12(5 REMARKS ON DESCRIPTIVE LISTS OF TUMI'S. 



If Mr. Glenny could mix his talent and his practice together, and 

 put aside that continued propensity which seems to encircle him, to 

 find fault with everything and every hody, his papers would then be 

 read with interest and pleasure ; and this conveyed to the public 

 without one tinge of spleen or discontent would be well received and 

 answer an useful purpose. 



I do not mean to say that Mr. Slater's catalogue is without faults, 

 but seems hardly worth mention, such as being set clown in different 

 rows to what we grow them here, and this will arise often from cultiva- 

 tion and localities. There is certainly a mistake in the description of 

 Triumph Royal, and what he grows for it cannot be what is grown 

 here ; what I grow for Triumph Royal is round in the petals, good 

 shoulder, and splendid cup ; and to my fancy, one of the finest Roses 

 we have. I hope the time is not far distant when we shall have a 

 descriptive list of Tulips as we have of the Dahlia, and then amateurs 

 will be well able to judge what will suit them. 



I do not like the fuss that is made about Polyphemus and Strong's 

 King being two of the best Bizarres grown ; that there are some fine 

 strains of Polyphemus is certain, but they are hard to get at, and to 

 one good one there are fifty bad; and perhaps there is not one 

 grower out of twenty who has a fine strain. What was Polyphemus 

 twelve or fifteen years since is now discarded ; such being the case 

 caution ought to be used in saying too much for it. As for Strong's 

 King, if there ever was any good blooms of it I have never been so 

 fortunate as to have seen them ; I do not grow it ; it sells at too high 

 a price for such a flower ; if at five shillings instead of five pounds it 

 would be more grown for variety's sake. In my opinion Pompre 

 Tcnnebre is a more decided good thing than either of the above, and 

 there are many others quite as deserving a place in a select bed. 



I was pleased with your figure of my friend Tyso's Polydora ; it is 

 a very pretty thing, and evidently broke from a Polyphemus breeder; 

 I saw a break some few years since from a Polyphemus breeder so 

 much like it that I recognised it again as soon as I saw the plate ; 

 there are a great many of these breeders in the hands of the fancy, 

 but their inclination to clear out are like angels' visits, few and far 

 between. 



May 8, 1843. 



