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Baquet, David, Transparent Noir, feathered and slightly flamed, and 

 Constant, also feathered and slightly flamed, a very fine variety, and 

 infinitely superior to David, being as pure as possible at opening, and 

 the petals much rounder at the top, a point in which David is de- 

 cidedly deficient. Of flamed Byblomens every amateur has his 

 favourites, and we may mention Grand Prior, Incomparable la 

 Panache, Perle Blanche, Alexander Magnus, La Bran Diana, Tour 

 de Salisbury, La Belle Violet, Violet Favourite Burke, and Law- 

 rence's Friend, as possessing both properties. Holmes's King is also 

 remarkably pure, and prettily pillared up the centre of each petal. 

 Some of these are not catalogued in the south, but we are not to be 

 deterred from thinking highly of them on that account. They may 

 perhaps turn out to be synonyms, the constant plague of the enter- 

 prising florist. 



Of the feathered Bizarres, Demetrius, Trafalgar, Goude Boeurs, 

 Abercrombie, Ophir, Surpass Catafalque, Charles X., Charbonnier 

 Noir, and Maddox's Yellow, may be mentioned, the last of which 

 is a finely feathered and o pencilled bizarre, but unfortunately there is 

 a small speck at the bottom of each petal. 



The flamed bizarres are very splendid, and one of the finest that I 

 have ever seen was a bloom of Lawrence's Bolivar, which was grown 

 here last year. It was regularly feathered on every petal, and the 

 flaming uniform and perfect ; and those who have seen Strong's 

 Titian, Ophir, Lawrence's Shakspeare, Paul Potter, Lawrence's Da- 

 mascus, and Tyso's Polydora, grown in perfection, as I saw them last 

 year, will not readily forget them. I will not enter the floricultural 

 arena and give an opinion in the case of " Strong's King and Poly- 

 phemus, versus Charbonnier and others," for there is so much to 

 praise and admire in those I have enumerated, that really they leave 

 one little to hope for or care about. Certainly, if I wished to elevate 

 any individual Tulip to the " championship of England," I would 

 say frankly and fearlessly, it must be Dickson's " Duke of Devon- 

 shire." I had the pleasure of seeing it growing in the valuable and 

 almost general collection of Thomas Bromfield, Esq., of Waren Mills, 

 last May, and certainly it far exceeded anything that I ever saw 

 before. It is a very strong growing middle-row bizarre, finely 

 feathered, and flamed with a dark brown, approaching to black, on a 

 brilliant yellow ground, over which the hand of nature has laid a fine 



