88 CHOICE VARIETIES OF FLORISTS' FLOWERS. 



CHOICE VARIETIES OF FLORISTS' FLOWERS, 



RANUNCULUSES. 



BY OBSERVER. ^ 



It is an oft-repeated inquiry of amateurs, in our floral periodical!*, 

 >»'hich are the best twenty-four or thirty-six varieties of a certain 

 favourite flower? and tliough the replies of experienced cultivators are 

 at all times valuable, yet a better, because a more public and impartia. 

 Jest of merit, is to be found in the reports of the winning flowers at 

 any of our great horticultural and floral exhibitions. As this is the 

 season for planting Ranunculuses, it may be useful to your readers to 

 inform them that the following twenty-four sorts obtained the large 

 silver medal at the Chiswick show, held June 13, 1846. The stand 

 was from Messrs. Tyso, of Wallingford. 



Alexis (Tyso's), yellow ground, brown spot, distinct and fine. 

 Attractor (Tyso's), white ground, large, heavy purple edging. 

 Burns (Waterston's), wliite ground, light purple edging. 

 Charlotte (Bartlett's), white, with delicate rosy mottling, fine form. 

 Champion (Tyso's), white ground, purple edging, large flower. 

 Creon (Tyso's), pure lemon ground, with dark coffee edging. 

 Delectus (Tyso's), rich yellow, Avith delicate red margin. 

 Flaniinius (Tyso's), fine yellow, with distinct bright spot. 

 Gozan (Tyso's), bufl:' ground, scarlet edging. 

 Glenelg (Tyso's), clear yellow ground, coffee spot. 

 Lydia (Tyso's), yellow ground, heavily mottled with scarlet, extra 



fine. 

 Lelex (Tyso's), yellow groimd, good spot. 

 Marquis of Hereford (raiser unknown), rich crimson. 

 Pasca (Tyso's), white ground, rosy mottling. 

 Pavia (Tyso's), cream ground, purple spot. 

 Poliander (Tyso's), yellow ground, distinct spot. 

 Queen Victoria (Kilgour's), white, finely edged with purple, large. 

 Sobraon (Tyso's), ne^v dark crimson. 

 Serena (unknown), cream, carmine spot. 

 Sophia (unknown), cream ground, rosy edging. 

 Sabina (Costar's), yellow, fine full flowers. 

 Speculator (Costar's), cream ground, with scarlet mottling. 

 Tippoo Saib (Costar's), rich dark self. 

 Victor (Tyso's), fine dark plum colour. 



COBEA SCANDENS. 



BV G. L., PORTSmOUTH. 



To any of your readers who may wish for a quick growing creeper 

 I can strongly recommend the Coboca Scandens ; it has covered a 

 veranda 40 feet long the second year of its growth, in fact it grew so 

 luxuriantly that I was obliged to cut away much of it ; it bloomed 

 beautifully tlie whole autumn, and has also fruited and ripened seeds. 

 It stands the winter, too, very well here. 



