FLORICULTURAL GLEANINGS. 



particularly due to him for his kindness in furnishing the article, as 

 it will he a useful guide to the purchaser, heing the result of twelve 

 years' experience. 



The following remarks may even yet, perhaps, be not unaccept- 

 able, and if so, 1 shall be glad to see them inserted in the December 

 Number of the Cabinet. 



Ely's Mrs. Goldsworthy. 



This is another of Ely's numerous family— perhaps one of his very- 

 best pink and purple bizarres. The markings are very fine, the 

 white being remarkably pure, and the stripes of fine pink, and the 

 darker colour alternating very regularly, but the pink having the 

 predominence a little. It is of a very desirable size, the crown well 

 filled with central petals, quite a distinct variety, and altogether an 

 excellent show flower. 



Dai.ton's Lancashire Lass. 



The Lancashire Lass is a very beautiful rose flake, possessing a 

 very fine pure white ground, and finely striped with a brilliant rose 

 colour. Its external petals are not quite so large as those of many 

 of the bizarres already noticed, but it is still a desirable variety, 

 getting to an excellent size, and having a crown well filled with 

 central petals. 



Hoyle's Duke of Leeds. 



The Duke of Leeds is another very rich and showy scarlet bizarre, 

 somewhat similar to our old favourite Ely's Jolly Dragoon,— only 

 I think it rather lighter, and the petals not quite so large. It how- 

 ever possesses a well filled crown, and I have no doubt will be a 

 winning flower for many years to come. 



Wilson's William IV. 



This is a very pretty scarlet flake. The white is tolerably good, 

 and the stripes of scarlet very vivid. It is however only a middle- 

 sized flower, and ought to be grown strong, and pruned well before 

 it attains the desirable size for the competing florist. 

 Boothman's Harkaway. 



This is an exceedingly fine bizarre, and is among the pink or 

 crimsons. The pink is finely distributed in narrow stripes, and 

 perhaps some critics may consider it displaying a deficiency of the 

 darker colour in the striping: still it is very beautiful. The guard 



