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at once give a good supply of fine flowers. The other 

 half should be spent in a smaller number of the more 

 expensive kinds : these latter will gradually increase 

 and build up a fine collection. Begin chiefly with the 

 vigorous sorts, and as you gain experience in cultivation 

 add the more delicate and uncertain varieties. 



With a view to assisting beginners in this process, I 

 have prepared five lists which contain among them under 

 different heads most of the best varieties at present in 

 commerce. Lists A, B and C contain kinds which are 

 easily grown, and they are progressive in the matter of 

 expense. List D contains very beautiful kinds indis- 

 pensable to a fine collection, but of delicate or uncertain 

 constitution. List E is to a large extent a list for the 

 future rather than for the present. It comprises a 

 number of exceedingly fine varieties from among the 

 newer seedlings, many of which are not yet in com- 

 merce, the others being still scarce and most of them 

 very expensive. They are all of them well worth 

 purchasing, when they can be obtained, and will almost 

 certainly in the course of time supersede a number of 

 the standard varieties which are now highly valued. 

 In the first four lists numbers from one to six are added 

 in brackets after each name to show roughly the relative 

 time of flowering. I think they will be found fairly 

 correct and a useful guide. 



THE FIVE LISTS. 



A. — Thirty-seven cheap and very good varieties of 

 which only a very few are at all uncertain in con- 

 stitution. 



Daffodils. 



Golden Spur. — A large flower of deep rich self-yellow 

 and beautiful form, very early ; of rather uncertain con- 



