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it direct from the raiser. 'Eliza' is a Pink flake of low growth, a 

 3hy breeder, and bad striker; 'Wonderful,' on the contrary, is a 

 high Rose flake, of taller and freer growth, a larger bloom, and in 

 all respects a wonderful deal the best flower. How they came 

 to be confounded, whether by accident or design I cannot tell, 

 but I believe 'Wonderful' is generally sold for both. What I 

 consider the true 'Eliza' being comparatively scarce. 



Wouldknow. What pale coloured flower is this, it seems to 

 be a crimson or purple Bizarre, but the quantity of dark colour 

 is very small ? 



Bloomwell. That flower should be a caution to you not al- 

 ways to expect the highest priced flowers to be the best, it is 

 called Huggin's Brilliant. But in what its brilliancy consists 

 I have yet to learn. I have grown it these three years, and 

 the bloom you now see on it, is the best in colour I have 

 had. In Mr. Hogg's Catalogue for 1830, it is offered at twen- 

 ty shillings per pair. If it never blooms better than I have 

 seen it, it would be too dear at twenty pairs for a shilling ; 

 for to my fancy, a flower that is short of colour has the great- 

 est fault possible. I would sooner have a rough edge, or a 

 deficiency of size, or any other single defect, where the co- 

 louring was splendid, than this defect of pale colouring, though 

 the flower was as large as a Dahlia. 



Wouldknow. What a fine high coloured rose flake the 

 next is, this will not loose your favour for want of colour. 



Bloomwell. True, but it sometimes looses it by having 

 too much, being rather subject to run, it is called Fletcher's 

 Duchess of Devonshire, and is said to be a sport from Greg- 

 ory's King Alfred, that fine old crimson Bazarre, in the next 

 pot. 



Wouldknow. Is it possible that this can be the case. 



Bloomwell. It certainly is possible, but the probabilities are 

 ten to one against it. 



{To be continued.) 



ARTICLE IV. 



ON WATER AND WATERING PLANTS. 



{Continued from p. 208.) 

 " Then he made choice of several sprigs of Mint, and other 

 Plants, that were, as near as he could judge, alike fresh, sound, 



