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ALPINES 



Have the outer petals shaded by a mixture of two 

 colours, not separated into distinct bands of colour, as 

 m the edged varieties ; and the paste round the tube 

 is yellow instead of white, as in the edged and selfs. 



Emmerson's Favourite 

 Fieldhouse's Fair Rosa- 

 mond 

 King of the Alps 

 Queen Victoria 

 Conspicua 

 Rising Sua 

 Fair Helen 



Kettleby's True Blue 



Margaret 



President 



Victoria 



Village Maid 



Miss Fieldhouse 



Captain Frazer 



CHARACTERISTICS OF EXCELLENCE. 



As florists have several terms relative to the Auricula 

 which may be not understood by every amateur, 

 we may as well here explain that the thrum is a col- 

 lective name for the parts of fructification in the 

 very centre or tuhe of each flower. Paste is the 

 white colour next round the tube or eije of the flower. 

 Ground colour is the next colour to this on the petal, 

 being the distinctive colour of the variety. Edge is 

 the outer colour of all, forming the border of the 

 flower. A Pip is a single flower, and a Truss is seve- 

 ral pips, with their several footstalks springing from 

 one stem common to them all. 



