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clouded crimson spot shaded to the edge with rosy crimson, the eye white, the 

 lower petals rosy pink, very large, and of extra fine form and habit. 



Anna (Wilson's). The ground colour of this beautiful flower is a fine clear 

 white, with a splendid, rich, dark crimson spot, of extra fine form and habit. 



Alicy (Wilson's). Upper petals nearly covered with a very dark crimson spot, 

 delicately shaded to the edge with light pink, lower petals rosy pink, large flower, 

 good form and habit. 



Fulgens (Wilson's). Fine scarlet crimson, with dark spot having a light centre, 

 lower petals scarlet crimson, a good shaped flower. 



Maid of Saragossa (Wilson's). Upper petals fine rose, with large dark spot, 

 lower petals beautiful pink, good form. 



Sylphide (Wilson's). Upper petals fine, dark clouded spot, shaded to the edge 

 with rosy crimson, lower petals fine pale rose, of good form and habit. 



Assassin (Wilson's). Upper petals crimson spot shaded with pink, lower 

 petals rosy pink, good form and habit. 



London, Jan. 15th, 1841. 



A List of Superb Pinks. — In answer to some person who signs E. H., Ster- 

 lingshire, wishing a list of the best sort of Pinks, I take the opportunity of 

 sending the enclosed, being a small portion of the best sorts grown about Wool- 

 wich, which has long been celebrated for fine Pinks. They may be had of any 

 of the florists here, viz., Messrs. Normau, Ibbett, &c. 



March 9, 1841. Michael Martin, Harden' s-lane, Woolwich. 



N.B. Thanks to Mr. William Harrison for his cursory remarks on the Tulip 

 in your last ; I hope I shall hear from him again. 



Twenty-five Fine Proved I'arielies. 



Aker's Lord Brougham. 

 Bernard's Bexley Hero. 

 Burchell's Young John. 

 Church's Rosannah. 



„ Triumph. 

 Coppin's Duke of Bedford. 

 Colis's Majestic. 

 Cooper's King Alfred. 

 Creed's President. 

 Cousin's Beauty of Kent. 

 Dry's Earl of Uxbridge. 

 Wardstone's Queen Victoria. 

 Hopkins's One in the Ring. 

 Ibbett's Triumphant. 

 Jelf's Mary Anne. 

 Kelson's Countess of Plymouth. 

 Norman's Defiance. 



„ Mary Anne. 

 Pinder's Lady Hallowell. 

 Stevens's Hon. Sir G. Cook. 

 Shenton's Queen of the Isles. 

 Unsworth's Omega. 

 Willmore's Queen Victoria. 



„ Duchess of Kent. 



Knight of Henley. 



Alpha, from Hogg. 

 Agate's Eliza. 



Bragg's Duchess of Cornwall. 

 Colis's Conservative. 

 Cousin's West Kent Hero. 



„ Little Wonder. 

 Hughes's Conqueror. 



„ Lady Barrington. 



„ Miss Rose Morland. 

 Hogg's Lord Dunraven. 

 Hodges's Gem. 



„ Black and Clean. 

 Ibbett's Prince Albert. 

 „ Jim Crow. 

 „ Captain Dundas. 

 Jelf'sNeplus Ultra. 

 Morritf s William Hume. 

 Mac Cloud's Seedling. 

 Prior's Queen Victoria. 

 Robinson's Blackheath Hero. 

 Smith's Dr. Coke. 

 Wallis's Unique. 

 Willmore's Prince Albert. 

 Thurtell's Indispensable. 



„ Mile End Defiance. 



[Twenty-five new varieties; have seen nearly the whole of them; I consider 

 them fine.] 



Victoria Rkgia. — Seeds of this, the queen of hothouse aquatic plants, have 

 at length been procured in a fresh state by Mr. Schomburgk, who, after distri- 

 buting a part among his friends, has left a few for sale in the hands of Mr. 

 Pamplin, Queen-street, Soho. These seeds were procured ufter the coloured 

 man, who acted as cockswain during Mr. Schomburgk's last expedition, had 

 revisited, for the third time, the region where the plant grows. The two previous 

 times ho id not find it in seed, but he brought down some plants, which, at 



