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the southern catalogues. A truss of six pips is standing before me 

 on a small plant, and therefore I conclude it is a very good trusser. 

 The tube is well elevated above the eye, which is a good yellow, the 

 ground a dark brownish crimson, and the lacing light and extremely 

 regular. The segment divisions are also very correct. It seems a 

 very desirable variety, and worthy of being better known in the 

 southern parts of the kingdom. 



Crownshaw's Invincible. 



This variety is not near so good as its name would indicate. It is 

 a very correctly laced variety, but the corolla is so extremely angular 

 that he who named it Invincible has been guilty of a complete mis- 

 nomer. If it never blooms better than it has done here, this season, 

 I should pronounce it unworthy of introduction into a choice col- 

 lection. 



I intend to pursue this subject as opportunity offers, as the subject 

 is by no means exhausted. 



Felton Bridge End, June 1, 1843. 



[We shall be glad of the continuance by our respected friend. — 

 Conductor.] 



ARTICLE III. 



A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF TULIPS. 



BY MR. JOHN SLATER, FLORIST, CHEETHAM HILL, NEAR MANCHESTER. 



Another season has passed over, which, notwithstanding its un- 

 favourableness, has afforded opportunities of collecting further in- 

 formation for the benefit of the amateur Tulip grower. I have been 

 at considerable expense this season that I might make such corrections 

 to what notes were made during the last, and I can see only one that 

 needs correction, and that one is Cerise Royale. I find I have been 

 imposed upon by a foul-bottomed Tulip, similar in character, but 

 different inasmuch as the true one has a pure one. The person I 

 noticed in former communications has continued publishing all 

 manner of libellous matter, which he calls criticisms, upon my 

 catalogue, without daring to reply to my last defence of it; and if he 

 had taken the advice of Cumberland, who says, " Let every disputant 

 make truth the only object of his controversy," he would have done 



