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up of pencillings of very dark purple, which extend a good way down 

 from the edges of the petals. 



Sharp's Red Rover. 

 This Picotee deserves a more favourable notice than it received last 

 year, as, when well grown, it gets to an excellent size, and is a very 

 beautiful variety indeed. The edge is a heavy and brilliant red, and 

 the white very pure, with the lacing almost entirely confined to the 

 edges of the petals. The beginner, therefore, who is in want of 

 heavy-edged reds, can never be wrong in ordering Sharp's Red 

 Rover. 



Clegg's Fair Phyllis. 

 The white of this Picotee is very fine, and it is rather heavily 

 edged with a lightish purple. Jt is, however, rather deficient in 

 central petals, which is an objection that severe censors seldom pass 

 over ; and although very pretty, I am afraid it will not do much for 

 the competing florist. 



Mark Anthony. 

 This is a very good variety of the heavy-edged red class. It is 

 only of the middle size, but well filled with petals. Its lacing is 

 made up of very dark red pencillings, and contrasts well with the fine 

 pure white ground colour. 



Burn's Lady Prudhoe. 

 This is a new yellow Picotee, a seedling of this year, raised by that 

 enterprising and devoted florist Mr. Benjamin Burn, gardener to 

 Charles William Bigge, Esq., of Linden House. It carried off the 

 seedling prize at the Felton Exhibition, on Monday the 22nd of 

 August, and in the opinion of all present was well worthv of that 

 distinction. It is, in my opinion, the best yellow Picotee that has 

 yet appeared in the north. The ground colour is a much richer and 

 deeper yellow than that of he Papillon, Rosella de Rohan, or the 

 Emperor of China, and the lacing is a darkish blood red, entirely 

 confined to the edges of the petals, except in the middle, where there 

 are trifling pencillings about half way down the flattened parts. It 

 is a decided acquisition to the class to which it belongs, but it is 

 probable that this variety, valuable as it undoubtedly is, may never 

 be sold out and known beyond the locality where it has been raised ; 



