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addition to his stock, he will most probably have the mortification of 

 finding that his blooms are far too heavy in colour, and unfit for 

 exhibition ; while, on the other hand, if he is content to wait pa- 

 tiently, and grow them in common garden soil with an annual 

 addition of a little decomposed pasture sward, he will not have such 

 large bulbs, and not such a speedy addition to his stock of roots, 

 but he will have the far greater gratification of producing clean and 

 first rate blooms in the true character of the varieties in his pos- 

 session, which is the grand " consummation " aimed at by all Tulip 

 fanciers. 



In estimating the value of a feathered Tulip, the " Juvenile 

 Florist " must attend to the following particulars. The feathering 

 must commence pretty near the bottom of each petal, the heaviest 

 half way up at the greatest breadth of petal,* and also go completely 

 round the top without the least white spot to divide the feathering in 

 any one place. Clauuiana, Cerise. Blanche, Rosa Blanca, Comte de 

 Vergennes, Rose William, and Lavinia, may be mentioned among 

 the feathered roses as nearly fulfilling these conditions, although they 

 frequently bloom with a deficiency of the feathering round the top, 

 the ground colour running up and interrupting it, and in that case 

 must be considered imperfect. " Dutch Ponceau " is marked 

 something after the same manner, and has the broadest petal at the 

 top of any Tulip that I have yet seen. 



Of the flamed Roses we may mention Triomphe Royal, Duchess of 

 Clarence, Cerise Primo, Ceres Triumphant, Rose Unique, Rose 

 Quarto, Monsieur Pitt, Clio, and Madame Vestris, as fine specimens 

 of clean bottomed flamed flowers ; the great beauty of a flamed 

 flower consisting in having a beam up the centre of each petal with 

 regular branching out to the edge, and when to this flaming is added 

 a regular feathering round the edge, the bloom may fairly be con- 

 sidered perfect. 



Of feathered Byblomens we may enumerate Ambassador, Black 



* We would not, wish to be understood to insist upon the feathering being 

 exactly thus: for some varieties, such as Old Catafal iue, Captain White, 

 Maddox's Yellow &c, have it heavy round the top and beautifully pencilled 

 downwards about a fourth of the length of the petals. In either case they may 

 be considered perfect and unexceptionable, so long as the feather is unbroken 

 round the top. 



W. H. 



