130 ON A LIST AND DESCRIPTION OT CARNATIONS. 



STONE'S VENUS, P. P. B. 



Found in the catalogues under the head of pink and purple ba- 

 zarres, occasionally looses its pink, and settles down into a flake : in 

 each character I have seen it shewn in the same pan, in both it 

 commands a first rate place as a bazarre, it is certainly most to 

 be valued, there being so few pink and purples worthy of notice, 

 or that can boast of both colours so distinctly marked as in the 

 Venus. It has been out now many years, yet being difficult to 

 strike, is still scarce, and fetches a high price, 15s. the pair, be- 

 ing very generally demanded. 



young's earl grey, c. b. 

 With this flower in a collection, the grower may be pretty 

 certain of being able hi due season to cut a good crimson ba- 

 zarre. I do not know a flower on which greater dependence can 

 be placed ; I have now grown it for several seasons, and have 

 invariably shewn it with success ; a better, but certainly, not a 

 more useful flower can be grown. 



MARTIN'S PRESIDENT, P. F. 



I do not think I can recommend a better purple flake to notice 

 than Martin's President. I have bloomed it for five or six sea- 

 sons, and it has never failed to produce me good show-flow- 

 ers. I must allow I have occasionally seen blooms of other sorts 

 superior, but I believe, as much dependence is to be placed on 

 this as any flower extant, its fault is that of sometimes throw- 

 in°- the bloom high above the calyx, so that unless great care is 

 taken in dressing (particularly if the flower is a little stale) it will 

 not bear the removal of the artificial support, occasionally drop- 

 ing a guard leaf after being placed for exhibition. 



WILMER's CONQUERING HERO, S. B. 



Were it possible to combine the merits of two flowers, I should 

 only desire to rob Fletcher's Duke of Devonshire of its brilliancy 

 in favour of this; and the Conquering Hero would be the best 

 scarlet bazarre ever raised, it can boast of every good property 

 in a flower, save being a little dull in colour, but yet so trifling is 

 this defect, that is hardly perceptible except in close contact with 

 such a flower as the Duke of Devonshire. It is very large, dis- 

 tinctly bazarred, and rose-leaved. — The next flower I shall call 

 attention to is 



