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of the importer to whom names are an object, but are scarcely required for any 

 other purpose than to impart obesity to a catalogue. 



The White varieties necessarily admit of even less variation. The most 

 beautiful variety I have ever seen, and one that cannot be too highly com- 

 mended for its superb quality, is named Goldfinder. The flowers are very large, 

 globular, and pure in color, and have rich, dark-orange stamens. CaroHne Chis- 

 holm and Mrs. Beecher Stowe are undoubtedly the same. It is a dwarf-growing, 

 free-blooming kind, very useful for pots. Grand Conquerant is one of the most 

 novel white flowers I have yet met with, — pure white, edged with citron, and 

 extremely pretty, as well as free-blooming. Mont Blanc has large and bold pure 

 white flowers ; and, though classed with the White varieties, the insides of the 

 blooms are faintly pencilled with lilac. It is a robust-growing kind, useful for 

 out-door work. To these add Mammoth, a large white flower, changing to 

 cream ; Calypso, another creamy white ; and Queen Victoria, — and the list is 

 complete. A reserve list can be formed of the following varieties, — Mathilde, 

 Grand Vainqueur, Porpus, Isabella, Marie Antoinette, and Bride of Abydos. 



Of Edged flowers, — a very small division, — the variety named Duke of 

 Cumberland, previously described, can be regarded as one ; the old Ne Plus 

 Ultra, violet with white edge, a large, fine, and showy flower, is another ; and 

 Lord Wellington, deep violet edged with white, a small but pretty flower, com- 

 pletes the list of kinds I have seen. I find Ne Plus Ultra to be very effective out 

 of doors, and it has the additional recommendation of being very cheap. 



Lastly comes that somewhat numerous group including the Blue and Purple 

 varieties. Among these there are some beautiful kinds, large in size, and deep 

 in color. 1 find the darkest colored of the whole group — not simply the dark- 

 est on first expanding, but the darkest throughout the blooming period — to be 

 a variety with a rather small bulb, named Sir John Franklin. It is of a rich, 

 dark, glossy purple ; and it did remarkably well with me out of doors. David 

 Rizzio, often termed the darkest blue, is paler in color than the foregoing ; and 

 Prince Albert is paler still : yet both are fine, bold flowers. Prince of Wales is 

 identical in every respect with Prince Albert ; and Vulcan, a very large pale- 

 violet flower, is the same as Othello. Lilacens siiperbus is a somewhat distinct 

 kind, with a broad flake of a lilac tint up each petal. These are all the distinct 

 shades of blue, so called, I could possibly light upon. I add a supplementary 

 list of the following kinds which came under my notice, premising that they are 

 well represented by the foregoing : Baron von Brunnow, Brunei, Lamplighter, 

 Gen. Pelissier, Charles Dickens, Jupiter, Von Schiller, Sir R. Peel, Loveliness, 

 and La Simplicite. 



I am compelled to admit, that though, amongst tlie varieties in these reserve 

 lists of the several divisions of color, there were many points of resemblance, yet, 

 from a close and daily inspection, one seemed to be able to detect some small 

 and distinct traits of character, either in the size or shape, or in the purity or 

 depth of the color of the flowers, in the height they grew, in the time of flower- 

 ing, and even in the form, the color, and the greater or less prominence of the 

 stamens. — Abridged from Gardener'' s Chronicle. 



