so because that gentleman honoured me with the 

 order to obtain the bulbs, and I saw the collection several times 

 when in flower, and was surprised to find amongst so many, coru- 

 paratively few that were not worth growing, whereas I should have 

 expected to find fully one half or more to be utterly worthless. 

 Some seven years back Mr. Hibberd flowered an enormous collection 

 of tulips, that I watched in the same manner, and then there 

 occurred comparatively few that were not thoroughly good. _ Of 

 course no ordinary amateur needs such large collections, and it is 

 one of the duties of those who contribute to the horticultural 

 journals to point out the best among many, in order that readers 

 may be well advised both as to the expenditure of money and time, 

 for the bad things cost as much as tlie good ones, or, at all events, 

 the difierence in first cost is trifling, and as to time, there is as 

 much consumed in growing bad pkuita as iu growing good ones. 



The system we follow in growing thousands of bulbs for 

 Covent Garden Market will answer admirably in the management 

 of a collection in a private garden. We plant all our bulbs, 



September. 



