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ments of each individual corolla are too wide, or 

 should the flower have a disposition to cup, instead of 

 lying flat and smooth, these are drawbacks which no 

 briUiancy of colouring can counterbalance. Other 

 defects under this head consist in the disposition 

 which some flowers have to crack in the paste to- 

 wards the tube, which is sometimes the case in Page's 

 Champion ; also when the tube is not perfectly round, 

 and when the anthers or thrum do not fill its cavity, 

 but appear as if they had discharged their pollen, and 

 shrunk to half their size, as in Pearson's Badajoz. 

 Again, injuries which the corolla or pip may have re- 

 ceived from a chafe or bruise, also detract from form ; 

 and, in judging the merits of the respective flowers, 

 this would be considered a serious defect, though by 

 no means lowering the value of the plant, as this 

 drawback is either caused by accident or the careless- 

 ness of the exhibitor. 



Harmony, or the proper distribution of the colours. 

 Judges, on taking into consideration the proportions 

 of colour, will, of course, attach the greatest merit to 

 those pips where the eye or paste, the dark or body- 

 colour, and the edge of green, grey, or white, are dis- 

 tributed in the most equal proportions ; that is to 

 say, the nearer the distance between the tube and 

 inner margin of the dark band approximates in width 

 to the band itself, and the margin hkewise, the better 

 are the proportions. 



