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both fine red-crimsons; Alexander Adie and Atrosan- 

 guineum, good crimsons, inclining to blood-colour ; 

 Alarm, rosy-scarlet ; and Biancbi, pure pink. 



2. Light scarlet rose colours inclining to salmon, a 

 most desirable range of colour, but of which the only 

 ones I know well are Mrs. R. S. Holford, and a much 

 older kind, Lady Eleanor Cathcart. These I put by 

 themselves, only allowing rather near them the good 

 pink BianchL 



3. Rose colours inclining to amaranth. 



4. Amaranths or magenta-crimsons. 



5. Crimson or amaranth-purples. 



6. Cool clear purples of the typical pontieum class, 

 both dark and light, grouped with lUac-whites, such as 

 Albv/m elegans and Album grandijlorum. The beauti- 

 ful partly-double Uverestianum comes into this group, 

 but nothing redder among purples. Fastiu)sum flore- 

 pleno is also admitted, and Luciferum and Eeine Hor- 

 tense, both good lilac-whites. But the purples that 

 are most effective are merely pontieum seedlings, chosen 

 when in bloom in the nursery for their depth and rich- 

 ness of cool purple colour. 



My own space being limited, I chose three of the 

 above groups only, leaving out, as of colouring less 

 pleasing to my personal liking, groups 3, 4, and 5. 

 The remaining ones gave me examples of colouring the 

 most widely different, and at the same time the most 

 agreeable to my individual taste. It would have been 

 easier, if that bad been the object, to have made groups 



