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perhaps, larger and more regular; and, like Clegg's Prince of 

 Orange, the pips all of one height, and nearly all in bloom together. 

 This, I hope, will give it the advantage over Pearson, for I have only 

 bought it this spring, and therefore can only boast of a slight ac- 

 quaintance with it. 



Cox's Prince Regent. 

 The Prince Rescent is another excellent variety, though perhaps 

 not quite so attractive as many of the foregoing. It possesses a pretty 

 good eye, the ground colour a darkish brown, and the lace very regular. 

 The pipes are very circular, the divisions in the corolla being shallow, 

 but the contrast between the colours of the eye and ground is not 

 striking, and the flower has generally rather a dull appearance. It 

 is, however, a very good trusser, with well flattened pips. 



Turner's Emperor Buonaparte. 

 This is another good Polyanthus, the eye being a good yellow, the 

 ground colour dark, and the lace light and neat. Having only been 

 lately brought into this neighbourhood, I cannot say more than that it 

 seems a very good and desirable variety. 



The Princess. 

 This is another excellent variety when well grown, which, however, 

 is rather difficult to accomplish, it being so very difficult to get ths 

 pips to expand. When well grown, however, it is excellent, the pips 

 being large and very circular, the eye a pure yellow, the ground a 

 dark brown, and the tube neatly elevated. For flatness of the pips 

 I think it equal to Fletcher's Defiance. I cannot say whose Princess 

 it is, as it is grown here under the name of The Princess. 



ECKERSLEYS JOLLY DRAGOON. 



This is another good Polyanthus, of the red ground class. The 

 pips are of a good size, the eye a fine yellow, the ground colour a 

 reddish scarlet, and the lace neat. It is well worthy of cultivation by 

 the competing amateur. 



Barkess's Bonny Bess. 



This is an old variety here, and has perhaps been one of the most 

 successful competitors ever exhibited, and will long be grown by the 

 Northumbrian florists as " The Queen of the days that are gone." 

 For largeness of truss I never heard of a variety that could equal 

 " Bonny Bess," it being no unusual thing for a fine circular truss of 



