CHAPTER VII 

 FANCY OR DECORATIVE PANSIES 



"There's Pansies, that's for thoughts." 



THE following selection includes fifty of the best, named 

 varieties. All are good growers and capable of producing 

 large and beautiful flowers on long stems : 



Alexander B. Douglas has glossy black blotches margined 

 with crimson and white. 



A. H. Martin is a purple blotched flower belted with yellow; 

 the top petals are reddish purple shaded with yellow. 



Archd. Milloy (Lister). This has dark, violet blotches mar- 

 gined with chrome yellow and rose ; the top petals 

 are yellow and rose with violet base. 



Coronation (Smellie) has plum-coloured blotches, edged 

 with a creamy white ; upper petals cream, heavily 

 edged with violet. 



Duke of Argyle (Ollar), a flower marked with large, dark 

 blotches, edged with lemon-yellow and rose ; the upper 

 petals are dark purple suffused with rose. 



David Wilson (Dobbie), a violet blotched variety belted with 



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