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phina; and this season the head of flowers is 10 feet round and 3 feet high. 

 I have four bulbs, and thus secure a bloom every season. I plant it in a large 

 well-drained pot,_a 16. Keep it in a light greenhouse all the winter exposed to 

 plenty of light ; in summer remove it to a pit or frame, exposed to the sun, and 

 kept shut. The pot stands in a pin of sand, which is kept moist. The flower- 

 stem appears in July or Augost, and flowers early in September. It is then cut 

 down, and the plant removed to the greenhouse, but by no means plunged in 

 bottom-heat. The appearance of the leaves is delayed by flowering, so that the 

 plant seldom completes its growth the year it flowers, as in the alternate years. 



Paui.ownia imperialis. — This fine plant, the first brought into Europe, has 

 bloomed for the third time in the Garden of Plants at Paris. It had 150 ter- 

 minal heads, about 15 inches long, of flowers, there being from twenty to thirty 

 blossoms in each. The plant produced a most beautiful effect, in such profusion 

 of light blue flowers, as to be a complete bouquet. It deserves a place in every 

 warm pleasure garden. Curator. 



The Polyanthus. — Among Polyanthuses there have not been so many can- 

 didates for floral honours as among other florist flowers, consequently there are 

 less synonymes in this class than in any other. The few that have been twice 

 named have been done so apparently by mistake ; and those few were raised by 

 Mr. Hufton, of Nottinghamshire, well kown for having introduced many good 

 Carnations and Picotees. as well as Polyanthuses. It is said that Mr. Clegg, 

 of this neighbourhood, who bought the stuck, named them, and that Mr. Hufton 

 also did the same; they are known principally by the name the latter gave 

 them, in the midland counties. 



The Polyanthus has experienced less improvement than any other class of 

 florist flower, ami this is principally owing to the great sameness in seedlings to 

 the parent from which they were raised. The following list contains the whole of 

 the Polyanthuses cultivated in this neighbourhood ; they are classed according 

 to their merits, and are not distinguished by the colour of the ground — as daik 

 red and scarlet. 



First Class. 



^orgt 



Barrow's Duchess of Sutherland 

 Buck's George the Fouith 

 Bullock's Lancer 

 CleL'g's Lord Crewe, alias Gi;or«e 



Canning 

 Crownshaw's Invincible 

 Collier's Princess Hoy al 

 Cox's Regent 

 Eckersley's Jolly Dragoon 

 (-ribbon's Sovereign 

 General Bolivar 

 Fletcher's Defiance 

 Hilton '« President 



I {niton's Karl Grey, alias Clegg'sLord 

 John Russell. 



Hufton's Lord RanclifTe, alias Clegg's 

 Prince of Orange, and Clegg's Gol- 

 den lle:o 



Hufton's Lord Lincoln 



Maude's Beauty of Kitglaiul 



Nicholson's Bang Europe 



Ollier's Beauty of Over 



Pearson's Alexander 



Saunders's Cheshire Favourite 



AVuod's Espartero 



Good's Independent 



Beauty of Coven 

 Buckley's Squire Slarkie 

 Bumard's Formosa 

 Dew's Britannia 

 Faulkner's Black Prince 

 Fillinghain's Tantarar.i 

 Queen's Earl Fitzwilliam 

 Hepwurth's Elisabeth 

 Jolly Sailor 



Cheetham Hill, Manchester. 



Second Class. 



Nicholson's Ranger 

 , , Nonsuch 



" Ki ."- 



Sir S) dni'y Smith 



Head's Telegraph 



Tomer's Kmperur Buonaparte 



, , Princess 

 Timni's Defiance, and 

 Yorksliiic Regent. 



* John Sl lTEB. 



