REMARKS ON MR. GLENNy's ATTACK. 101 



General Barnevelde. — You say it is a bad tricoloured, then your 

 friend showed me another under that name. When I saw it in bloom 



at Lloyd's, Esq., of Clapham, it was one of the finest flamed 



byblomen tulips I ever saw. 



Gloria Alborum, described as a third row. — This is no great mis- 

 take; it is in two catalogues as a third, and two as a first. My 

 opinion of it is unaltered. 



Galatea unfortunately comes in for a share of your abuse, because 

 there happens to be an old flower under the same name, and in the 

 same class. This, notwithstanding all you may say against it, will 

 bear a comparison with any seedling raised in the south. 



Mason's Matilda. — Now any one who possesses common sense 

 would perceive the printer's mistake here. How can a byblomen be 

 like Triomphe lloyale in colour, and be an acquisition to the class of 

 flamed roses ? 



Reine de Mauritania, you say, is not like Triomphe Royale only 

 as a rose. I said it resembled it, and so do others besides, who are 

 more competent to give an opinion than you are. 



Reine de Sheba. — I find it as described, and I have had it from Mr. 

 Groom, and two others in the same neighbourhood. 



Sable Rex. — All you can say respecting it is because it is a tinged 

 bottom. 



Shakspeare, you assert, is not half so good in properties as Poly- 

 phemus. 



Charbonnier, &c. — Your darling Everard is not mentioned, although 

 you have, on more occasions than one, classed it, Strong's King, 

 Polyphemus, and Charbonnier, as the best bizarres cultivated. How 

 changed when an individual has none to sell. It has a much better 

 ground colour than those enumerated, and I find it steady as a stage 

 flower when the bad breaks are not sent out instead of fine strains. 

 I here pause to say a few words to the public, that they may know to 

 what extent your knowledge of the tulip extends. In the list of dear 

 and splendid varieties inserted by you in the Gazette of November 

 2i, you recommend Shakspeare, Gar rick, and Edmund Kean, all of 

 which are well known to be one and the same variety. 



Strong's King is correctly described, unless the late Mr. Strong 

 sold roots wrong, for the bloom was from a root from his collection, 

 and I must say every root of other sorts purchased from him were 



