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edged flower, and I am sure will be cultivated by many amateurs for 

 several seasons yet to come. It possesses a very good white ground, 

 and pretty heavily laced with purple, the petals of a very good form, 

 and the pod long and easily kept from bursting. 



Sharp's Red Rover. 



This is a very beautiful Picotee, the ground colour being a very 

 fine white, and the edging a heavy red. It seems pretty free from 

 central blotchings, and so far as I have seen, appears to be only a 

 smallish flower ; but this may have arisen from the weakness of the 

 plants which I saw. The leaves are well formed, and it seems a 

 very sweet and desirable variety. 



The Beauty of Baily. 

 This is a neat Picotee, with a very good white ground, and a light 

 edge of lightish purple, similar to that of Fanny Kemble. It is of 

 the middle size, with well formed petals, and a longish pod, not apt 

 to trouble the grower with bursting. 



Ely's Mrs. Horner. 



The last, though far from being the least in point of value in my 

 present list, is Ely's Mrs. Horner. This seems to be a favourite 

 flower in every neighbourhood into which it has been imported, and 

 seems destined to secure, as Shakspeare says, " golden opinions 

 from all sorts of people." It is one of Ely's very best varieties, 

 possessing a beautiful white ground, and heavily edged with bright 

 scarlet, with trifling markings down the centre of the petals. Its 

 pod is well formed and not apt to burst, the petals of first rate form, 

 and the flower about the size of Mrs. Hemmingway. It deserves to 

 be, and I am sure soon will be, in 'the collection of every amateur 

 who is fond of this tribe of Nature's autumnal visitors. 



Should the foregoing remarks be acceptable to the readers of the 

 Cabinet, I shall pursue the subject at a future opportunity ; and in a 

 subsequent paper I shall offer a few similar impartial remarks on a 

 few of the best Carnations at present in cultivation in the North of 

 England. 



Fclton Bridge End, September 11th, 1841. 



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