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CEUlet Parfait (Paris). — Deej) yellow, striped with red ; tiio 

 colours well defined ; large size, Hat, well rounded, but thin petals ; 

 good outline. Very sliowj--, but of drooping habit. Ileiglit 4 feet. 



Picotee (Paris). — Pale yellow or sulphur, striped witli crimson ; 

 large deep flower, irregular in arrangement and coarse ; requires very 

 moderate growth ; constant. Height 4 feet. 



Striata Perfecta (Batteur). — Lavender, striped with crimson ; large 

 size, capital centre, good shape and outline ; constant. The best 

 striped flower out ; erect habit. May be grown strong and well thinned. 



Therese Richter. — White, spangled with purple; large, flat, and 

 coarse; the petals long and reflex. With moderate growth often 

 showable, and particularly pleasing. 



I think I have now enumerated all the good sorts that are out which 

 I know. Of the new flowers, your own remarks, as published in the 

 present (January) number, agree very much with the opinions I had 

 formed of those I saw. 



ON ARRANGING STANDS OF FLOWERS. 



Exhibitors of florists' flowers cannot have their attention too urgently 

 directed to the necessity of uniformity in arranging their stands of 

 blooms, and yet so little is this regarded that out of the hundreds of 

 stands of Dahlias which we saw during last autumn, two-thirds of them 

 appeared to have been set up regardless of oi'der or contrast. Tlie 

 following- observations on the point will be of some service to those 

 who have paid little attention thereto ; we gather them from Glenm/s 

 Almanac for the present year, a little annual remembrancer of which 

 Ave may remark by the way is in no degree behind its predecessors, and 

 of much practical utility to tlie amateur florist. 



" Uniformity is one of the material points in making up a stand, yet 

 we see constantly the heavy flowers_ huddled together at one end, and 

 light ones at tiie other, when the slightest attention to order would 

 make variety and contrast striking and effective. We are aware of all 

 the difficulties which difl^erences of size create, and of another series of 

 difficulties arising from the want of variety ; all we care to enforce is 

 the necessity of making tlie best of what we have. There are certain 

 flowers which balance each other pretty well, although very different 

 in colour ; scarlet and orange, white and pale yellow, orange and deep 

 yellow, bright lilac, or rose, and the heaviest of the tipped or mottled 

 whites, and all the light and white flowers. In fact, we have only to 

 range them all under light flowers and dark ones to make a stand 

 uniform. A stand of twelve is the most difficult, but even here it is to 

 be done. Let D represent dark flowers, and L light ones ; they may 

 be thus arranged : — 



L D D L 



D L L D 



L D D L 



Can anything be more simple than this? And be it remembered that 

 it is better to have a flower a little less, or even a little worse, to be 

 subservient to this arrangement, than to have dark flowers predominate. 



