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“2, The centre, which is composed of florets, should form half a ball, 
and the more it covers the principal or guard petals the better. 
**3. ‘These florets should be thick, large, whole on the edges, perfectly 
free from fringe, or notch, or raggedness all over. 
“4. The colour should be dense, instead of watery and transparent 
or washy, as that of the hollyhock is generally. ‘The more bright and 
novel the more desirable. 
“5. The spike should be close, the flowers touching each other, and 
tapering from the bottom to the top; the footstalks of the flower being 
longer at the lower end of the spike than at the upper end. 
“6, There is no fixed height for the plant; but the flowers should 
begin one foot from the ground, and open all at once.” 
The following possess most of the above properties, and are the best 
that we have seen during the past season :— 
Achmet—dark maroon. 
Attraction—veined chocolate and white. 
Aurantia—salmon-orange. 
Black Prinece—black. 
Blue Beard—dark ground, with light edge. 
Bicolor—purple and white. 
Comet—ruby-red ; very superb. 
Commander-in-Chief—light, with rosy margin. 
Delicata—French-white. 
Defiance—maroon. 
Enchantress—deep pink. 
Fire Ball—bright red. 
Formosa—dark claret. 
Fulgens—bright glossy crimson. 
Magnum Bonum—fine maroon. 
Model of Perfection—chocolate and white. 
Mount Etna—rich crimson. 
Mr. C. Baron—delicate salmon-pink. 
Mulberry Superb—deep crimson. 
Napoleon—red and buff. 
Obscura—grey and purple shaded. 
Pallida—pale lilac. 
Pulchella—light rose. 
Queen—beautiful blush. 
Rosea alba—rose and white. 
grandiflora—rosy-pink. 
Snowball—white. 
Sulphurea perfecta—sulphur. 
Surprise—deep rosy-crimson. 
Wellington—rosy-red. 
William Tell—purple-crimson. 
LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
THERE are certain subordinate expressions which may be considered 
as qualities of the beautiful, and which may originally so prevail in 
