56 floricultural gleanings. 



Clark's London. 

 Clark's London is another very beautiful scarlet bizarre, although 

 I have never yet had the pleasure of seeing it well and strongly 

 grown, and the blooms were, in consequence, rather small. But this 

 most probably arose from the weakness of the plants. The markings, 

 however, were very beautiful, the scarlet and maroon stripes being 

 very regular, and the white good ; and I have no doubt, when suc- 

 cessfully grown, that it will be a very desirable variety. 



Butt's Lord Rodney. 

 Butt's Lord Rodney is another old purple flaked Carnation and 

 gets to rather a superior size. It is a great favourite with the florists 

 on " the banks of the Tyne," but has never been in any repute here. 

 Its outer petals being very large, it is capable of being dressed out to 

 a very great size, although this must always give the flower an ap- 

 pearance of great flatness which certainly would diminish its value 

 considerably in the opinion of many a good judge. It is however a 

 very great favourite at Newcastle-on-Tyne, and in conjunction 

 with 



Sherwood's Corinthus, 



and two or three others, may be almost said to set more modern, and 

 certainly far more beautiful, competitors at defiance. Corinthus is a 

 variety which generally gets to a very large size, but it is difficult to 

 describe it much further, the colours being so exceedingly pale. It 

 is a sort of purple bizarre, but the purple is so very faint that it 

 generally has the appearance of only a milky hue, little darker than 

 the white itself. This makes it valueless in this neighbourhood, 

 where brilliancy of colours is, I may say, now quite indispensable. 

 Instead therefore of " cumbering our ground with such varieties as 

 Sherwood's Corinthus we prefer ornamenting our beds with such 

 superior ones as 



Hepworth's Leader, 



which must be admitted by all to be a first-rate scarlet bizarre — a 

 diamond of the first water. The flower gets to an excellent size, 

 the petals are of first-rate form, and the pod long and not very liable 

 to bursting. The petals are beautifully striped with brilliant scarlet 

 and dark maroon upon an excellent white ground, the darker colour 



