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others are in the same style, " the colours of which on blooming were red, 

 brown, and dark purple ; in one or two blossoms the white ground was 

 scarcely perceptible ; for a very broad coloured margin, with numerous 

 close lines and dots, covered nearly the whole of each petal ; all of which 

 were traced and marked with the greatest regularity : the names of the 

 most remarkable sorts in this way are, the Queen of Wirtemberg, Brun- 

 hilde, Pythagoras, and Paganini." In consequence of the vast improve- 

 ment that has of late years taken place in picotees, " there is a more 

 correct and nicer taste abroad, and the old sorts, with jagged edges, have 

 nearly all disappeared." The kind called Prince George of Cambridge is 

 recommended as a ver}^ superior flovv'er ; whether in the style of the above 

 is not stated ; but most probably not. — 195. Adrian Ranunculus. Drawn 

 from the garden of W. Strong, Esq., of Brook Green. " Flowers double, 

 and rather handsome, but the petals are rather loosely disposed, of a beau- 

 tiful yellow colour, tinged with green towards the base." — 196. Law- 

 rance's La Joie Tulip. An elegant bybloemen. " Flower-stem erect, bear- 

 ing a leaf below the middle ; flowers large and spreading when in full bloom ; 

 petals broadly ovate, quite blunt, and rounded at the points, tapering to the 

 base, imbricate at the edges, pure white, neatly edged with dark velvety 

 purple, feathered inwards, and sometimes marked with irregular stripes of 

 the same colour in the centre." Was raised by W.Clark, Esq. and broken 

 by Mr. Lawrance (see Obituary, p. 639.). " It is of dwarf growth, and fit 

 for the first or seventh row ; it seldom varies in size, shape, or colour, 

 and is valued at five guineas the root." 



The Horticultural Register, and General Magazine of all useful and interesting 

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 by Joseph Paxton, F.H.S., Gardener and Forester to the Duke of Devon- 

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-ZVb. I. for July, contains 



An introduction, in which the conductors state, what they call, " the 

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" The primary object we have in bringing the present work before the 

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