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will, no doubt, soon be plentiful. It should be grown in every 

 collection. 



Ely's Viceroy. 

 This is another excellent Picotee, with rather a heavy edge of 

 darkish scarlet. I think Ely has it classed among his light edges, 

 but in my opinion it should be among the heavy edged ones, as its 

 lacing extends a good breadth from the edges of the petals, and the 

 touches of Nature's brush from the lacing are very light and trifling. 

 It possesses a most beautiful long pod, and its appearance when the 

 petals are pushing out of it is delightful, never troubling the grower 

 with bursting, although it is well filled with petals. It is an excellent 

 variety for the competing florist. 



Gedding's Marchioness of Townshend. 

 This is another of Gedding's rose-edged Picotees, and is a very- 

 distinct variety. It is much superior in size to the Hemmingford 

 Beauty described last year, but it is not such a fine white ground, as 

 it has quite a creamy appearance when the flower first expands, which 

 only partly goes off after the flower has stood a few days. It has a 

 very pretty rose edge, and the centre of the flower well filled with 

 petals, but the ground not being good, I am afraid it will never be 

 successful in serving the competing florist. 



Wood's Queen Victoria. 

 This is a very pale and delicate Picotee indeed, having the slightest 

 possible scarlet edge, and the ground colour very white, but the flower 

 seems rather small, and the stem so hard and brittle that the least 

 shaking is sure to snap it off, to the great mortification of the grower. 

 If it can be grown a good size, however, it will be a very delicate and 

 desirable variety of the class to which it belongs. 



Rosella de Rohan. 

 This is an old variety of the yellow ground class, and does not 

 seem to me to be much inferior to many of the newer ones with 

 yellow grounds. The yellow, however, is rather pale, and the edging- 

 rosy, with a trifling stroke here and there in the middle of the petals. 

 The flower is only of the middle size. 



Gill's Enchantress. 

 This is another very excellent Picotee, and is classed among the 





