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Queen Victoria; Conspicuous; Rising 

 Sun ; Fair Helen; Kettleby's True Blue. 

 Selfs: Redmayn's Metropolitan; Ne- 

 therwood's Otliello ; Berry's Lord Lee ; 

 Clegg's Blue Bonnet; Kay's Jupiter; 



should form a perfect circle of a dense 

 pure white, clean on its edges, even, 

 and free from blemishes. 



" The band of colour surrounding the 

 eye should be dark, rich, or bright, 



Kenyon's Freedom; Gorton's Stadt- 'joining the margin with a feathery edge, 

 holder, iyrJlow.) Huflon's Squire IMun- ! equally distributed all round, but never 

 day. Lastly, these are worthy of a encroaching so much upon the edge as 

 place in any collection. Green-edged : j to pass through to the rim. 

 Ilopworth's Robin Hood ; Moore's " The margin or outer edge must be 

 Jubilee; Lightbody's Star of Beth- | of a permanent green or grey colour.^ 

 lehem ; Stretch's Alexander. Grey- The circles which compose the face of 

 edged: Atcherley's Alpine Shepherd- the pip are considered of the finest prO' 



ess; Metcalfe's Lancashire Hero: 

 Ashworth's Newton Hero; Simpson's 

 Lord of Hallamshire; Kent's Queen 

 Victoria. White-edged : Lily of the 

 Valley ; Wild's Bright Phoebus ; Leigh's 

 Earl Grosvenor. Se/fs .• Oddie's Rest, 

 Goldfinch, (yellow,) Faulkner's Han- 

 nibal ; Bradsliaw's Tidy. I ought to 

 have stated that the amateur's first 

 collection comprises such as are not 

 high priced, and yet good ; but it must 

 not be forgotten that the second addi 



portion when they are of a nniform 

 width, that of each circle being half the 

 diameter of the tube." — Gard. Citron. 



Propngatio/i is effected by taking slips 

 from and dividing roots of approved va- 

 rieties, after the seed has ripened in 

 July and August. 



Diseases. — The auricula is liable to 

 have its roots ulcerated or cankered if 

 the pots are not well drained. This is 

 best done by having the pots one-fourth 

 filled with rubbly charcoal, and the soil 



tion contains all the first-rate varieties i not too much divested of pebbles. At 



in cultivation, with very few excep- 

 tions." — Gard. Chron. 



Characteristics of excellence. — " In 

 its general appearance, the foliage 

 should be well grown and healthy, 

 covering a space about equal to double 



the blooming time the aphis or greenfly 

 sometimes attacks the plants ; these can 

 only be removed individually by means 

 of a camel's-hair pencil. 



AVENUE, is a road bordered by 

 trees on each side, and being, as ob- 



the width of the head of bloom. The served by Whately, confined to one ter- 



Ktem should be firm, erect, and suffi- 

 ciently strong to support the truss with- 

 out assistance, and to carry it well above 

 the foliage. The foot-stalks of the pip 

 should be strong and of such a length 

 as will allow the flowers to open with- 

 out one overlaying another, the whole 

 forminsj a compact globular head of 



mination, and excluding every view on 

 the sides, has a tedious sameness 

 throughout ; to be great it must be dull, 

 and the object to which it is appropri- 

 ated is after all seldom shown to advan- 

 tage. Buildings in general do not ap- 

 pear so large, and are not so bcautifuJ 

 when looked at in front, as when they 



well expanded flowers equal in size and are seen from an angular situation, which 

 similar in properties. ! commands two sides at once, and throws 



" The addition of one or two guard- them both in perspective ; but a wind- 

 leaves, standing up at the back of the ; ing lateral approach is free from these 

 truss, gives a finish to the whole, and , objections, it may besides be brought 

 adds considerably to its beauty by the ! up to the house without disturbing any 

 contrast thev form with the vivid and ' of the views from it, but an avenue cuts 



lively appearance of the flowers 



the scenery directly in two, and reduces 



The qualities which the individual all the prospect to a narrow vista. A 

 pip should possess consist in its being 1 m«re line of perspective, be the extent 

 perfectly round, flat and smooth on the ' what it may, will seldom compensate 

 edge ; the divisions which form the seg- j for the loss of that space which it divides, 

 nients of the corolla should be but and of the parts which it conceals, 

 slightly indented, thereby rendering the ' These kind of walks were formerly much 



circles more perfect. 



more the fashion than they arc at pre- 



" The tube or centre must be round, ' sent : where they arc to be made, the 

 of a yellow colour, filled with the an- j common elm answers very well for the 

 thers or thrum. purpose in most grounds, except such 



" The eye or paste round the tube I as are very wet and shallow, and pre- 



