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season, or its tuber, (if of that class) may not be large enough to give 

 vigour for blooming the first season. If it be a hothouse species, it will, 

 of coarse, require such a temperature. The Tecoma does not usually 

 bloom till it has got well established. Jt is highly probable it will bloom 

 next year .—Cond.] 



On a Select list of Tulips.— If some of your numprous readers would 

 furnish a list of some realy good, but not high priced Tulips, such as come 

 within the reach ot Amateurs of moderate means. The colours also, and 

 any observations which would be a guide to the purchase of a small collec- 

 tion, it would I am confident be useful to many of your readers, and more 

 particularly so, to E n j^ 



[The following is a selection of superior kinds grown in the splendid col- 

 lection ot Messrs. Lockhart's, Seedsmen, Cheapside, at their grounds 

 Fulbam. 



TULIPS. — Blybloems and Roses. 

 d. 



Ambassaduer de Hollande 



Bienfait Incomparable 



Cerise Prine 



Grotuis . 



La Majestueuse 



L'arbre de Diane 



Roi de Siam 



Washington . . 



Rose Heb6 . 



" Reine des Fleurs 



" Pretiosa 



" Miniature . , 



" Vestalis 



Aeolus 

 Asdrubae 

 Charbon Noir 

 Feu de Courtray 

 Francis des Princes 

 Gloria Mundi 

 Kirrhus 

 Goud beurs 

 La Mignonne 

 Le Devil 

 Trafalgar 



Surpasse Catafalque 

 Caravuta 



9. 



7 

 5 

 2 

 5 

 5 

 5 

 7 

 2 

 1 

 3 



2 

 l 



3 



Imperatrice Romaina 

 " de Maroc 



Do little 



Comle de Vergennes 

 Armida 

 Abigail 

 Belle Jacomine 



" Judaique . 

 General Woronzow 

 Maitre parlout . 

 Bacchus 

 La Sultane 

 Princess d'Austria 



Bizards. 



3 

 2 

 £ 

 2 

 5 

 .5 

 S 



6 

 6 

 6 



6 

 

 

 6 

 1 6 



1 

 I 

 1 

 7 

 3 



Gaigantua 

 Gordianus . 

 La Lueur 

 Mallagrida . 

 Pontifex Maximus 

 Prince de Roebec 

 Mount Vesuvius 

 Goudberg . 

 Passe d'Alost 

 Brisson 



Abbd de St. Andr6 

 Electeur de Cologne 

 Incomparable Premier 



COND.j 



ANSWER. 



On sending Dahlias to tub ANTiPODEs.-In answer to S., who wishes t« 

 know how to send Dahlias to the Antipodes, I beg to say, that in November 

 18»& I dispatched a collects to Bombay which were remarkably Won 

 he voyage, exceeding four months,, and they arrived in very fineVese^va- 

 t.on. The method ,s snnply packing them in pounded charcoal i n 

 box. I hope *oon to give you an account of their altered nature ■ in Au u* 

 i heard they had grown to the height of twenty feet, with a stem he thff 

 n e.s of a mans arm, and covered with bloom; they flowered during the 

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