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Red Warrior. — Reflexed. Chestnut red, in the style of W. W. 

 Coles. 



Rena Dnla. — Incurved Japanese. Deep rich pink. 



Riverside. — Eeflexed. Deep canary yellow ; broad flat petals. 



Signal Light. — Incurved Japanese. Red bronze. 



Sibyl Kaije. — Japanese. Salmon pink ; reverse, clear yellow. 



The World. — Japanese. Very large flat flowers, with incurv- 

 ing petals, pure white. 



Tippecanoe. — Japanese Incurved. Terra cotta, with lighter 

 reverse ; a line exhibition flower. 



Violet King. — Japanese. Pink shaded violet. 



W. Mattheuis. — This must be the same as Governor Matthews. 

 Pale pink, turning to white. 



VIOLETS. 



It is always the object of the Committee to offer new prizes 

 as occasion requires, to encourage the good cultivation of any 

 special subject. In accordance with this principle a prize was 

 offered this year for the best bench or frames of violets, which are 

 in such demand during the winter months that a stimulus to good 

 cultivation is a public benefit. The violet disease has been very 

 troublesome to many growers, and a few abstracts from the pens 

 of experienced cultivators may not be out of place. Under the 

 head of " Garden Notes," " Garden and Forest," for 1893, page 337, 

 we read : " If we want strong clumps of violets to bloom well in 

 winter, we must cut off the runners now (August 9), and not Avait 

 for the violet disease to show itself before remedies can be ap- 

 plied. We hope to ward off a possible attack of disease by the 

 application of fungicides now. We have two batches, and one is 

 given an application of sulphide of potassium at the rate of half 

 an ounce to a gallon of water, the other a dusting of ' Grape dust ' 

 in twenty parts of air-slacked lime." On page 367 of the same 

 volume, E. 0. Orpet says, August 30 : " Our first preparation for 

 fall is to get the violets under glass as soon .as practicable, and at 

 this time every plant of the winter-flowering double kind, Lady 

 Hume Campbell, is safely under glass, either in the frames or the 

 heated house. The showery weather, and consequent humid 

 atmosphere, give the exact conditions favorable to the develop- 

 ment of disease, traces of which are already visible. This 



